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Charles Horton, MD of Southeastern Trains, will meet rail pasengers at Sittingbourne Station on 6th June 2008 at 7.30am; Derek will be in attendance

12th-18th May 2008

Web site sets new record (12.05.08)
This web site has sent a number of new records over the past few months since its imaginative redesign by Andy Hudson; over 100,000 pages accessed in one week and last week over 21,000 unique visitors!

Busy weekend for MP (12.05.08)
Derek was out in the patch all day on Friday including meetings at the Healthy Living Centre, Sheerness alongside Jonathan Shaw MP, Minister for the SE and then later he presented the prizes at Oak Athletic FC's U7s-U10s annual awards evening. On Saturday, he attended the Sittingbourne Orpheus Choral Society's performance of Handel's Saul (not an easy piece by any means) whilst on Sunday he was back on duty at the Sheppey Sunday League's League Cup where The Entertainers beat Fulston Zebras Reserve team 2-0.

5th-11th May 2008
 
Barack all set to win nomination (07.05.08)
It looks as though Barack Obama has won the nomination to lead the Democrats in the Presidential elections as he took North Carolina easily and just lost Indiana; for the sake of America and the rest of the world, Hillary Clinton must do the decent thing and stand down.

MP donates £100 to SSAFA (06.05.08)
Derek has today donated £100 to Brian Lyons at SSAFA for a fee he received for an interview.

New record for web site (05.05.08)
There were 21,624 unique visitors to this site last week, a new record which alongside its sister site www.derekwyatt.tv , has been entered for the New Statesman award; see www.newstatesman.com

Daily Mirror interview (05.05.08)
Derek was interviewed by the Daily Mirror for tomorrow's paper about last week's local elections.


Web Sites
In 2006, this site won the New Statesman Award for Best Elected Representative and in 2007, it won the inaugural British Computer Society's award for "Engagement". Derek has another web site at www.derekwyatt.tv

What do you think?

In all elections would you support a move to ensure a winning candidate receives 50% plus 1 of all votes cast locally - this would mean changing the existing first past the post scheme to one where voters ranked their choice?

Weekly Blog 5th-11th May 2008

Bank Holiday, Westminster, Sittingbourne, Sheerness, Oak FC, Orpheus Concert & Sittingbourne FC

Monday’s Bank Holiday was quiet though I did one interview with the Daily Mirror and then refused another with Radio5Live as they wanted me between 11pm and midnight. I am hoping that Barack Obama will win the North Carolina and Indiana primaries tomorrow.

I had my heart checked at St Thomas’s Hospital conveniently across the...



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