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Herald Column June 14th 2018

I spent the short Whitsun recess with the humanitarian aid group Medical Aid for Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank seeing at first hand the plight of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.

School governor roundtables

Here are the minutes of the 2 roundtables which I held with chairs of governors from schools across East Worthing & Shoreham on May 17th and 25th May. All 28 schools were invited to attend and 18 took up the offer with some governors substituting and some sending additional members.

£30M for a Rough Sleeping Initiative

83 areas will share £30 million to boost the immediate support available to people living on the streets and help them into accommodation, including £271,094 for Worthing.  Councils across England with the highest numbers of rough sleepers will receive a share of this funding to significa

Tim Loughton MP takes a stand against cancer

Tim Loughon MP, [East Worthing & Shoreham], is backing a life-saving appeal from Cancer Research UK for more NHS cancer staff. He attended a special event in Westminster to launch the charity’s new campaign - ‘Shoulder to Shoulder Against Cancer’. It encourages everyone to stand shoulder to sh

End of the line for GTR

Just when we thought GTR's train service had started, ever so slightly, to improve, or at least not deteriorate further, along comes this new timetable - a mess of epic proportions.

Herald column June 7th 2018

As I write Parliament has been back for just 2 days after the short Whitsun recess and we have already covered the Ivory Bill, banning the import of fur products, the US trade war, the anomaly that now exists in the island of Ireland over abortion and the latest shambles over GTR trains, again.

Fur Free Britain

On Monday there were two pieces of good animal welfare news: 1) the Government's Ivory Bill passed through the House of Commons unopposed.

Investment in new school places

West Sussex will receive an additional £750,000 as a result of the special educational needs funding announced last week.