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Planning is an issue that never fails to be contentious. From the unwelcome extension on a neighbour’s property, to the thousand or more residential...

Few could fail to have been stunned by the recent appalling violence. Hordes of right wing thugs, rampaging through the streets of towns and cities across the...

Parliament breaks up for the summer recess this week. But in the last couple of days of term, there was no disappointment. Tuesday’s announcement of planning...

On the Parliamentary sweepstake of when Labour would suffer its first rebellion, I don’t think anyone had the second day of the King’s Speech debate. And it is...

There is no ambiguity about the outcome of last week’s general election. Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has secured 412 of the 650 Parliamentary seats available...

We have done really well, here in Wyre Forest, from government assistance. Frankly, quite right too. I have argued for many years that Kidderminster, in...

This week’s announcement about so called mickey mouse degrees is, for me, ironic. I had written a column for this week’s Kidderminster Shuttle about exactly...

You can tell an election is coming up. Kier Starmer has announced his 6 priorities for the next Labour government. There will be a lot of opportunities for...

Last week saw the surprise defection of the MP for Dover. Natalie Elphicke had been elected as the MP back in 2019, as the Conservative candidate. After...