I've been a school governor since 2010 - first at a Sure Start Children's Centre and currently at my sons' primary school. It is a challenging and rewarding role that I would encourage more people to take up. Throughout my time there have been difficult decisions to make regarding allocation of resources but since 2015 these decisions have become much harder.
Only last February Theresa May was backing a bid to cut the size of House of Lords. But in May she wants to appoint 13 new Lords because the Tories don't have a majority in that House and they have inflicted a string of defeats on Brexit.
Vince had a question to the Prime Minister on Wednesday. He was jeered at almost as soon as he stood up - a good sign that he is so relevant that people think they have to do that.
Mole Valley residents face a further year of Conservative policies following a rescue by the Ashtead Independent Group at the Annual meeting of Mole Valley Council last night. At the elections earlier this month the Conservative administration lost its overall majority as a consequence of a swing to the Liberal Democrats. For the first time in a number of years the Liberal Democrats polled the largest number of votes across Mole Valley indicating that the electorate were looking for a significant change in policies and direction.
Your Liberall Democrat Brickhill Borough Councillors Wendy Rider and Charlie Royden, along with Chair of the Brickhill Parish Council Mark Fitzpatrick have declared war on rats.
Email isn't new. It has been around for only one year less than me but is still only patchily used by local parties even though more than four in five voters use email. That is more people with emails than with reachable individual letterboxes in many urban areas, for a start. Indeed: