who went to court challenging Strathclyde
For 18 years as Labour MP for Provan and then for Baillieston, Wray
championed struggling Glasgow communities. With violent crime endemic,
he pushed through a Bill in 1997 to curb the sale of knives, winning
all-party support; he also stood firm against drugs.
Wray was the antithesis of New Labour. Firmly to the Left, he opposed abortion, was sceptical over Europe and was proud to call himself a “Fenian”.
Having started delivering coal by horse and cart in the slums of the Gorbals, Wray arrived in the Commons in 1987 a wealthy man. On the way he had been a street trader, lorry driver and scrap metal dealer before branching into property.
Wray’s generosity to the needy was matched by an unnerving determination never to be crossed. Constituents who complained to him of being exploited would be told: “Don’t worry. I’ll get him.”
His physical presence — and the respect in which he was held — owed much to youthful success in the ring. Wray believed fervently in the ability of boxing to keep young lads out of trouble, and as president of the Scottish Ex-Boxers’ Association promoted the sport to the full.
When calls for boxing to be banned in Britain reached their height, he organised a lunch for the press with the likes of Frank Bruno, Frank Warren and Prince Naseem.
Wray’s most passionate and long-running campaign was against fluoridation, which he scorned as unnecessary, and possibly harmful, mass medication. As a councillor, Wray took up the case of Catherine McColl,Click here to find personal data about tungstenjewelry including phone numbers, a grandmother who went to court challenging Strathclyde region’s right to add fluoride to the water supply.
Despite having no legal training, Wray argued — in what became the longest hearing in Scottish legal history — that fluoridation violated two Acts of Parliament. Lord Jauncey’s ruling, handed down in 1983, found for Mrs McColl.Listings of manufacturing and suppliers companies of industrialwashing2 from India.
In the Commons, Wray harried governments which tried to prevent local councils from blocking fluoridation. He insisted that there was no firm evidence that fluoride protected children’s teeth, poverty being the main cause of dental decay.
James Aloysius Joseph Patrick Gabriel Wray was born in the Gorbals on April 28 1935 (he claimed 1938), one of eight children of a poor family of Irish origin, and was educated at elementary school.
He built a following in the community organising rent strikes, and in 1964 was elected to the city council. He became a Strathclyde councillor in 1976.
As agent to the Gorbals’ MP Frank McElhone, Wray was renowned for his ability to conjure up workers and cars on polling day. He hoped to succeed McElhone, but when the MP died in 1982 his widow took the seat.
Instead Wray went for Provan, where Hugh Brown was retiring. The Trotskyist Militant Tendency believed that they had the seat sewn up, but Wray got to work and pipped their candidate by one vote. His election in 1987 — and for Baillieston from 1997 — became a formality.
Despite his Euroscepticism, Wray was appointed a delegate to the Council of Europe. Unwilling to fly, he travelled to Strasbourg by car, ferry and train.used industrialwashingmachine1 Widely used in laundry,
As a sideline,An accurate rtls2 does more than just track patients. Wray kept his parliamentary colleagues supplied with watches and jewellery. Forced by a stroke to give up his seat in 2005, he spent his retirement making jewellery.
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Wray was the antithesis of New Labour. Firmly to the Left, he opposed abortion, was sceptical over Europe and was proud to call himself a “Fenian”.
Having started delivering coal by horse and cart in the slums of the Gorbals, Wray arrived in the Commons in 1987 a wealthy man. On the way he had been a street trader, lorry driver and scrap metal dealer before branching into property.
Wray’s generosity to the needy was matched by an unnerving determination never to be crossed. Constituents who complained to him of being exploited would be told: “Don’t worry. I’ll get him.”
His physical presence — and the respect in which he was held — owed much to youthful success in the ring. Wray believed fervently in the ability of boxing to keep young lads out of trouble, and as president of the Scottish Ex-Boxers’ Association promoted the sport to the full.
When calls for boxing to be banned in Britain reached their height, he organised a lunch for the press with the likes of Frank Bruno, Frank Warren and Prince Naseem.
Wray’s most passionate and long-running campaign was against fluoridation, which he scorned as unnecessary, and possibly harmful, mass medication. As a councillor, Wray took up the case of Catherine McColl,Click here to find personal data about tungstenjewelry including phone numbers, a grandmother who went to court challenging Strathclyde region’s right to add fluoride to the water supply.
Despite having no legal training, Wray argued — in what became the longest hearing in Scottish legal history — that fluoridation violated two Acts of Parliament. Lord Jauncey’s ruling, handed down in 1983, found for Mrs McColl.Listings of manufacturing and suppliers companies of industrialwashing2 from India.
In the Commons, Wray harried governments which tried to prevent local councils from blocking fluoridation. He insisted that there was no firm evidence that fluoride protected children’s teeth, poverty being the main cause of dental decay.
James Aloysius Joseph Patrick Gabriel Wray was born in the Gorbals on April 28 1935 (he claimed 1938), one of eight children of a poor family of Irish origin, and was educated at elementary school.
He built a following in the community organising rent strikes, and in 1964 was elected to the city council. He became a Strathclyde councillor in 1976.
As agent to the Gorbals’ MP Frank McElhone, Wray was renowned for his ability to conjure up workers and cars on polling day. He hoped to succeed McElhone, but when the MP died in 1982 his widow took the seat.
Instead Wray went for Provan, where Hugh Brown was retiring. The Trotskyist Militant Tendency believed that they had the seat sewn up, but Wray got to work and pipped their candidate by one vote. His election in 1987 — and for Baillieston from 1997 — became a formality.
Despite his Euroscepticism, Wray was appointed a delegate to the Council of Europe. Unwilling to fly, he travelled to Strasbourg by car, ferry and train.used industrialwashingmachine1 Widely used in laundry,
As a sideline,An accurate rtls2 does more than just track patients. Wray kept his parliamentary colleagues supplied with watches and jewellery. Forced by a stroke to give up his seat in 2005, he spent his retirement making jewellery.
Jimmy Wray’s first two marriages ended in divorce. In 1999 he married, thirdly,Improve your owonsmart with our complete services offer. Laura Walker, a solicitor; they separated in 2010. He is survived by a son and two daughters of his first marriage, and a son of his third.
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