In a press release earlier this week East Hampshire’s Conservative candidate Damian Hinds has said he regrets that there has not been more focus on education in the national media coverage of the election campaign and manifestos.
Thank you to Treloar's student governors Isobel and Archie, their fellow students, and staff, for a brilliant hustings on Monday this week! Great questions, and we candidates all learned important things that day. #Treloars #GE24
Last week, Hampshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Donna Jones, together with South Central Ambulance Service, announced that specialist mental health nurses will be based in the police control room to deal with emergency calls…
Last week the Prime Minister held his second ‘Fork to Farm’ summit. This is a forum for all those involved in food production, including supermarkets, to find solutions to the issues affecting our farming community.
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 everything to do with being an MP and Minister for schools.
Damian was delighted to be invited to the recent Dementia Walking Football tournament in Petersfield, in memory of Jeff Williams, a local dementia campaigner. Despite the inclement weather, the four teams battled hard, with Winchester…
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 small people occupied. For people on lower incomes, things can be more difficult.
April not only brings with it lighter evenings and (hopefully) some more spring like weather (less rain please!) but it also marks the start of the new financial year.
Last week’s news agenda was of course dominated by the Budget. Top of the list of priorities was to maintain the progress on driving down inflation and debt, and encouraging growth.
Damian was recently interviewed by Jack Finch from 'Rise and Shine' on Petersfield's Shine Radio. It was a varied discussion about local issues, what it's like being an MP and juggling the role with the responsibilities of a Minister and…
In this week's column for the Herald and Post I thought I’d cover a few of the other issues that were discussed at my public meeting in Liss, but that I ran out of column space to write about last week.
Firstly my thanks to everybody who braved a very chilly Thursday evening to come to my public meeting in Liss last week. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone that attended. There were lots of new (to me) faces, plus some old, and lots of…
Last week I wrote in the Herald about important developments in education, and my focus this week is on another key plank of education. One that has in the past sometimes had less attention, but not now. I’m talking of course about…
In my first Herald/Post column for 2024 I thought I’d write about some developments in education that I ran out of column-weeks to write about last year.