Sports Minister Helen Grant and Prospective Conservative MP Maggie Throup visited Long Eaton United FC to find out how a recent Sport England grant had helped to transform the club.

Environment Secretary Liz Truss joined Erewash Conservative Prospective MP, Maggie Throup, to meet members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society who have been bidding for funds to restore part of the canal and the link with the Erewash Canal in Sandiacre.

Ongoing concerns about new Ilkeston Station have been taken to the top by Prospective MP for Erewash, Maggie Throup when she raised the delays announced early January with the Secretary of State for Transport.

Maggie Throup, Prospective MP for Erewash has welcomed new figures showing that the Conservatives’ Help to Buy scheme is helping families to achieve their dream of buying their own home.

Local campaigners have been left dismayed after Derbyshire County Council announced that it is to scale back plans for Ilkeston’s new train station.

Sunday 14th December 2014 was the day the first train in over 40 years was planned to stop for passengers at the new, publicly funded, Ilkeston Station. To mark the occasion, Prospective MP for Erewash, Maggie Throup; together with Jessica Lee MP and a group of local campaigners came together to ask Derbyshire County Council: ‘Where’s Our Station?’. 

Local campaigner and Prospective MP for Erewash Maggie Throup has called on Labour-run Derbyshire County Council to stop playing politics with Ilkeston’s new train station after the authority announced further delays to the project.

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Erewash Conservatives have chosen Midlands businesswoman, Maggie Throup, to contest the Erewash seat at the 2015 General Election.

Report from Council Leader on the Erewash Budget 2014/15