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Article: It was one single clerical error ... MP apologises after his attempt to reclaim a pounds 5 donation is uncovered.
- Article from:
- Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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Byline: NAOMI CORRIGAN
naomi.corrigan@eveninggazette.co.uk A STOCKTON MP made a humiliating apology today over his attempts to reclaim a pounds 5 donation made at a Battle of Britain memorial service.
Frank Cook says it was a "clerical error" and the House of Commons Fees Office was "entirely right" to have rejected the claim.
But many people across Teesside refuse to accept his explanation for the alleged blunder made after the Royal British Legion church service in Stockton in 2006.
Fellow Labour supporter and Stockton councillor Bob ...