There was certainly a very ‘full and frank’ exchange of views when the head and senior management of Southern Water, together with the national and local head of the Environment Agency came to Westminster to meet Sussex MPs last week.
Well done to the Shoreham parents who organised such an excellent well-attended meeting at the Shoreham Centre last Thursday to discuss the problem over secondary school place allocation for Shoreham pupils.
On Wednesday 15th March I was delighted to attend the Crate Escape reception in Parliament. The Crate Escape is a campaign led by the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF), Humane Society International/UK and Compassion in World Farming.
There were lots of good, sensible measures announced in the Budget just 24 hours ago — I want to tell you about some of the practical help that will benefit people in East Worthing and Shoreham.
Saturday’s street surgery at Shoreham Farmer’s market was a busy affair and in a 2- and a quarter hour session I think just about every parent at Swiss Gardens School must have lobbied me and councillors about the problem over secondary school placements which I wrote about last week.
In Parliament on Tuesday I was the first backbencher called to speak in response to the Government's new Illegal Migration Bill, which the Home Secretary has just introduced in the House of Commons.
Stopping the boats was one of Rishi Sunak's five pledges made at the start of the year.
