Hello again! This column dropped out briefly from the pages of the Gazette, but it's a pleasure now to be able to bring it back.

July 5th marks the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the National Health Service. It is a delight for me to be able to celebrate the NHS, and the astonishing work it does every day to cure us of disease, to heal injury and to keep us safe for the future.

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.

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.

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

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.