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I hope you had a safe, enjoyable and peaceful Christmas. Let me begin by wishing everyone across the North Dorset constituency a happy New Year. I hope we all...

May I begin this little ‘offering’ by expressing my heartfelt thanks to all of those who have contacted me to congratulate me and wish me well on my appointment...

I want to focus on four Rs in this article. As I type, we are preparing for that great act of Remembrance. We will gather at monuments and markers to pay our...

Many years ago I attended a lecture given at the Royal Town Planning Institute. While it was not a sell-out affair (I doubt attendance at such an event is on...

I want to try to cover two issues this month: the first is around the environment and the second on a public health matter. We have gone through an incredibly...

I was really pleased to join the Shaftesbury Chamber of Commerce's AGM last week where a number of important topics were discussed, including the importance of...

During PMQs this week, I was pleased to be able to ask the Prime Minister about the recruitment and retention of GPs and dentists in rural areas. Over the last...

May I begin by wishing you a belated, but sincere, Happy New Year and let us hope that it is capable of being a calmer year for all of us. The Opinion Polls are...

The kindness of strangers……. During this pandemic a light has shone very brightly – kind, community/neighbour focussed actions. Often, for the doer, a small...