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Andrew Mitchell MP has met with Royal Town student, Saoirse Martin-Canning, to congratulate her upon being elected to the Youth Parliament for a term of two years.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell MP has met the Executive Director of Allies Network, a West Midlands based community support organisation established in 2008 which provides culturally sensitive support for those at risk - or have been a victim – of female genital mutilation (FGM).  read more »

Andrew Mitchell MP has received the Royal Town’s Mayor, Councillor David Pears, for the annual Sutton Coldfield Mayoral visit to the Palace of Westminster.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell MP has, alongside five other Conservative West Midlands MPs, written to the Police and Crime Commissioner, raising “grave concern” at the proposals to close down Police Stations across the West Midlands - Sutton Coldfield’s own Police Station is being threatened with closure.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell MP is spearheading a cross-party campaign to toughen up the sanctions regime against dictators and human rights abusers from around the world. The cross-party campaign comes after the former Prime Minister, David Cameron, admitted that he regretted not introducing the “Magnitsky Act”.  read more »

The Royal Town’s MP, along with Cllr. Margaret Waddington MBE, has visited Holland House School’s Year 2 class to learn more about their ‘OutRight’ Campaign in collaboration with the charity UNICEF which aims raise awareness of children’s rights as set out by the UN Convention on the Rights of Children and the wider rights of refugee children.  read more »

The motions to be debated in the first round of the annual Royal Sutton Coldfield Schools’ Parliamentary Debating Competition have been revealed today.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell’s speech in the debate on the Second Reading of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell MP has lambasted the West Midlands Police & Crime Commissioner for his “outrageous” proposals to sell off its key Sutton Coldfield site to raise money to plug a funding gap.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell MP was the guest speaker at the Sutton Coldfield Chambers of Commerce Speaker’s Breakfast and delivered the keynote speech.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell MP has met with Vodafone to discuss the growth of the digital economy in Sutton Coldfield. During the meeting, Vodafone’s expansion plans for 4g coverage in Sutton Coldfield were made clear and it is expected that the Royal Town will have near-universal 4G coverage by 2020.  read more »

Mr Mitchell has met with Mark Meredith, the Operations Director of Area Eco, a not for profit community interest company which works in communities across the West Midlands providing practical advice to people and third sector organisations to reduce their energy costs.  read more »

Sutton Coldfield MP Andrew Mitchell presents the Business of the Year Awards at the second annual Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield & Tamworth Chambers’ New Year Business Dinner and Awards.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell MP, in his role as President of the Sutton Coldfield Sea Cadets, has attended the annual Presentation Evening which celebrates all that has been achieved by the cadets over the past year.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell MP has visited Maney Hill Children’s Home in Sutton Coldfield for youngsters with ‘challenging behaviours’.  read more »

The community in Falcon Lodge came together for an afternoon of discussion about the future of the estate on Friday 12 January.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell has thanked the Trustees of the Sutton Coldfield Charitable Trust on behalf of the Royal Town for all the hard work that the Trust does throughout the year.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell MP returned this week from a sobering three-day visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina to mark the genocide in Srebrenica, the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell MP for Royal Sutton Coldfield, met with BookTrust, the UK’s largest children’s reading charity on Friday 8th of December.  read more »

Andrew Mitchell MP has met with former Sutton Cottage Hospital Nurses, some of whom had worked at the hospital for more than 30 years, to discuss his campaign to revitalise the Sutton Cottage Hospital which once provided ‘in patient’ care but currently serves as a limited care outlet.  read more »