My Views

March 19th, 2023
Written by John Grogan

My eight Sunday night takeaways!
 

February 12th, 2023
Written by John Grogan

🎭 I began the week at a meeting at Keighley Creative which is a charity based currently on Cooke Lane in the heart of the town. We discussed how best to take arts provision forward in the area. The aim is to get a permanent building so Keighley and Ilkley Constituency can take full advantage of Bradford City of Culture. 

February 11th, 2023
Written by John Grogan

PRESS RELEASE

Keighley is a proud manufacturing town with many medium and small employers still very much the backbone of the local economy. This week is National Apprenticeship Week. On Friday I attended the Labour Party Northern Skills Conference in Heckmondwike with Lord David Blunkett as the main speaker. My friends Hugh Goulbourne and Kim Leadbeater MP for Batley and Spen organised the event.

January 11th, 2023
Written by John Grogan and Anna Dixon

PRESS RELEASE

John Grogan Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Keighley and Ilkley and Anna Dixon Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Shipley have warned that there could be big bus cuts in the Spring across Bradford if the Government fails to renew grant funding due to run out by the end of March.

January 8th, 2023
Written by John Grogan

PRESS RELEASE

John Grogan told a coffee morning of the Ilkley Women’s Labour Group at the Outside the Box cafe in Ilkley that the average wage in Keighley and Ilkley Constituency had fallen in real terms after inflation by £1388 or 4.3% since 2010. The figure is based on Labour Party analysis of Office of National Statistics Data.

January 1st, 2023
Written by John Grogan

Valley Parade was the place to be on New Year’s Day to see Bradford record back to back victories! In a pulsating battle of the roses the Bantams beat Salford 3-2. Before the Christmas break they had not won at home since Liz Truss was Prime Minister ! Mind you the top sporting fixture to look forward to in Keighley in 2023 has to be Keighley Cougars v Bradford Bulls on Sunday March 26th. Meanwhile here are ten things I will be working on in 2023 - more to come on each of them in the coming weeks: