Local MP Kevin Foster and the Herald Express have had a fantastic response in collecting signatures for the petition to save the direct train routes run by CrossCountry Trains from the North of England to the Bay.
CrossCountry Trains are proposing to cut our direct service by 70% in 2017,
Local MP Kevin Foster today met with Veterans Minister Earl Howe at the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall.
Since he was elected in May 2015, Kevin has been representing the brave Normandy Veterans of Torbay in their quest to be awarded the Legion d'Honneurs that they were promised from the French Go
The Department for Transport and Network Rail has today written to local MP Kevin Foster to confirm that substantial investment will be delivered to Torquay Train Station, under the Access for All Scheme.
In barely 2 days, Kevin's team and the Herald Express have already obtained over 500 signatures from local people and commuters on our petition, objecting to the proposed 70% cut in our direct train services from Manchester and the Midlands to the Bay.
Today, local MP Kevin Foster has ste
Kevin's team have been out in the Bay today, collecting signatures for the petition to save our CrossCountry rail services.
We have spoken to commuters getting on and getting off affected services at Torquay station, and have been met with an overwhelmingly negative response to CrossCountry's propo
This afternoon, local MP Kevin Foster chaired a meeting at Westminster with CrossCountry Trains CEO Andy Cooper, and their Head of Communications Richard Gibson.
He was joined by Richard Cuming from the English Riviera Tourism Company, Anne Marie Morris MP and staff, and a representative from
With Torbay and the South West once again cut off by rail this week following severe storms, local MP Kevin Foster raised the issue with Theresa May at PMQs.
This week the South West Region’s MPs came together with local councils and businesses to support the launch of the Peninsula Rail Force repo
Earlier today, local MP Kevin Foster spoke during a Westminster Hall debate on the South-West Growth Charter.
The new charter is a collaboration between businesses, public sector partners and Local Enterprise Partnerships that will be focusing on achieving growth in the South West.
Kevin praised t
Torbay MP Kevin Foster has just raised in the House of Commons proposals from Cross Country Trains to cut direct services between Manchester and Birmingham and the Bay by up to 70% in 2017.
Kevin feels that this would badly impact on welcoming visitors to the Bay, and would be harmful to our local
Local MP Kevin Foster was dismayed to be told that seven Poppy Appeal boxes were stolen around Torquay over Remembrance Day Weekend.
The thefts occurred between Friday 11th November and Monday 14th November, at a time when we should all have been paying our respects to the fallen and honouring our
