Local shopkeepers and businesses in Hereford have expressed their serious concern about the Council’s decision to impose traffic and pedestrian controls in the city centre. They are right to feel that way. But there is a way forward which I believe can improve the city for everyone.

Sometimes we should lift our eyes from the everyday and look upwards to the stars. 

For me at least, this has been a week in which the gap between public and media furore and the reality of work on the ground has rarely been greater.

The celebration of VE Day last Friday has put us all in mind of the extraordinary heroics of the Second World War.

Last Monday I had the honour to speak in the House of Commons to the 2019-20 Finance Bill – the first piece of virtual UK legislation ever to be debated.

Jesse Norman MP visits post-flooding bridge surveillance using remote camera and sonar technologies to survey Holme Lacy Bridge.

The floods this week have been so horrendous that it is impossible to think of anything else.

I have come out hard against the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership over its treatment of our pioneering new Herefordshire University project, NMITE. 

I hope all Hereford Times readers have had the chance to have a good break, and went easy--but not too easy--on the mince pies and Christmas pud!