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IT is something many of us perhaps take for granted but we do live in a most beautiful part of the world. I am reminded of the fact fairly regularly when...

The call from Number 10 came at two o’clock last Tuesday afternoon. Would I be available to meet the Prime Minister in half an hour? With no inkling of what...

WORKING as your constituency MP, I have spent more time in our local schools than anywhere else. That’s because I believe a good education is the most precious...

On Christmas Day, while we were opening presents, tucking into our festive fare and generally enjoying the holiday, a strange journey was underway off Yorkshire...

AS we all wind down for the holiday I trust you, your families and friends are looking forward to a happy and relaxing Christmas. The build-up can be frantic...

MUCH has been written and said about the introduction of the Government’s new welfare payment Universal Credit. It is the biggest shake-up of our benefits...

With Christmas looming ever closer, I am sure many of us will have gone online to do at least part of our festive shopping. With time being so precious in the...

WITH the benefit of a week to consider the Budget, I think the Chancellor did a good job in balancing two objectives: bringing down the deficit while investing...

The seventy or so souls who live in the hamlet of Ellerton-on-Swale would never consider themselves as living in a particularly remote part of North Yorkshire...