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Landmark Celebration for Women’s Suffrage
This month we celebrated UK Parliament Week, a UK-wide festival, which aims to engage people, especially the younger generation, with Parliament and empower them to get involved. As part of UK...
Championing Small Businesses across Aldridge-Brownhills
Small businesses are the lifeblood of local communities across the country and in my constituency they remain the backbone of our High Streets, Village Centres, and Industrial Estates. Last year...
Our Sister Suffragette
On this day in 1918, just days after Armistice, the Qualification of Women Act was passed in Parliament, allowing women to stand for Parliament for the first time. Since then we have only had 491...
Coleman Lodge Grand Opening
I was grateful to Churchill Retirement Living for inviting me to the opening of their new Coleman Lodge development in Aldridge Village last week. As part of the opening I was delighted to meet...
Christmas Bazaar Success
I was delighted to join the volunteers of the Macmillan Cancer Research at their Christmas Bazaar at Aldridge Community Centre. The event was incredibly well supported with some wonderful arts,...
Aldridge School – How young people are stereotyped in modern society
I was delighted to meet with a group of students at Aldridge School and be able to participate in a question and answer session to assist with their Citizenship coursework. In a 60-minute session of...
UK Parliament Week – Ryders Hayes
This week we are celebrating UK Parliament Week. This is a UK-wide festival, which aims to engage people, especially young people, from different backgrounds and communities, with the UK Parliament...
Pelsall Civic Service
As we commemorated the 100th Anniversary of the ending of World War I we have seen the strong sense of communities coming together across the country. So too locally where across Aldridge-Brownhills...
Act of Remembrance 2018
As Britain fell silent on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month we once again came together as a nation in an Act of Remembrance to honour those who have paid the ultimate price for our...
Brownhills School Act of Remembrance 2018
It was once again a pleasure to be invited to join staff and students at Brownhills School for their Act of Remembrance. It was a very poignant morning, with thought provoking poems and readings and...