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Improving health in the North

The Chancellor’s Spring Statement had to address a number of concerns. The most immediate is the state of the country’s finances particularly as we face Brexit turmoil. But he also had to address long term economic issues such as productivity and the regional gap. Productivity is lower in the North.…

Fairtrade Fortnight

This is Fairtrade Fortnight when individuals, companies and groups come together to celebrate food producers in otherwise exploited and unfair markets. This year the focus is on women with the She Deserves campaign. Farmers in West Africa need £1.86 a day to achieve a living income and that includes women…

World Cancer Day

Last week’s World Cancer Day brought organisations and people around the world together to raise awareness about cancer and work to make it a global health priority. Leading cancer charities brought their campaigns to Parliament and the statistics make stark reading. Half of people will get cancer in their lifetime.…

Still struggling over new laws

Apart from headline catching big Brexit votes the Government is struggling to get the laws in place to replace EU rules with UK rules before any deal happens. These include big bills covering issues such as trade, immigration, farming and fishing but also hundreds of bits of secondary legislation adding…

Brexit not the only challenge facing our country

With all the noise and discord of Brexit it’s possible to think there are no other important challenges facing the country. There are and few more important than the future of the NHS. The Governments NHS Long Term Plan set out ambitions to improve treatment and care, showing how the…

Happy New Year to you and yours

There wasn’t much goodwill in Parliament before the recess but at home it’s a different matter. Whether its donations to foodbanks like the Bay Foodbank or the Christmas Concert at St Edward’s to fundraise for homelessness. Or the brave Boxing Day runners raising funds for Woodlawn School. Or our overstretched…

Have your say on Fire services

In my last column before Christmas let me wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. As we settle down to the festivities spare a thought for the emergency services who are working through to keep us safe and well. And as their lines get…

More to fishing than the catch

Even with the great uncertainty about what will happen after any deal to leave the EU the Government still needs to put in place alternative arrangements. So it was that the Fisheries Bill passed its first stages in the Commons last week as Ministers seek a new framework for managing…

Time is running out

Churchill said the reward of victory is responsibility. Yet what followed the First World War was hardly a land fit for heroes and two decades later Europe was plunged into a second civil war – that’s why Churchill was so keen on increasing European cooperation. So it’s ironic that at…

Too little, too late

It seems appropriate that in the week before Bonfire Night the Chancellor’s Budget has proved to be a damp squib. It wasn’t as if there hadn’t been plenty of hype beforehand. The Prime Minister had announced an end to austerity, her Chancellor spoke only of austerity coming to an end.…

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