My weekly update from Westminster Hall - on legislation going through Parliament, local meetings (including with National Highways about the A27, at Swiss Gardens Primary School, with Southern Water and with GTR Railways) and an update on Cllr Tania Edwards' campaign - more here:
Some readers may have noticed last week’s feature on BBC Breakfast about Brighton swimmer and little-known local celebrity Mercedes Gleitze who was the first woman to swim the English Channel in 1927.
My weekly video from a sun-drenched Westminster, discussing the Sue Gray update, legislation going through Parliament, a sewage meeting in Lancing and more.
I thought it would be helpful to post a summary of the latest briefing given to West Sussex MPs by the Sussex CCG.
* All our local hospitals continue to be under pressure but mostly from the demand from non-Covid patients and t
I owe readers an apology about a party. Not a recent one you will be relieved to hear, but in my column last week I referred to fond memories of being ‘gunged’ for the Diamond Jubilee party on Broadwater Green and I have now found the photo.
My weekly video on the events in Parliament this week - including Holocaust Memorial Day, NHS vaccinations and various legislation - and constituency updates and events.
All the headlines give the impression that the only thing going on in politics at the moment is ‘Partygate,’ and I have of course commented at length for all my constituents in my Facebook piece which was widely picked up by the national media.
Thank you to all those constituents (and a lot more besides) who have written to me with their views on the current state of play with the Prime Minister or ‘Partygate,’ and what I should be doing about it.
Our first street surgery of the year was a rather soggy affair on Saturday but thank you to all those visitors to the Shoreham Farmers Market who came to wish local councillors and I a Happy New Year and comment on our fortitude.
It was in fact a doubly damp morning as Councillors Neil Parkin and K
