Last Friday was a day for me to visit businesses, big and small, local and national, up and down my constituency.

The first of April marked one hundred years since the creation of the Royal Air Force—the world’s oldest independent air force—from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

Local MP Jesse Norman has expressed his delight at news of three new funding wins for Herefordshire.

When trouble comes, there are always some who turn towards it. So it was last week amid the horrendous weather.

Earlier this week I had a chance to congratulate and thank the Farming Minister, George Eustice, who has announced a new £60m grants scheme through which farmers can bid for cash to buy new farm equipment.

Herefordians were, I know, transfixed like the rest of the country last year by Sir David Attenborough’s astonishing second series on The Blue Planet.

Jesse Norman paid a visit to Ashfield Park Primary School on Friday, February 2nd, to give a short, interactive talk on democracy.

The airwaves and social media were humming last week after Question Time at the Courtyard

Happy New Year! And a very prosperous and peaceful 2018 to all Hereford Times readers.