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View from Westminster - May 17, 2012

3:40pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

REGULAR readers will be aware that I am working to drive down local petrol and diesel prices, bringing them into line with neighbouring districts.

View from Westminster - May 10, 2012

4:30pm Wednesday 9th May 2012

AS is often the case with a weekly column, by the time the words I write are published, the big news will have happened.

View from Westminster - May 3, 2012

3:30pm Wednesday 2nd May 2012

THERE was a lot of news coming out last week, but the one that affects us all the most is the economic figures.

View from Westminster - April 26, 2012

3:30pm Wednesday 25th April 2012

THE strategy of the government to tackle the chronic state of the nation’s finances is often lost in the endless arguments that surround Westminster.

View from Westminster - April 19, 2012

3:50pm Wednesday 18th April 2012

WHAT with ‘pasty tax’, ‘granny tax’, party funding rows and all the rest of it, the last few weeks has been less than brilliant for the coalition.

View from Westminster - April 12, 2012

3:20pm Wednesday 11th April 2012

A COUPLE of weeks ago, my activities took a more international slant. As the Easter recess started, the Worcestershire MPs organised a ‘world trade fair’ for the county, inviting a number of embassies to send representatives to the county to meet with businesses. Later that same day, I went for a three-day trip to the United Arab Emirates.

View from Westminster - April 5, 2012

3:10pm Wednesday 4th April 2012

A couple of weeks ago, I had the delightful task of accompanying a representative from Sport England to present cheques to a number of local sports clubs who had been successful in applications for grants.

View from Westminster - March 29

10:30am Thursday 29th March 2012

The Community union has been raising a petition calling for the government to ‘do more’ to help Brintons. I hope to meet with them soon, to be able to chat with them about how we can all help Brintons and the wider carpet industry.

View from Westminster - March 22, 2012

7:30am Thursday 22nd March 2012

OF course, the big news this week from Westminster is the budget. One of the problems, though, of writing a column for a weekly newspaper with a deadline of Wednesday with the big news happening at 12.30pm the same day is that any speculation of what is in the budget will be completely out of date within hours of being written!

View from Westminster - March 15, 2012

2:50pm Wednesday 14th March 2012

WHEN Parliament is sitting, the only day I can spend during the working week in Wyre Forest is Friday. The day is always full of meetings and they vary in subject matter.