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Rishi backs pioneering military women’s choir

Rishi joined members of a famous women’s choir and praised its work supporting wives and families at Catterick Garrison. The Military WAGS Choir was formed in 2010 to help WAGS (Wives, Affiliates, Girlfriends, Servicewomen) support each other at the time of the war in Afghanistan.

D&S column: encouraging update from local health chiefs

I receive regular updates from North Yorkshire health chiefs about how our local services are performing. It’s something which started during the Covid-19 pandemic, has continued since and I very much value. This week there was really encouraging news in the update from the South Tees Hospitals NH

Rishi invites Stokesley School pupils into Cabinet Room at No 10

Rishi welcomed Stokesley School students into No 10 Downing Street to talk politics. The 14 sixth-form students were invited into the famous Cabinet Room for a quick-fire Q&A. They quizzed the Prime Minister and their constituency MP on funding the NHS, public sector pay, climate change and ba

Meals on Wheels volunteers doing a great job says Rishi

Rishi has praised the efforts of volunteers who deliver the meals on wheels service in Bedale and district. The Richmond (Yorks) MP called in to the charity’s base to meet the team which provides more than 30 meals three days a week to the elderly and vulnerable. Established in September 2015, the

Rishi praises community that saved its village pub

A community which came together to protect its pub has been praised by Rishi. Villagers in Hunton, near Bedale, formed a community pub society as the first step in purchasing the Countryman’s Inn. Last year they completed the purchase with the help of a £230,000 grant from the Government’s Communi

D&S column: making communities better places to live and work

Encouraging people to come together to make their communities better places to live and work is an important part of my role as your local MP. In recent weeks I have seen – and supported – many examples of towns and villages in our part of Yorkshire doing just that. The Government is doing its bit

Rishi opens affordable homes and shop development in the Dales

A development which has created three affordable homes for rent in a Yorkshire Dales village has been opened by Rishi. The MP cut a ribbon to formally mark the completion of the refurbishment of an almost derelict building in the centre of Askrigg. The homes for affordable rent by local people hav

Rishi inspired by visit to St Francis Xavier School, Richmond

Rishi joined maths, art and food technology classes during his visit to Richmond’s St Francis Xavier School. He also met student body representatives to answer their questions about his work as Prime Minister and his life in Westminster. The MP took part in a year 11 maths class discussing the Pyt

Rishi welcomes safeguarding of ancient Thornborough Henges

Rishi has welcomed the opening to the public of the ancient Thornborough Henges, near Bedale Historic England and English Heritage have secured the future of two massive henge monuments and their surrounding landscape, part of a Neolithic complex described as “the Stonehenge of the North”. The Tho