As a candidate for my home town in May's local elections, I've helped residents fight for repairs to roads, I've lobbied for more action on dog mess and I've campaigned to prevent closures to residential homes.
For over a year now, my condition has meant that I've started to use a wheelchair more frequently, and this has definitely taught me a lot about the people around me and strangers in the street. Sometimes it's difficult to self-propel myself in my chair, and I'll ask family members to help me. This is totally OK. However, what isn't OK is people just randomly starting to push me. This goes for family members and strangers.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has accused the government of a "callous lack of urgency" as it emerges that the government has still not completed its application to the EU Solidarity Fund to help areas affected by last December's devastating floods.
Local MP Tim Farron has called for an inquiry into hospital procedures, following further revelations that vulnerable people are being discharged from hospital without appropriate care and travel arrangements being put in place.
In a report published yesterday on behalf of the National Farmers Union the agricultural research institute LEI Wageningen found that under any possible trade deal British farmers would be worse off and prices for shoppers would rise. The report looked at a free trade arrangement with the EU, like the one with Canada widely proposed by "Leave" campaigners, one governed by World Trade Organisation rules and a third variant with lower tarrifs. The report showed that prices would rise by between 5% and 8% under the first two agreements. Under the third, prices would fall but farming would be unprofitable causing farmers to go out of business and production to collapse.