I recently witnessed the work of Gloucestershire Highways’ brand-new Pothole Pro machine repairing the road in Nass Lane between Quedgley and Brookthorpe thanks to extra government cash.
Yesterday I met with the Secretary of State for Health, Victoria Atkins MP, alongside some of my Gloucestershire MP colleagues to discuss GPs and primary care across the county.
Collectively we made a number of comments and requests to the Health Secretary for her consideration.
Children’s mental health in Gloucestershire and how long some of our young have been waiting for treatment has been an ongoing problem but it looks like there is some good news.
It is an issue I have raised locally and nationally for a number of years.
There are serious obstacles are in the way of reopening Stonehouse Bristol Road Railway station that must be addressed by the council if the project is to achieve the next stage of planning.
Like many, I am intuitively against banning things and state interventions, but I see this Bill as an opportunity to change the life chances and the life course of thousands of children in the Stroud district, with my two little girls included in the mix.
As many of you know, I have been pushing for user verification online for a long time now. We won the argument and got the legislation but now we need it to happen.
