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AMID all the sound and fury surrounding this week’s debating of the EU Union (Withdrawal) Bill, it can be forgotten that much of the legislation MPs vote into...

IT MIGHT seem odd that an MP whose constituency is benefitting from more than £400m of Government spending on transport should take the same Government to task...

THIS week’s first frost is a sharp reminder that the cold of winter is on its way along with the annual battle to keep our energy costs under control. While we...

WE have had some good news about local health services recently which given the current staffing challenges at the Friarage Hospital should rightly be...

THIS week I wrote to every pub in the constituency (almost 200 of them!) asking them to participate in my inaugural Pub Survey. Pubs are vital to our rural...

IT’S a modern-day truism that the internet has revolutionised our lives. Nothing has changed the way we live more than a technology invented by a Briton – Sir...

I make no apology for returning to a subject which has already featured many times in this column: the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton. Just two weeks ago I...

I confess that I could only give two cheers to last week’s announcement that part of the upgraded A1 between Leeming and Barton was to finally open. On the face...

I am constantly coming across the sterling work of community groups raising money for a huge range of excellent local causes. It is, always difficult to single...