Nearly 100,000 jobs have been lost in hospitality since last year’s Budget. If that number of jobs had gone from the steel industry, it would have been headline news for weeks. And yet little has been said about the loss in hospitality since these jobs are dispersed across the country. But behind these figures are lives that have been turned upside down, and in the case of business closures, communities that have lost vital third spaces. Hospitality used to be a job creating

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