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MARK Jenkinson MP has been delivering festive hampers to veterans again this week for the fourth consecutive Christmas.

The MP first started distributing the gift bags in December 2020 as a way of thanking former armed forces personnel for their service.

MARK Jenkinson MP has launched a campaign to stop a second planned council tax hike across Cumbria.

No sooner had Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness council taken over in April, they voted for an increase – and they are proposing to do the same thing early next year. 

Mark Jenkinson MP has distributed thousands of books to children across his constituency for a fourth consecutive Christmas.

This year’s festive offering is the popular classic A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ famous story of an old miser visited by four ghosts.

MARK Jenkinson MP has asked Sir Keir Starmer and the leader of Cumberland Council to put on record their support for West Cumbria’s new coking coal mine.

The Curtain Has Only Just Gone Up

"SOME people say that local government reform isn't working for Cumbria - but the truth is it isn't finished, the curtain has only just gone up.

MARK Jenkinson MP is calling on Cumbria’s two unitary authorities to formally request a boundary review for the Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness councils, in the hope of restoring the Cumberland boundary to something more closely matching the historic counties.

MARK Jenkinson MP has called for urgent action to reopen Cockermouth amid claims Cumberland Council is “killing” the town in the run up to Christmas.

His comments come seven weeks after the partial collapse of the Old Courthouse forced the closure of a major road into the town.

MARK Jenkinson MP has welcomed the opening Maryport’s first Banking Hub today (24th November) which he has helped to secure.

The age-old saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" has never been more relevant than in today's debate on a generational smoking ban.

MARK Jenkinson MP has welcomed news that railway ticket offices across the Workington constituency will remain open.