The campaign to open a banking hub in Totnes and improve banking services in rural areas continues!

I’m very relieved to see the Government take the long overdue step of banning online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation.

Despite still being over a month away, speculation about the Budget and its contents are already in full swing.  

In coastal communities’, independent lifeboats are not only a valued community asset but a vital part of the network for emergency responses.

Today, I finally had the opportunity to ask the Prime Minister about opening a banking hub in Totnes, and I am very pleased with the response. Responding to an earlier question, the PM had said that banking hubs can be “rolled out wherever a community needs one.” I asked if that extends to Totnes and if he will join my campaign, as over 1,100 of you already have, to open a banking hub in the town. Earlier this week, I met with LINK where they again said Totnes does not qualif

The International Baccalaureate sets a global benchmark for education, and is trusted by universities, employers, and educators worldwide as a mark of academic excellence. So, it makes no sense for the government to slash the large programme uplift funding for the IP Diploma programme. The money saved is a drop in the ocean of the overall Department of Education Budget, but by stripping funding away in this short-sighted move, the government is taking opportunities and furthe