My MEP Robert Sturdy has a letter in The Times today stating it is time to ditch the absurd "travelling circus" to Strasbourg following the partial collapse of its ceiling. He says: Surely this is the perfect time to stop throwing away good money after bad....

My son David is taking part in a sponsored punt race in Cambridge this evening, and he has banned me from going to watch. I doubt he will end up with a Cambridge blue as this is his first try at steering the long pole, along with team mates from the city's Dune Shoes...

Because of my increasingly involved role chairing trustees' meetings at Headway Cambridgeshire, I have signed up for a two-day facilitator's course in London next week. I am quite shy in the leadership role and am keen to learn the skills required to carry out this...

On Facebook, I read a message from a Ukranian friend Katerina saying how she was fed up reading "so much contradictions and lies" on British and Russian websites about the situation in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia She has been following the conflict on a blog...

I have a hectic month ahead of me, so I shall be taking a summer break from blogging. We are spending some time in London over the next few days and have booked into a boutique hotel in Covent Garden for a few nights. I am so looking forward to the buzz of city life...

My MEP Robert Sturdy is co-chair of the WTO inter-parliamentary group and was in Geneva last week for the latest Doha trade talks which collapsed. Heated talks among the six core “Doha round” negotiators – India, Brazil, the US, EU, Japan and...

I doubt Gordon Brown was walking along the Southwold promenade today when hundreds of angry protesters demonstrated over government policy of abandoning its crumbling coastline. The Environment Agency plans to withdraw funding for vital flood defences on the...

I breastfed my eldest son David to Countdown and thought I had reared a child genius when he could recite many upper case letters of the alphabet before the age of two, before he could even speak properly. However, he never did master the conundrum or numbers game...