Christine Oddy MEP

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Christine Oddy
FORMER MEP

[28 FEB 01] FORMER MEP ODDY TO STAND FOR PARLIAMENT

Former Coventry MEP Christine Oddy is to continue her battle against her old party by standing against city MP Geoffrey Robinson at the next election. MORE

[16 JUN 99] ODDY JOINS CATHEDRAL APPEAL

Fundraisers at Coventry Cathedral have been staggered by the enormous response to an appeal to raise £1 million to keep the historic building afloat. The idea of inviting people to pledge £1,000 to have either their name engraved on a glass screen in a new chapel has clearly caught the imagination. MORE

[25 MAY 99] ODDY SUPPORTS ANIMAL WELFARE STANDARDS

Christine Oddy MEP will be signing a giant ballot slip to pledge her support for improved standards of farm animal welfare on 25 May in Birmingham in response to an appeal by Compassion in World Farming. MORE

[21 MAY 99] ODDY OPPOSES WELFARE CUTS FOR DISABLED

Christine Oddy MEP has today pledged support to the twelve major disability organisations who have resigned from the Government's Disability Benefits Forum in protest at the Government's Welfare Reform Bill and its devastating impact on disability benefits for disabled people. MORE

[12 MAY 99] ODDY SUPPORTS DISABLED PEOPLE DO IT WEEK

Christine Oddy, MEP for Coventry and North Warwickshire, will be supporting Coventry City Council Disabled People Do It Week 1999. MORE

[11 MAY 99] ODDY TO ATTEND PROVOST'S BREAKFAST EVENT

Euro MP Christine Oddy has been invited to attend the Coventry Cathedral Provost' s Breakfasts - the series of events where guest speakers look back at what they see as the key events of the millennium and consider the challenges likely to be encountered during the next 1,000 years. MORE

[10 MAY 99] ODDY SLAMS LABOUR PARTY LUVVIES

Coventry and Warwickshire North MEP Christine Oddy has resigned from the Labour Party after slamming their selection of candidates for the next month's Euro elections. MORE

[07 MAY 99] TORY EURO MP BACKS ODDY

Christine Oddy was today given cross-party support in the wake of the announcement that the Labour Party has suspended her. MORE

[06 MAY 99] ODDY TO JOIN CATHEDRAL'S INTERNATIONAL BOARD

Euro MP Christine Oddy has been invited to join the Advisory Board for the Centre of International Reconciliation at Coventry Cathedral. MORE

[05 MAY 99] ODDY PILOTS MAJOR REPORT ON E-COMMERCE

Christine Oddy, MEP for Coventry and North Warwickshire, on behalf of the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee will be supporting moves by the Commission to establish a clear and comprehensive legal framework for the increasingly important field of electronic commerce and other information services. MORE

[28 APR 99] ODDY MARKS WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY

A new plaque dedicated to remembering the victims of industrial accidents will be unveiled by Coventry and North Warwickshire Euro MP Christine Oddy on Wednesday 28 April at 12 noon in the Peace Garden, outside Mandela House, Priory Street, Coventry. MORE

[27 APR 99] ODDY GIVES SPEECH AT E-COMMERCE CONFERENCE

Christine Oddy will be speaking on her European Parliament report on electronic commerce to key business people from the European Convergent Communications Network (which represents companies in publishing, entertainment banking and computing) at the Hilton Residence, 28 Square Amborix, Brussels, on Thursday 29 April. MORE

[26 APR 99] ODDY VISITS PATTISON ACADEMY

Family memories will come flooding back for Euro MP Christine Oddy when she visits the scene of her childhood ballet lessons next week. And there will be even more nostalgia for the Oddy family as Christine will be accompanied by her father Eric who took his first steps in ballroom dancing when he attended the Pattison school of dancing in the 1930s. MORE

[16 APR 99] TELECOMMUNICATIONS TALKS FOR ODDY

Coventry and North Warwickshire Euro MP Christine Oddy will share her expertise with leaders of Europe’s telecommunications industries at a discussion on the contribution they are making to the continent's digital future. MORE

[12 APR 99] ODDY VISITS STRASBOURG

Christine Oddy will be hosting her last visitors trip to the European Parliament in Strasbourg before the European election in June 1999. Forty constituents from the Coventry and North Warwickshire constituency will be following her work in Strasbourg on Tuesday 13 April. MORE

[26 MAR 99] CENTRAL AMERICA FILM DATE FOR ODDY

Euro MP Christine Oddy is off to the cinema today to see the highly-acclaimed film Carla’s Song, which is being screened in Birmingham as part of a month-long programme of events focusing on Central America. MORE

