Articles for the Herald and Post

This Friday, Cash Access UK is heading to Bordon to host a community ’drop in’ event about Hampshire’s first ever banking hub. The event’s purpose is to provide...

Everyone knows it can be very difficult juggling work time with family life. No two families are the same. Some are able to and decide to have a parent be full...

This morning (as I write this) I have just done my first morning media round as an opposition spokesman: a little shorter than doing the round as a government...

Well, football didn’t quite come home this summer and thirty years of hurt inches towards sixty. But what a change from my childhood: we are getting to...

I’m writing this week’s column having just witnessed the King’s Speech, the official beginning of the new Parliament. The protocols of the King’s Speech and the...

As I write this week’s column, I have just taken my Oath of Allegiance to the Crown for the sixth time. This ritual, known as swearing-in, takes place with...

Last week, Hampshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Donna Jones, together with South Central Ambulance Service, announced that specialist mental health nurses...

Last week the Prime Minister held his second ‘ Farm to Fork’ summit. This is a forum for all those involved in food production, including supermarkets, to find...

I went on two very different education-related visits last week. The first was to Andrews Endowed primary school in Holybourne where the children grilled me on...