Wakefield MP Mary Creagh is to hold a parking summit in January to help people avoid being hit by unfair penalty charges.  Ms Creagh is taking action after receiving complaints from Wakefield residents about the unfair penalty charges issued in the city.  One resident living on disability benefits was fined £120 after pulling into the Smyth Street car park whilst suffering an angina attack. 

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Wakefield MP Mary Creagh joined Schools Secretary Ed Balls and Year 5 pupils from St Mary’s CofE Primary School on 11 December to launch a toolkit aimed at capturing young peoples’ views about their local parks, streets and squares.  Spaceshaper 9-14 was launched by the two MPs at Wakefield based arts and architecture organisation, Beam.  

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A Children's Nurse and the Chief of Wakefield Police have been honoured as Christmas Heroes by the Prime Minister and Wakefield MP Mary Creagh.  Ms Creagh invited them to a reception at Downing Street to recognise those unsung heroes who work hard in our communities throughout the Christmas period to deliver key public services. 

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Wakefield MP Mary Creagh held a prize giving ceremony for the winners and runners-up in her annual schools Christmas card competition at the Wakefield Theatre Royal this week.  The winning entry was designed by Karin Meskova, aged 10, from Lawefield Lane Primary School. Nearly 4000 copies of the card are being sent all over the world.   

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Mary Creagh is urging people across Wakefield to go online and back a new campaign to turn a promise to tackle global poverty into law.  

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More than 50 young people have started work thanks to Wakefield Council, its partners and the Government's Future Jobs Fund. Local MP Mary Creagh joined the Leader of the Council Cllr Peter Box and Chief Executive Joanne Roney at a reception at Wakefield Town Hall to welcome the new recruits on 3rd December.

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Mary Creagh MP is backing World AIDS DAY on 1st December to raise awareness of the plight of the more than 33 million people around the world living with HIV.  

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The Government launched an ambitious strategy to end violence against women and girls on 25 November. Wakefield MP Mary Creagh attended the launch and pledged her support for the new plans. She also lent her support to the White Ribbon Campaign to stop male violence against women.

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Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw visited Wakefield at Mary’s invitation on 19 November. He was given a tour of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Hepworth Gallery before visiting Lightwaves in the city centre.

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Mary visited Kirkgate station on 13 November to support police action to make the station safe.  

Security arches, which detect concealed weapons, have been deployed in special police operations in the city. Wakefield Police are working alongside the British Transport Police to operate the portable detectors which are similar to those used in airports.  

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Mary was joined by Schools Secretary Ed Balls at Wakefield City High on 13 November to find out how young people at the school are tackling online bullying. 

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Mary invited pupils and staff from Dane Royd Primary School to Parliament on Tuesday 10th November.  The children were in London to perform as part of the Wakefield Massed Choir at the Royal Albert Hall and visited parliament to meet Mary and look round the famous Palace of Westminster.  Mary asked the group to perform an extract from the song "Sun in Splendour" in Parliament and also attended the event at the Royal Albert Hall in the evening.

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Mary visited Gill Syke Bungalows at the invitation of constituent Kathleen Wigglesworth this week (6th November).  Mrs Wigglesworth invited Mary to see her new mobility ramp which, thanks to the MP's intervention, has finally been installed after a wait of two years. 

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Mary went on parking patrol with the local police and young people at St Mary's School, Charles Street on 23 October. Pupils from the school donned police uniforms and distributed road safety advice and leaflets to motorists around the school gates.

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Mary invited the Prime Minister to Wakefield at the end of October to see the work being done to tackle anti-social behaviour in the city.  Gordon Brown and Mary spoke to Wakefield's Neighbourhood Policing Teams and residents about their work in tackling nuisance crime. 

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Mary was on hand 17th October at the Wakefield Samaritans HQ to launch the new cookbook “Sweet or Savoury”. Mary contributed to the cookbook with her delicious recipe “Election Pasta”. Proceeds from the cookbook will go toward the upkeep of the Wakefield Centre.

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Wakefield volunteers Majid Sadiq and Jahangir Khan met the Prime Minister last week at 10 Downing Street.  Mary Creagh had nominated the pair to the Wakefield Express’ “Your Heroes” awards. She then invited them to the reception at No10 which was held to honour community heroes from across the country.

