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OVER the recent Christmas holidays I spent a fun couple of hours with my two young daughters watching the classic 1964 movie Mary Poppins. It’s one of Disney’s...

The price paid to dairy farmers for the milk they produce has been a major concern for me since I was first elected as your MP. Although the farmgate price has...

MOST of us know that sinking feeling you get when returning to your car you find one of those little yellow plastic wallets plastered over the windscreen – the...

IT is something many of us perhaps take for granted but we do live in a most beautiful part of the world. I am reminded of the fact fairly regularly when...

The call from Number 10 came at two o’clock last Tuesday afternoon. Would I be available to meet the Prime Minister in half an hour? With no inkling of what...

WORKING as your constituency MP, I have spent more time in our local schools than anywhere else. That’s because I believe a good education is the most precious...

On Christmas Day, while we were opening presents, tucking into our festive fare and generally enjoying the holiday, a strange journey was underway off Yorkshire...

AS we all wind down for the holiday I trust you, your families and friends are looking forward to a happy and relaxing Christmas. The build-up can be frantic...

MUCH has been written and said about the introduction of the Government’s new welfare payment Universal Credit. It is the biggest shake-up of our benefits...