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Former Army Major Dan Byles, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for North Warwickshire and Bedworth, today welcomed the decision of the Borough Council to fly the new Armed Forces Flag above Nuneaton Town Hall to mark the launch of Armed Forces Week.

Former soldier Dan Byles, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for North Warwickshire & Bedworth, today welcomed a partial Government U-turn over compulsory Identity Cards, but urged the Home Secretary to go further.

Former Army Major Dan Byles, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for North Warwickshire and Bedworth, today joined Joanna Lumley in expressing his disgust over an alleged BNP leaflet entitled ‘The Gurkhas must leave.’

The Sun newspaper this week reported that thousands of copies of the shocking leaflet, which called for an end to what it called ‘…this illegal Gurkha immigration’, had been distributed by a BNP candidate in the forthcoming European elections.

The BNP pledges to ‘seek the removal of all non serving Gurkhas back to Nepal’, and to add insult to injury the leaflet features a photograph of fallen Gurkha hero Cpl Kumar Pun, who was recently killed in action in Afghanistan, with a large cross over his face.

Local pensioners this week met with Shadow Secretary of State Caroline Spelman to discuss the impact of the recession on retired people.