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The wonderful Herefordshire Food Alliance has organised delicious harvest meals cooked from 100% local Herefordshire produce - because you can eat breakfast, lunch and dinner grown in our wonderful county! The breakfast was hosted by the inimitable Regen Ben at...

It was very useful to meet the Chair and Managing Director of Herefordshire General Practice, which brings together the 19 GP practices in Herefordshire. I was surprised to hear that while 90% of NHS contacts are primary care, only 8% of UK health funding goes to...

Dates 3 and 4 of my Village Hall Tour took me to Brimfield and Bromyard! It was great to answer questions and I received some lovely feedback from audience members afterwards. People seem to really appreciate the fact that I’m reaching out and listening to people’s...

Fascinating to visit Herefordshire and Worcestershire Group training (HWGTA). It was great to chat to so many engineering apprentices in the workshops. I share their enthusiasm for this very practical work-based approach to learning and training! They are holding an...

The Trumpet Ploughing Match is a wonderful celebration of local traditions and skills. I had a great time there this morning chatting with local farmers. It's a serious technical business and the judges have a keen eye! And I won a prize in the domestic section....

It was great to be at the official opening of the new Halo Leisure Hereford Cycle Track! It is such a brilliant facility for all of Herefordshire. And it was wonderful to meet the inspirational cyclist and campaigner Chris Boardman MBE at the opening. Chris is a...

Really good to meet Alison Stemp, Patient Experience Manager at Wye Valley NHS Trust, to chat about the work her team does to improve the patient experience. Fantastic to learn more about the amazing support given by so many volunteers to help support patients and...

It was fantastic to meet 100-year-old Nancy May at the Shell Store open day! She used to work in the Shell Store when it was a munitions factory in WW2. The building was turned into a high quality co-working, event and office space when I was cabinet member for...

Really interesting visit to Tom Jay's farm at Derndale near Wellington last week with Herefordshire Local Nature Partnership. Tom explained how he's worked with local partners to develop nature-based solutions to the problem of flooding: win-win for him as a farmer,...

I enjoyed a wonderful day out campaigning in Ledbury on Saturday! Thank you to all the volunteers that turned out to help, and to everyone that gave us such a warm welcome on their doorstep on a very warm day!