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My Local Newspaper Column 04/01/19 A series of burglaries and car thefts in the run up to Christmas have given rise to concerns about rising crime locally. In...

Final press column of 2018…published 28/12/18 If the last few weeks are anything to go by, 2019 looks set to be a bumpy year politically. The past year has had...

My weekly column Friday 21 December In my final column before Christmas, I would like to offer my very best wishes for the season to all readers. I will be...

My Column 14/12/18 This week in Parliament, MPs had expected to have to vote on the Prime Minister’s Withdrawal Agreement on how we leave the EU in March 2019...

Column 07/12/2018 Last Friday, I was delighted to join a number of other East Lancashire MPs to visit the site of the £15.6 million new Phase 8 development at...

My weekly column from 30 November On Tuesday, to coincide with Lancashire Day, I hosted Taste Lancashire in Parliament to celebrate the great food and drink...

My column from 23 November This week we’ve seen colder weather, with the days ever shorter. Winter, as Game of Throne fans like to say, is coming. With winter...

This weekend’s Remembrance Sunday marks the Centenary of the Armistice, which brought World War I to an end on the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the...

My Column from 02 November This week, Parliament has been debating the Budget, which was unveiled on a Monday for the first time since 1962. Apparently...