All Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group has celebrated its 3^rd anniversary in style by holding a celebration in the world famous Strangers' bar in the Houses of Parliament, welcoming a specially brewed 'Save the Pub Ale' by local brewers, Ilkley Brewery, who brewed the beer in recognition of the work of the Save the Pub Group over the past three years in preserving and protecting the Great British pub.

Member of Parliament for Leeds North West Greg Mulholland was among a group of politicians, teachers and school children at a parliamentary launch of the British Red Cross's Pupil, Citizen, Lifesaver initiative in Westminster.

The British Red Cross is campaigning for first aid and humanitarian education to be given a secure place on the national curriculum to equip young people with the skills to help in the event of emergencies ranging from the collapse of a friend to the aftermath of an earthquake.

Member of Parliament for Leeds North West Greg Mulholland has written to Leeds City Council demanding a full explanation for the ongoing spate of missed green bin collections, with a number of streets across the constituency going for weeks at a time without refuse collections. This follows previous attempts by the Council to dodge questions on the issue.

Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Leeds North West, Greg Mulholland, has welcomed the news that a number of local children who had been refused places in an Otley schools, as a result of a shortage of space, will now be placed in one of the towns five primary schools.

A notable number of local children had been refused places in primary schools in the Otley and were instead offered places in schools a considerable distance from their local community. Greg Mulholland criticised Leeds City Council for a lack of forward planning and called on them to urgently deal with the problem to ensure that children from the town are placed in local schools.

Greg Mulholland, Member of Parliament for Leeds North West, today visited Metal Cabinets LTD in Yeadon and also it's sister company, Jackson's Coatings LTD.

Mr Mulholland was shown around the site of the Yeadon based manufacturers and suppliers of metal cabinets by Managing Director Nigel Stacey who also explained how the plant operated before introducing the Member of Parliament to Managing Director of Jackson's Coating LTD, Mr Gary Jackson who proceeded to give a tour of the paintwork element of the company.

Local MP, Greg Mulholland, has today welcomed the news that the Otley Methodist pre-school has secured a new home for next year at the Cross Green Community and Youth Centre, which means the school can re-open its doors once again in September, as the Bright Ideas pre-school. Greg was part of a team looking to find a resolution to the problem when the school was faced with the very real prospect of being without a home, following the decision to move it from the Methodist hall.

Greg Mulholland, MP for Leeds North West, has met with 14 year old constituent and disabled rights champion Nathan Popple to discuss the future of wheelchair accessibility in Leeds.

Nathan, who attends Ralph Thoresby High School in Holt Park, has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. Earlier this year, frustrated at being unable to access a Leeds bowling alley due it having steps, Nathan set up a website called accessibleleeds.com in which he charts the accessibility of venues in Leeds.

Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Leeds North West, co-chair of Ageing and Older People's APPG and former Lib Dem older peoples spokesperson, Greg Mulholland, has welcomed a number of measures announced in the Queen's Speech, which was delivered to both Houses this morning, outlining the Governments plans for the year ahead. Greg has in particular welcomed the Draft Care and Support Bill, the Energy Bill, House of Lords Reform Bill and the Crime and Courts Bill.

Department for Communities and Local Government Minister, Grant Shapps has today welcomed Otley's bid to become a Portas Pilot, following a letter from Local Member of Parliament Greg Mulholland, who wrote to the Minister outlining the strengths of Otley's applicaition for the national competition.

Mary Portas and the Local Government Minister, Grant Shapps, launched the competition in February to choose 12 towns to become "Portas Pilots", the winners will benefit from a share of £1million to help turn around their "unloved and unused" high streets. The recipients of the grants will be announced later this month. Following the huge number of applications, the number of pilots have now been doubled to 24.

Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Leeds North West Greg Mulholland, has today, following further power cuts over the weekend in Otley, written to Ofgem, the regulator for the electricity and gas market in the UK, accusing Northern Power Grid of a 'breach of duty and called for an investigation into why the infrastructure in place in Otley has been allowed to become so unreliable. Mr Mulholland has also called on Northern Power Grid to compensate businesses that have lost trade as a result of the power cuts.