A great morning at the Auction Mart. I got to test out my knowledge of liveweight and deadweight, fat stock, store stock and cull cows, and was even given a quick test on identifying different breeds!
I know how important the Friarage hospital is to everyone in the constituency so I wanted to visit the team there as soon as possible. I grew up in an NHS household and also have two young children, so I know first-hand how vital good quality, convenient healthcare is to a local community.
Ensuring high quality broadband reaches every corner of our constituency is a key priority for me. Farmers need to access livestock movement reports online, grandparents want to see their grandkids on Skype and small rural businesses should be able to sell all over the world.
Whether we are elderly residents living alone, parents with young families, or farmers living in a remote area, we all want to feel secure in our homes and neighbourhood. I was especially pleased to see that North Yorkshire has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Early Wednesday morning I headed to Great Ayton for Captain Cook Day. The great British cartographer and adventurer James Cook spent his early years in Airey Farm, just outside the town, and so each year residents have a day of celebration on his birthday.
Firstly, it is critically important that measures are taken to ensure that visually impaired children have all the necessary support in educational settings, and more widely at home.
Therefore, I am pleased that high needs funding, which is specifically for supporting children with more comple
Sewage overflows are a Victorian infrastructure issue and it was a Conservative Government that was the first to take action on this by publishing the Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has long been clear about its concerns over the continued destabilising activity of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). This includes IRGC political, financial and military support to a number of militant and proscribed groups.
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