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Mary Creagh and Schools Secretary Ed Balls met with a deaf 17-year-old TV star at the Labour Party Conference this week, to find out about the barriers deaf young people face at school. The issue is important to Mary as she lost her hearing at the age of 27 due to otosclerosis - arthritis of the ear.

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Wakefield MP Mary Creagh visited a youth charity's street outreach programme this week to meet young people who will benefit from a Government cash boost to tackle anti-social behaviour.  She also met the new staff who have been employed by the Wakefield Youth Association to reach out to young people in the Wakefield district.

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Wakefield MP Mary Creagh has secured a substantial business rate reduction for local business Paregal Pianos.  Mary visited staff this week at the company's premises at Victoria Works, Benjamin Street, Wakefield WF2 9AR to celebrate the good news. 

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Mary Creagh MP launched a campaign to help ex-miners suffering with Miner’s Knee claim industrial injury benefit this week (10th August).  She visited former coal miner Joseph Marshall at his Wakefield home to explain the application process.  Joseph worked in the mines at Grimethorpe Colliery from June 1968 until the closure of the pit in May 1993.

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Wakefield MP Mary Creagh has welcomed moves by Metro and Network Rail to make significant progress in improving Kirkgate station. 

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On Friday 24th July Wakefield MP Mary Creagh went to Leigh Sports Village to learn how the local community came together to build a stadium.  The visit was organised by Ms Creagh with Andy Burnham MP who is Leigh’s local MP as well as Secretary of State for Health.  Plans for the Wildcats’ new stadium will be submitted over the summer and should go to planning committee in the autumn.

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Transport Secretary Lord Adonis visited Wakefield Kirkgate train station on Friday 24th July at the request of Wakefield MP Mary Creagh. He was met by local Labour councillors Ron Halliday, Ros Lund and Olivia Rowley, as well as Deputy Leader of Wakefield Council, Denise Jeffery.

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Mary Creagh MP visited Dane Royd School on Thursday 23rd July. The school had entered Ms Creagh’s Big Ben competition, to design a Christmas card celebrating 150 years of Big Ben.  She presented Big Ben pin badges and certificates to overall winner for Wakefield, Madeline Copley (aged 6) and age category winner Penelope Cross (aged 5).

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A 16-page leaflet for the public providing important information about swine flu is being distributed to health and community buildings around Kirklees.

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Mary Creagh, MP for Wakefield, met with local mosques and community organisations this week (23rd July) and encouraged them to register as charities.

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Wakefield MP Mary Creagh signed up to make a difference and improve the local community this week.  Mary joined pop mogul Pete Waterman and BBC Apprentice star Claire Young, to launch CSV’s Make a Difference Day.

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St George's Community Centre in Lupset, Wakefield, is looking forward to getting the builders in thanks to a cash boost of £200,000 from The Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT).  Mary Creagh, MP for Wakefield visited the centre this week (23rd July) to celebrate the news with the local community.

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Keri-Amber Foster of Shepley First School met with local MP Mary Creagh in Parliament this week.   Keri-Amber was a winner in the "Parliament and Big Ben Christmas Card Competition" which was launched by Wakefield MP Mary Creagh back in January 2009. 

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Wakefield MP Mary Creagh officially opened the city centre's brand new GP-led health centre this week.  She unveiled the plaque to the new facility on King Street, just behind the Town Hall on Friday 10th July.  

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Mary Creagh, MP for Wakefield welcomed students from Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield to Parliament this week - 7th July. The group were in Parliament to present their plan to help young people suffering with depression.

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Wakefield residents Peter and Jean Bowers have visited Downing Street as the guests of Mary Creagh MP.  Mr Bowers served in the British Armed Forces and was invited to meet the Prime Minister at an event in honour of British veterans and serving Armed Forces personnel.

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Mary Creagh and Environment Secretary Hilary Benn met this week (29th June) to talk about the UK plan to tackle climate change.  The UK Climate Projections 2009, released this month, will help Government plan and prepare for change to our climate in the UK.   The projections are the result of the latest climate science and provide detailed evidence of what changes to our climate may happen in the future.  

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On Friday 12th June Mary Creagh, MP for Wakefield, joined 13 Year old scald victim Holly Devonport at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield  to celebrate the success of the Hot Water Burns Like Fire campaign to reduce scalding injuries in the home.  

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