14-458: Warden Hill or Warden Hills may refer to: Warden Hill, Luton , a suburb of Luton Leckhampton with Warden Hill , civil parish in Gloucestershire, England Galley and Warden Hills , the hills which overlook Warden Hill, Luton Lincolnshire Wolds , a range of hills containing a hill called Warden Hill [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
28-402: A London Fire Brigade employee in the emergency planning department. Owen has been a political adviser to Alan Sugar and has worked on Labour's national small business policy. Owen was formerly a political officer for the trade union GMB and has been a member of Labour's National Executive Committee . She is chair of East and South East Asians for Labour. In 2011, Owen was chosen as
42-476: Is a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton North since 2019 . She is the first MP of South East Asian descent and the first female MP of Chinese descent. She served as Shadow Minister for Local Government and Faith from October 2022 to November 2023, having previously served as Shadow Minister for Homelessness, Rough Sleeping and Faith shadowing
56-515: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Warden Hill, Luton Warden Hill is a suburb of Luton , about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the town centre, in Bedfordshire , England. It is roughly bounded by Central Bedfordshire to the north; Enderby Road, the A6 and Weybourne Drive to the south; Birdsfoot Lane, Grasmere Road, Icknield Way, and
70-607: Is split between Bramingham and Icknield wards in Luton, and is represented by Cllr Gilbert Campbell ( Conservative ) and Cllr John Young (Conservative). The wards form part of the parliamentary constituency of Luton North and the MP is Sarah Owen ( Labour ). Two weekly newspapers cover Warden Hill, although they are not specific to the area. Sarah Owen Sarah Mei Li Owen ( Chinese : 陳美麗 ; pinyin : Chén Měilì ; Wade–Giles : Chen Mei-li ; born 11 January 1983)
84-467: The A6 to the west; and Warden Hill and Galley Hill to the east. Warden Hill is named after the hill overlooking it. Formerly part of the parish of Streatley , Warden Hill was a small hamlet centred on the junction of Icknield Way and the A6 until the 1960s. Nearby Galley Hill was formerly a place of public execution. In the 1960s and 1970s, Warden Hill grew to be a small village, until Luton grew around it in
98-475: The Labour Party candidate for Hastings and Rye to contest the next general election. At the 2015 general election , Owen finished in second place with 17,890 votes, which was 4,796 votes behind the elected Conservative candidate Amber Rudd . In the 2019 general election , Owen was chosen by a panel drawn from Labour's National Executive Committee as the party's candidate for Luton North , rather than by
112-401: The late 1980s and 1990s. Warden Hill Infant and Junior schools are in the area, as well as Luton's only Catholic secondary school, Cardinal Newman . There is also a church and community centre, a golf course and a pub, The Warden Tavern. Neighbouring areas of Warden Hill are Bramingham to the west, and Bushmead and Runfold to the south. Galley Hill and Warden Hill overlook the area,
126-508: The latter being the higher and wider of the two. The hills are designated a local nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest . There are a number of rare species , including butterflies, moths and flowers. The Icknield Way Path passes through the hills on its 110-mile (180 km) route from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Knettishall Heath in Suffolk . Warden Hill
140-656: The local membership, causing protests from some of them who felt that GMB had forced the candidate on them. Owen was elected with a vote tally of 23,496, which was a majority of 9,247 votes over the Conservative Party candidate. On her election, Owen was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Lisa Nandy . On 15 October 2020, Owen resigned her position as PPS to vote against
154-554: The proposed Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill , disagreeing with the Labour Whip to abstain. On 14 April 2021, Owen announced that she was named Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rachel Reeves and was also appointed a whip. In December 2021, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Homelessness, Rough Sleeping and Faith. On 28 October 2022, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Local Government , replacing Mike Amesbury who resigned from his post earlier in
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#1732852466830168-603: The same shadow department between December 2021 and October 2022. Sarah Owen was born on 11 January 1983 in Hastings . Her mother's family is of Malaysian Chinese ancestry, described as "Malaysian and a mix of Singaporean and Nonya " with Chinese great-grandparents. Owen graduated from the University of Sussex . Owen worked in the public sector as a care worker for the NHS , a political assistant for Brighton and Hove City Council and
182-429: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warden_Hill&oldid=1205478014 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
196-506: The year. Her previous portfolio of Faith was retained, and was replaced as Shadow Minister for Homelessness and Rough Sleeping by Paula Barker . In 2022, she criticised Tory MP Mark Francois for using a "crass racial slur" in the House of Commons , after he had made a speech referring to " Japs ". In November 2023, she resigned from the frontbench in support of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. At
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