As the hot, dry weather continues this summer, most of us living in the Brentwood and Ongar constituency are under restrictions on how we use our water.
Some readers will be aware that a few months ago I started a campaign to encourage people to drink a pint a week in their local pub every week. In the face of some of the harshest tax and regulation of any businesses worldwide, the pub industry is in dire need of support.
It was excellent to see so many Essex Members of Parliament, Borough District and County Councillors and candidates for the May local elections gathering at Hutton Hall on Friday for the launch of the Conservatives’ Essex election campaign, presided over by my party’s leader, and Leader of His Majes
In the last couple of weeks I have visited Kelvedon Hatch Primary School and Brentwood Town Football Club, to meet young students and some of our local footballers.The Kelvedon Hatch Primary School pupils showed me some of the activities they do, including within a forest school environment where li
The people Brentwood have form when it comes to stepping up to support children with special educational needs. Our fabulous local charity, SNAP, started with some families with children who had additional needs deciding they wanted more for their children than was then on offer.
When Brentwood Community Hospital was under threat of being closed for local services, and turned into a stroke unit, one of the side issues to come up through the consultation was the difficulties older people living in Brentwood would have – and do have – in getting to any of the other hospitals i
I hold regular meetings with the Police Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex, Roger Hirst, and the team policing Brentwood and Ongar for Essex Police, so it was good to hear from out District Commander, Chief Inspector Terry Fisher, recently with news of the new Brentwood Neighbourhood Policing Tea
After a number of complaints from constituents across Mid and South Essex about the lack of community audiology appointments available for those who felt their hearing was beginning to deteriorate, I joined some of my fellow Conservative Essex MPs in writing to the Mid and South Essex Integrated Car