[19 MAR 99] ODDY TO REPORT ON E-COMMERCE

Coventry and North Warwickshire Euro MP Christine Oddy will be paying a visit to the City of London Corporation -- the governing body of the capitals 'Square Mile' - on Monday as part of her fact-finding mission for a key report she is writing for the European Parliament. MORE

[16 MAR 99] ODDY TO JOIN BNRR OPPONENT'S MEETING

Euro MP Christine Oddy is keeping up her opposition to the Birmingham Northern Relief Road, the privately financed motorway which will cut through the edge of her Coventry and North Warwickshire constituency. MORE

[11 MAR 99] MEPs BACK ENGLAND 2006 WORLD CUP CAMPAIGN

Labour MEPs have added their voice to the England 2006 World Cup Campaign after Sir Bobby Charlton and Sir Geoff Hurst visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday 10 March. MORE

[05 MAR 99] MEP'S BEER TREAT

West Midlands Euro MP Christine Oddy will visit Bass Brewery and Bass Museum today as part of her active involvement with the European Parliament's Beer Club. MORE

[09 FEB 99] ODDY CAMPAIGNS AGAINST ANIMAL TESTING

There'll be no mystery about one Valentine Day's card which Euro MP Christine Oddy is sending this year. For the Coventry and North Warwickshire MEP' s signature is firmly in place on the card which will soon be dropping through the letterbox of the European Commission. MORE

[05 FEB 99] MEP CALLS FOR RETURN OF SCHOOL MILK

Euro MP Christine Oddy is backing calls for the return of school milk and is urging local education authorities to take advantage of a European Union fund to help them do so. She has written to the leaders of Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Councils to remind them the EU Subsidised School Milk Scheme is available to cut the cost of supplying the drink to primary school children. MORE

[04 FEB 99] MEP TO REPORT ON SHOPPING ON THE WEB

Euro MP Christine Oddy is hard at work on a key report into one of Europe's latest and fast-growing developments - electronic commerce, often described as 'shopping on the web'. The rapid growth in buying and selling via the Internet has prompted the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee to appoint her to draw up the report which will form the basis of regulations to protect buyers and reputable traders from fraud. MORE

[04 FEB 99] ODDY VISITS MASSEY FERGUSON

Euro MP Christine Oddy will be taking a look at one of the leading industrial companies in her Coventry and North Warwickshire constituency on today when she visits Agco's Massey Ferguson plant. MORE

[03 FEB 99] ODDY URGES FIRM STAND IN BANANA WAR

Coventry and North Warwickshire Euro MP Christine Oddy is calling for Europe to stand firm in the ‘banana war’ where American pressure threatens to ruin the livelihoods of thousands of small-scale farmers in the Caribbean. MORE

[02 FEB 99] ODDY'S TWIN DATES WITH THE CHANCELLOR

Euro MP Christine Oddy will have two opportunities to put her views on the economy to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, when he visits Birmingham and Coventry on Friday (5 January). MORE

[01 FEB 99] EURO MP ODDY TAKES LABOUR TO TRIBUNAL

Christine Oddy is set to make history by becoming the first Euro MP to haul the Labour Party before an industrial tribunal. Miss Oddy, who has represented Coventry and North Warwickshire in Brussels for the last ten years, claims the Labour Party has effectively ended her political career under its new selection process for the June elections. MORE

[29 JAN 99] ODDY VISITS HAMS HALL

Euro MP Christine Oddy will take a look at progress on one of the biggest industrial and commercial developments in her Coventry and North Warwickshire constituency today when she visits Hams Hall. MORE

[27 JAN 99] ODDY WILL HELP DELEGATION PUT MIDLANDS FIRST

Coventry and North Warwickshire Euro MP Christine Oddy will be joining members of a top flight delegation from the West Midlands when they visit Brussels next week to press the region's case. MORE

[20 JAN 99] ODDY BACKS PEACE CAMPAIGNERS

[19 JAN 99] ODDY TO JOIN STOKE PARK SCHOOL CELEBRATIONS

[18 JAN 99] ODDY BACKS ANTI-RACIAL HARASSMENT PROGRAMME

[18 JAN 99] ODDY TO ATTEND INTERMEDIATE TECHNOLOGY OPENING

[15 JAN 99] ODDY TO ATTEND HATTER'S SPACE OPENING

[18 DEC 98] MORE HELP ON WAY FOR CENTRAL AMERICA

[18 DEC 98] ODDY CALLS FOR ACTION TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

[16 DEC 98] ODDY BACKS MOVES TO END DISCRIMINATION

[16 DEC 98] POLITICAL FUTURE UNCERTAIN FOR ODDY

[15 DEC 98] ODDY TO SEE PEUGEOT'S NEW SUCCEESS AT RYTON

[04 DEC 98] EURO MP WILL BE ASKED - WHO RUNS COVENTRY?

[03 DEC 98] EURO MP WILL ATTEND AMNESTY EVENTS