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Issue:- 27 March 2014

Royal opening for new maritime welfare centre

A multi-million pound development to build state of the art new welfare facilities for former seafarers is to be  formal opened, with an event that will be conduct by the HRH The Princess Royal, in Wallasey, Merseyside, on Friday, 4 April 2014.

The Trinity House Hub at the Mariners' Park Estate, operated by the Nautilus Welfare Fund, who are a registered charity administered by the maritime professionals' union Nautilus International.  The new facilities include a café, a spa, a gym and rooms for meetings and hobbies, along with 18 fully accessible apartments for older seafarers and their dependants.

The £4m plus project marks a further phase of an ongoing development programme at the 16 acre Mariners' Park Estate which began more than a decade ago with the building of a new care home and has included a wide range of new residential facilities. The largest donor to the project was Trinity House, of which the Princess Royal is the master.

Sadly for Royal fans, the event will be for guest and staff only.  No admittance to the event or the site will be possible.

Southport MEP Chris Davies has been denied access to Gaza by the Israeli authorities.

THE Liberal Democrat politician, who is leading a cross-party delegation of MEPs in Palestine, had intended to meet with officials from the UN Relief and Works Agency to discuss the use of EU money on humanitarian projects in the Gaza Strip.

Israel has severely restricted access to the 1.7 million people of Gaza since 2007 in what has been described as an exercise in collective punishment after supporters of Hamas took control.

Exports from the territory have virtually ceased since then and economic activity has been strangled.

UNRWA receives more than €100 million annually from the European Union, much of which is spent on emergency food distribution and the provision of education within Gaza.

Israel claims that the MEPs from the European Parliament's delegation on Palestine through the Erez crossing would not be solely concerned with humanitarian matters,

But the allegation has been strongly refuted by Davies, who says that Israel's closure of the Gaza Strip is in breach of international law.

Davies said:- "Israel has inflicted an economic catastrophe upon the people of Gaza and the humanitarian consequences are well known.  Instead of preventing MEPs assessing where European taxpayers' money is being put to good use the Israeli authorities should be hugely grateful for the EU's efforts.  The Geneva Convention makes clear that Israel is responsible for the well-being of the people under its control and occupation, but the EU is paying bills that are rightly Israel's responsibility."

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