Visit to Thruvision
I visited Thru Vision on Milton Parkon Friday. It's a spin off from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and a good example of the kind of hi-tech comapnies...
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Faringdon Hustings
Friday night was the Faringdon hustings, with Labour, Lib Dems and Greens fielding their candidates. The question master was Henry Porter...
Read this entry » Didcot Homecoming Parade
Friday saw the homecoming parade of the Counter IED Task Force at Didcot, as Didcot is the home of 11 EOD, the Regiment tasked with bomb...
Read this entry » The Great Poll Card Mess Up
As many will know, the Vale Council issued 40,000 polling cards giving the wrong address for the polling station. Constituents in Shrivenham,...
Read this entry » Friday visits
On Friday, I conducted my last official visits before the general election. During the election, I will not technically be the MP, although...
Read this entry » Wantage Road Station
My campaign to re-open Wantage Road Station continues. Last week I met Rick Haythornthwaite, chairman of Network Rail, to discuss the possibility. ...
Read this entry » My Legg Appeal
As the Sunday Telegraph reports, I have appealed my Legg findings. It's much less of a big deal than it might seem. In May I repaid...
Read this entry » New Hub in Wallingford
On Friday I opened the new enterprise hub in Wallingford. An idea from long-time resident David Bosley, it provides serviced offices...
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Fitzwaryn School
On Friday I visited Fitzwaryn School to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The school is a special needs school based in Wantage and Grove. In 40 years...
Read this entry »A Government policy that isn’t working
Here is a good example of an announcment by Government that sounds good in theory and doesn't work at all in practice, in fact it is almost comical if it wasn't...
Read this entry »Campaign against the A420 closure
Some of you may be aware that I am campaigning against this mad idea to close a lane of the A420 to allow lorries access from a quarry. I am delighted...
Read this entry »Future of Wantage Meeting
I held a meeting on the future of Wantage yesterday, which was surprisingly well attended given that it was a Friday night and pouring with rain. I wanted...
Read this entry »Re-Opening Wantage Road Station
I have now launched a new campaign to get Wantage Road station re-opened. I know what you are thinking. ...
Read this entry »Wantage is the 66th Cleverest Constituency in the country
Out of 628 constituencies studied by Union of College Lecturers only 65 had a higher proportion of people with degrees than Wantage. Half...
Read this entry »Live music in the constituency
I took part in a dbetae on the licensing laws in Parliament last week. The big issue is whether to exempt small venues from the need for a licence, to encourage...
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