East Midlands Conservative MEP, Emma McClarkin, last week visited Long Eaton to see SARbot UK, a water rescue charity and the UK’s only underwater rescue service. The primary water rescue services, the fire service and RNLI are only trained and equipped to rescue individuals from the water surface and neither have any statutory responsibility to …Continue Reading

East Midlands Conservative MEP, Emma McClarkin, has written to Culture Secretary Maria Miller, sending what is effectively an alarm call to Whitehall over access to broadband technology. The letter, written jointly with 19 other Conservative MEPs, says that ensuring superfast connectivity quickly covers the whole of the UK is the best-value way of investing in …Continue Reading

Following concerns over new EU food hygiene legislation, East Midlands MEP Emma McClarkin has today sought to calm fears about the re-use of jam jars and other glass food containers. Concerns have recently been raised over EU legislation which bans the re-use of food containers which were not designed for re-use. The legislation is designed …Continue Reading