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I very much welcome the opening of the consultation into the changes to emergency services at our much valued and loved local hospital - the Friarage. It is, of...

Standing in the middle of Reeth showfield on Monday, it was hard to believe that only three-and-a-bit weeks previously I had stood almost on the same spot...

There are not many jobs where you can be ‘interviewed’ for the post at ten o’clock in the evening and then start work immediately afterwards. That’s what...

I was absolutely delighted to make the announcement last week of a comprehensive package of aid for the flood-hit communities in the Yorkshire Dales. The...

The story of Rowena Hutchinson sums up the tragedy of last week’s flash-flooding in the Dales. At 3pm on Tuesday, Rowena had a home and a business. At 4pm she...

The torrential rainfall and flash-flooding that we saw in Swaledale and Wensleydale on Tuesday afternoon and evening this week was pretty much unprecedented...

One of my most important jobs as your MP is to keep in contact with all the organisations that provide the huge range of public services across the constituency...

On the way back from one of my regular surgeries in Leyburn recently I called into RAF Leeming to have a chat with the new station commander Group Captain...

I had a green constituency day in Richmond recently prompted by a letter from a group of pupils at St Francis Xavier School. The school’s Eco Team had written...