Last week in Parliament featured a very unusual debate:  on the abuse and intimidation of parliamentary candidates during the recent General Election.

Hello again everyone!  This is my first Hereford Times column since the General Election, which already seems like a lifetime ago. Harold Wilson once said that a week is a long time in politics, but in light of recent events it feels like an hour is.

Local MP Jesse Norman has been appointed as the new Roads Minister at the Department of Transport in the recent ministerial reshuffle.

Jesse Norman MP has called publicly for "cast-iron commitments" on the proposed new Primary Care Access Centre next to the ASDA in South Hereford.

Jesse Norman has described himself as "delighted and honoured" by his re-election as Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire. 

This election is about two choices:  national and local.

Bits of good and bad news can be like the proverbial London bus; nothing for ages, then suddenly three turn up at once.

We are extremely lucky to have the General Practitioners we do in Herefordshire.  A doctor’s surgery is a hallowed place in every community in the UK.  But it is especially so in a large, sparsely populated and under-funded border county such as ours.

Jesse Norman has today celebrated the news that £8 million of Government funding has been announced for Hereford’s new specialist tech and engineering university.