Diana Wallis MEP hosts Global Online Surgery on Digital Divide Diana Wallis MEP today hosted an online discussion on the Digital Divide involving participants from Finland, Spain, the USA and Senegal. Diana Wallis Condemns Closure of Local Police Stations Local Lib Dem Euro-MP Diana Wallis has expressed severe concern over the closure of local police stations in the region. Diana Wallis MEP gives support to �Pet Manifesto� As a result of research undertaken by MORI amongst Directline�s 100,000 pet insurance policy holders, the insurance company has launched the �pet manifesto� to highlight the primary issues which concern policy holders as pet owners. Euro-MP Welcomes Public Inquiry into Finningley Airport Diana Wallis, Lib Dem Euro-MP for Yorkshire, has welcomed today�s announcement that the Government will hold a Public Inquiry into proposals to turn Finningley Airport into and international terminal. Lib Dem MEP appalled at US rejection of Kyoto proposal Lib Dem MEP, Diana Wallis, has condemned the decision of the US government, under new President George W Bush, to drop the Kyoto Treaty on global warming. �Reform EU Agriculture Policy� says Yorkshire�s Lib Dem Euro MP on French TV Diana Wallis MEP represented Yorkshire�s farmers on French TV this week, taking part in the political affairs programme 2 pour 2 contre (translated as �2 for, 2 against�) to discuss agricultural reform. Yorkshire MEP at top table EU meeting Lib Dem Euro-MP Diana Wallis represented the European Parliament at a Foreign Ministers Council meeting this week and called on them to include Europe�s citizens in moves to increase cooperation in the Northern region of the continent.

William Hague to blame for Tory MPs racist speech � Diana Wallis    28/03/2001 Diana Wallis MEP has said that William Hague needs to take much of the blame for John Townend's widely condemned racist speech. Although William Hague has rebuked John Townend for the speech in support of the Tory candidate in East Yorkshire on March 16th, Diana Wallis, who has seen a copy of the speech and who first demanded action from William Hague to censure John Townend, says that the Tory leader himself instigated the MP's comments. Diana Wallis MEP says: "In John Townend's speech his opening reference is to Mr Hague's 'foreign land' speech from Harrogate a few days earlier and he clearly feels free to justify his totally racist comments in light of this. �At Harrogate Mr Hague opened up a Pandora's Box giving oxygen to the racist and homophobic element in the Tory Party. "Linked to this a couple of questions come to mind: Did the Tory party in East Yorkshire sit through this speech and warmly applaud and then put their hands in their pockets for Mr Townend? And what of the hapless Tory candidate who hopes to follow John Townend to Westminster? Clearly he supported the racist tone otherwise he would have condemned it in the same way his Party leader did eventually."