Local News

Over the autumn I have been out and about locally distributing our new community newspaper, which covers various things that I and your local councillors have...

The events of last weekend underlined the huge range of issues an MP is expected to deal with. On Saturday my usual brisk street surgery at Shoreham Farmer’s...

On Tuesday I hosted a Westminster Hall debate on flying schools, after the shock news that after 17 years Shoreham based FTA would be closing its doors for good...

I recently attended the Canadian Memorial on Worthing seafront for a moving service to commemorate the 1000 Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in the Dieppe...

MPs inevitably need a tough skin. Criticism is part of the territory and praise comes as a pleasant, albeit rare, surprise. Last week I received a lovely letter...

My constituent Dinkie Flowers, now 103 and a quarter, was in typically irrepressible form when she turned up at the Fishersgate Gateway Hub to present a cheque...

Sadly we’ve had instances of shoplifting and antisocial behaviour in our town centres, and recently there was that very unfortunate assault inside the Co-op in...

It’s always a bit embarrassing presenting a trophy to yourself and it rarely happens but at the 103rd Southwick Horticultural Society Annual Summer Show it...

I held a very lively roundtable about the spate of shoplifting centred on the Lancing and Shoreham COOP branches involving store managers, police, councillors...