{"id":520367,"date":"2010-04-08T07:08:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=12041"},"modified":"2010-04-08T07:08:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:08:04","slug":"worcester-news-hosts-election-debate-21st-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520367","title":{"rendered":"Worcester News hosts Election Debate, 21st April"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\"photo<\/a><\/p>\n
photo by Andrew Brown, BBC Hereford and Worcester<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Do you live in Worcester? Do you care about what your potential future MP thinks about climate change or international development? Then you should get yourself a ticket to the election hustings hosted by the Worcester News<\/a> on Wednesday, 21st April.<\/p>\n

Worcester News is giving 100 readers the chance to quiz candidates from the three main parties at a Question Time-style event at Worcestershire County Cricket Club’s Graeme Hick Pavilion, starting at 7:30pm.<\/p>\n

The debate will be chaired by Worcester News editor\u00a0Kevin Ward.\u00a0Conservative candidate Robin Walker<\/a>, Labour candidate Mike Foster<\/a> and Liberal\u00a0Democrat candidate Jackie Alderson<\/a> will be taking questions from the audience.<\/p>\n

You should get yourself there! To do that you need to apply for tickets and you will then be asked to submit a question. Why not Ask the Climate Question<\/a>?<\/p>\n

To see the full article from the Worcester News, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

How to get a ticket<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Worcester News says that ticket applications must be made via email\u00a0to election@worcesternews.co.uk<\/a> by 15th April.<\/p>\n

To apply for tickets you must be eligible to vote in the Worcester parliamentary constituency.<\/p>\n

Your email application must include your name and<\/em> full address<\/em> and a daytime telephone number<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You must tell us\u00a0the Worcester News if\u00a0you are a member of a political party and how you intend to vote in the General Election.<\/p>\n

(The above information will be used for audience selection purposes only and will not be published.)<\/p>\n

Include in your email the question you would like to ask at the Election Debate. The most popular or pertinent questions will be put to the panel of candidates, who will not be informed of the questions in advance.<\/p>\n

Successful ticket applicants and those selected to ask questions will be informed via an email from Kevin Ward, the Editor of the Worcester News.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Oxfam’s issues before you go<\/strong><\/p>\n

Want to find out more about Oxfam’s issues or take action in Worcester during the run up to the election? Then check out Oxfam’s dedicated election webpage: www.oxfam.org.uk\/election<\/a> and get inspired!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

photo by Andrew Brown, BBC Hereford and Worcester Do you live in Worcester? Do you care about what your potential future MP thinks about climate change or international development? Then you should get yourself a ticket to the election hustings hosted by the Worcester News on Wednesday, 21st April. Worcester News is giving 100 readers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}