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Herald column April 26th 2018

I like busy days and last Friday started with an early meeting with representatives from the local air pollution group AREA for an update, as I was unable to attend their public meeting earlier in the week confined to barracks in Parliament for the important Syria debates. Apparently strange rumour

Lipoedema

Thank you to constituents from Worthing and Southwick for a really powerful presentation to health minister Steve Brine on lack of services for Lipoedema sufferers.

West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service Public Consultation

West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service (WSFRS) is seeking the views of the wider community on its draft Integrated Risk Management Plan. The Fire & Rescue Service has a statutory duty to consult on and publish the plan. It identifies and assesses all forseeable fire and rescue related

APPG on State Pension Inequality for Women: 25 April 2018 Meeting Statement

On 25 April 2018 a meeting was held between State Pension Inequality for Women APPG Officers and representatives from each of the groups that responded to the recent consultation (one representative per group, and in the case of WASPI one representative at national level and not one from each of the

Britain bites back in the fight against loan sharks

The government has announced plans to crack down on loan sharks to help and protect the most vulnerable, as we build a fairer economy and a more caring society, including more funding to tackle unlawful lending, and an increase in the amount of money seized from loan sharks to support those mos

Rampion Fund grants over £400,000 to Sussex communities

Rampion and the Sussex Community Foundation have announced that the first grants have been distributed from the £3.1 million community fund set up by the offshore wind farm last autumn. Overleaf is a complete list of grants awarded to 46 groups from across East Sussex, West Sussex and the city

New Train Times - Coming 20 May

The upcoming changes to Southern's train timetable will hopefully create a more reliable service and extra capacity in the morning peak for 40,000 more passengers from across our network into London, with further expansion to 60,000 by the end of 2019.  This does mean that every train time

Happy St George's Day

After a busy surgery, I finished up at an early St George’s Day celebration with North Lancing Residents Association.

AREA IKEA Protest

Adur Residents Environment Action (AREA) are holding a protest against the proposed IKEA on New Monks Farm on Saturday 12th May. 10am meet at the the Old Toll Bridge to walk to Withy Layby for 10:30am.

New Chairman of Lancing Business Park

It was then on to meet the new Chairman of Lancing Business Park Damian Pulford of Sussex Transport together with park manager Suzy Bastaple and see some of the more extraordinary freight items his lorries convey around the world.