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Declassify first class carriages at peak times

I was pleased to receive a letter from the Transport Minister, Jo Johnson explaining the actions the government are taking to sort out the fiasco caused by GTR and Network Rail's handling of the new timetable implementation. I was particularly pleased to read that the first class carriages would be

Eco, Young & Engaged (E.Y.E.) Project 2018 - 11th Eco Summit

The 11th Annual Worthing & Adur Eco Summit for the EYE (Eco, Yung & Engaged) project I set up in 2008 was the biggest and best yet with no fewer than 315 pupils from 27 schools enjoying a day at Worthing High School learning about environmental best practice.

Update from Govia Thameslink and Network Rail

GTR & Network Rail have written to me to provide an update on the latest progress with the current service provision and customer information: Apology We know that the service we have been running is unacceptable and we understand how much hardship this has caused many people.  We wi

New Monk Farm - Planning Committee minutes - Wednesday 18 July 2018

The Adur Planning Committee meeting minutes of Wednesday 18 July 2018 will shortly be available to view online at: Adur Planning Committee meeting minutes - 18 July 2018 Well done again to the Adur Planning Committee for not approving the New Monks Farm application - still too many questi

School places meeting at CLC

Meanwhile there was a good turnout of parents from Adur to hear from local councillors and county council education officers about the allocation of secondary school places from 2019.

Visit to Esteem

Over the weekend I visited Esteem located at The Old School House on Ham Road.

Tim Loughton MP on board to support new campaign for accessible transport

Tim Loughton MP joined disability charity Leonard Cheshire to launch their new campaign calling on the Government to make sure that all train operators provide accessible end-to-end journeys. More than a third (35%) of disabled people of working ages say they have experienced problems using trains

Herald column June 28th 2018

It was good to swap the Brexit brinkmanship at Westminster to the very real concerns affecting many constituents on a day to day basis with a meeting of the County Local Committee at the Shoreham Centre last Thursday dealing with local school places. After more than 280 hours of debate in Parliamen

Supreme Court finds in favour of equal civil partnerships

I am delighted the Supreme Court have ruled in favour of Charles and Rebecca and in favour of equality.  Charles and Rebecca have fought hard and long to get to this point and the Government could and should have acted a long time ago.  I hope that with this judgement the Government will