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Kevin Michael Hughes (15 December 1952 – July 16, 2006) was a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Labour Member of Parliament for Doncaster North from 1992 to 2005. He served as a government whip, and was previously a coal miner and official for the National Union of Mineworkers. December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal left wing political party in the United Kingdom. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ...
Doncaster North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Coal Coal (IPA: ) is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by underground mining or open-pit mining (surface mining). ...
The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ...
The National Union of Mineworkers is a trade union for coal miners in the United Kingdom. ...
Early and private life
Hughes was born in Doncaster, the son of a coal miner. He was educated at Owston Park secondary modern, and took up his father's profession in 1970. He remained a miner until 1990, but also attended University of Sheffield for three years under a day-release scheme. Statistics Population: 67,977 (2001 Census for Doncaster urban sub-area [1]) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE5702 Administration District: Doncaster Metropolitan county: South Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: South Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force...
The University of Sheffield is a leading university, located in Sheffield, UK. // History The University of Sheffield was originally formed by the merger of three colleges. ...
He married his wife, Lynda, in 1972. They had a son and a daughter together. His son joined the Army, and served in the 2003 Gulf War. He enjoyed golf and opera. For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ...
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The Teatro alla Scala in Milan. ...
Political career Originally a Communist,he joined the New Communist Party in 1977 but left to join the Labour Party in 1978. He served as a branch delegate and member of the Yorkshire area committee of the NUM. He was elected as a member of Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council in 1986, and elected to Parliament in the 1992 general election for the safe Labour seat of Doncaster North. As an MP, he was sponsored by the NUM, although the number of working coal pits in his constituency had been reduced from 6 to only 1. He campaigned on pit safety issues before the privatisation of British Coal in the early 1990s. This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ...
The New Communist Party of Britain is a communist political party in Britain. ...
The Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster is a metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. ...
The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ...
The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives. ...
Doncaster North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Privatization (sometimes privatisation, denationalization, or — especially in India — disinvestment) is the process of transferring property, from public ownership to private ownership. ...
British Coal was a former British corporation consisting of the assets of various coal mining firms which had been nationalised. ...
Despite allegations being made against him by fellow councillor Ron Rose, Hughes avoided blame in the "Donnygate" scandal, which resulted in 21 former member of Doncaster council being convicted for fraud offences, and he retained his seat in the House of Commons in 1997, despite being opposed by an "anti-fraud" candidate, and again in 2001. He became a whip for the opposition in 1996, and was a junior whip in the Labour government from 1997 to 2001. He vigorously supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Ron Rose is an American poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada. ...
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
(Redirected from 1997 UK general election) The 1 May 1997 UK general election brought the first change in UK Government for 18 years. ...
The United Kingdom general election of 7 June 2001 was dubbed as the quiet landslide by the media. ...
In politics, a whip is a member of a political party in a legislature whose task is to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ...
For other uses of the term, see Iraq war (disambiguation) The 2003 invasion of Iraq (also called the 2nd or 3rd Persian Gulf War) began on March 20, 2003, when forces belonging primarily to the United States and the United Kingdom invaded Iraq without the explicit backing of the United...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Hughes is renowned for his comment in Parliament about readers of The Guardian, many of whom support Labour, in support of new anti-terrorism legislation following the September 11, 2001 attacks: The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...
The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal left wing political party in the United Kingdom. ...
A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly...
- "Does my right hon. Friend find it bizarre—as I do—that the yoghurt and muesli-eating, Guardian-reading fraternity are only too happy to protect the human rights of people engaged in terrorist acts, but never once do they talk about the human rights of those who are affected by them?" [1]
Hughes stood down early from Parliament after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. Yoghurt or yogurt, or less commonly yoghourt or yogourt or even joghurt or jogurt (see spelling below), is a dairy product produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. ...
Muesli (originally (Bircher)müesli [myə̯s li] in Swiss German, Müsli [my:s li] in German) is a popular breakfast dish (breakfast cereal) based on uncooked rolled oats and fruit. ...
The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...
Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...
Terrorist redirects here. ...
The motor neurone diseases (MND) are a group of progressive neurological disorders that destroy motor neurones, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity such as speaking, walking, breathing, and swallowing. ...
The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ...
Michael Collins Welsh (born 23 November 1926) was British Labour MP for Don Valley from 1979 to 1983, and for Doncaster North from 1983 until his retirement in 1992. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ...
Doncaster North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Edward Samuel Miliband (born December 24, 1969, London) is a British economist and politician. ...
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