Last week I held a round table with small businesses at the Parade Cinema in Marlborough to discuss the challenges of accessing and accepting cash, once the High Street loses its last remaining business bank - Lloyds - in November. I have since also met with Lloyds Bank themselves.
I visited the village of Allington near Devizes this week to see the impact of the recent flooding. Councillor Paul Oatway and I met residents Neil and Sion Allen, whose house has been flooded four times in the past few months, along with their neighbour Lavinia Postlethwaite.
In All Cannings on Friday I met Peter Cooper and Tracey at the All Cannings Community Shop, to show my support for their bid to the Government's Community Ownership Fund.
I am proud to serve the constituency with the largest number of British soldiers in the country, and to be the MP for a vast number of veterans living in Wiltshire.
Last month I wrote to the Chief Executive of the Canal & River Trust following up on the concerns of several of my constituents, regarding the CRT’s proposal to raise boat licence fees above inflation for the next 5 years and the introduction of a surcharge for those boaters without a permane
I spent yesterday afternoon in Chilton Foliat, first with the 'Eco Committee' of the village primary school discussing ways to protect our precious chalk streams, and then with a large group of residents and representatives from Thames Water, discussing the flooding in the village and the work TW
Following a recent meeting with the Marlborough Business Networking, the closure of the town's last remaining business bank and the problems with accessing and depositing cash were raised.
National Highways will be holding a series of public meetings over the coming weeks to give the local community the opportunity to meet the project team and ask any questions they may have about the current A360 closure and our upcoming preliminary and archaeological work.
