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Dementia affects tens of thousands of people. There can be few of us who do not know a victim. Much has been - and continues to be - done, to research treatments and discover possible long-term cures. Awareness week is an annual event that … [Read more...] about Dementia Awareness Week

Last Friday morning the votes were finally counted and, in addition to returning a majority Conservative government, the people of Bridgwater and West Somerset sent me back to Westminster. I am enormously proud and very grateful indeed to … [Read more...] about Thank you for supporting me

South West One was created in 2007. It was an accident waiting to happen from the word go. Unfortunately not one of the participants was prepared to listen to the word 'stop'. The County council, Taunton Deane council and Avon and Somerset … [Read more...] about I told them it wouldn’t work

I am proud to be one of many MPs from all parties who are backing the Alzheimer's Society campaign to win better diagnosis and more help for victims of this debilitating disease. Throughout the constituency there are hundreds of people … [Read more...] about Alzheimer’s campaign

A pal of mine sent me a few snaps from one of my favourite West Somerset haunts this weekend. Watchet may well have been the place where Samuel Taylor Coleridge came up with the idea for his epic poem "the Ancient Mariner". After the … [Read more...] about Watchet’s not so super “super tide”