Articles for the Herald and Post

Well, football didn’t quite come home this summer and thirty years of hurt inches towards sixty. But what a change from my childhood: we are getting to...

I’m writing this week’s column having just witnessed the King’s Speech, the official beginning of the new Parliament. The protocols of the King’s Speech and the...

As I write this week’s column, I have just taken my Oath of Allegiance to the Crown for the sixth time. This ritual, known as swearing-in, takes place with...

Last week, Hampshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Donna Jones, together with South Central Ambulance Service, announced that specialist mental health nurses...

Last week the Prime Minister held his second ‘ Farm to Fork’ summit. This is a forum for all those involved in food production, including supermarkets, to find...

I went on two very different education-related visits last week. The first was to Andrews Endowed primary school in Holybourne where the children grilled me on...

Last week’s local council, mayoral and Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections were the last major electoral event before the general election. Of course...

There’s an important piece of legislation making its way through Parliament at the moment that could significantly help our livestock farmers. The Dogs...

If your family is like ours in the run up to the school holidays, there can be something of a scramble to find activities (as well as copious snacks) to keep...