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European Parliament allowances. Martin filmed Adam signing the attendance book for a Friday session of the European Parliament, thereby claiming a daily allowance, before immediately leaving. Martin claimed that Adam tried to grab his video camera,
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After successful re-election Adam became vice-chairman of the Energy, Research and
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European Parliament to commission an independent investigation of the British government's decision to close 31 coal mines after the closure was announced in 1992. The investigation was significant because the European Commission needed to give approval for part of the
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was resigning his seat in the
European Parliament. Donnelly was the Leader of the Labour group and only 42 at the time; the Labour Party denied that there was an impending scandal. Under the European Parliament electoral system, Adam became first in line to replace him. Adam duly returned to the
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region, a position which made it almost impossible for him to be elected. As expected he lost his seat when the Labour Party won only three seats in the region. He wrote to the local newspaper after the election to thank those who had worked with him. He retired to give more time to his work as
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nuclear recycling plant to be closed. He pointed to figures from the
Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland which found that Sellafield was responsible for only one per cent. of radioactivity in Ireland, and went on to "award the star prize for political humbuggery to the Irish, to the
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later that year, recalling his first election in 1964 when he called for investment in the region's roads; Adam believed a regional authority would unlock investment held back by
Whitehall. In 2006 he criticised the group of Labour MPs who had called for
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in public but felt that party policy failed to take account of practicalities: he was quoted in early 1982 as saying that his constituents were more interested in learning what would happen to the sheepmeat regime. However, in the
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In 1983 he was chosen to head an inquiry into how the United
Kingdom proposed to spend its budget rebate on energy projects. Adam was prepared to support the Labour Party policy of withdrawal from the
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inhabitants of the
Emerald Isle". He became the Labour group agriculture spokesman and was critical of the group of Welsh farmers who had given evidence during an inquiry into the
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to take the same course. In June 1981 he presented a report on behalf of the
Committee on Energy and Research which called for the development of a computer translation system.
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knocking Martin off his feet and on to the floor. Adam denied the claim and attacked Martin's methods.
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closure programme. Early in 1995 Adam signed a joint letter in defence of
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Borough Council; when that council was succeeded by
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