Parliament returned from the Easter recess on Monday and not surprisingly our proceedings were dominated by events in Syria over the weekend.

We have some great residents’ associations and special interest groups around the constituency which usually meet during the week and invariably I miss them when I am at Westminster. So I have been using the opportunity of the Easter recess to catch up on some of them.

Many readers will have heard of The Great Get Together Weekend which was established in memory of my former colleague Jo Cox MP who was murdered back in 2016.

The Herald has reported on the outcry over the review of the way the Community Safety Partnership is funded by the Police Crime and Commissioner.

Last week at PMQs I had the opportunity to ask the PM about the ongoing anomaly where train operating companies are not obliged to pass on to passengers the compensation they receive from Network Rail when delays and cancellations are caused by problems on the line rather than of their own making

The Red Cross website is full of such everyday first aid skills. You can find them here: http://www.redcross.org.uk/What-we-do/First-aid/Everyday-First-Aid

Why not share first aid tips for a fever? 

At the end of last week I spent a few days at the United Nations in New York as part of an assembly of international Parliamentarians.

During periods of very cold weather, payments are made by the Government to help people pay for extra heating costs.

On July 5th 2018, the NHS will celebrate its 70th birthday. Working alongside a range of partners, NHS England and NHS Improvement are putting together a programme of events to mark the milestone.

Last week I took the opportunity to visit the Southampton branch of IKEA to meet senior managers and grill them about how on earth they think a new store at New Monks Farm won't completely snarl up the A27.