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Why isn’t £2.50 a day value for money for Alzheimer sufferers?
I don't understand the reasons for NICE's refusal to allow Alzheimer sufferers access to drugs costing £2.50 a day at the early stage of this terrible, soul destroying illness. There was enough evidence on the news this morning from sufferers who described the...
Defra drowns in its inefficiency
I was hoping someone from Defra with a nuance of intelligence would have picked up on some of excellent points raised in this Sunday Times article on freeing our congested roads by using our rivers and sea more. Each barge can carry the equivalent of more than 20...
Norfolk’s 100-year-old parish councillor still going strong
No wonder so many A-listers want a Norfolk seat, it is the perfect base for a healthy, politically active life, as Jack Chase, will vouch, who is 100 today and still serving as a parish councillor. He is almost certainly the country's oldest parish councillor and...
Let’s hope India’s racehorse buyers will soon return to the UK
The UK has been losing millions of pounds in racehorse sales due to an over-stringent ban imposed by the Indian government which my MEP Robert Sturdy is hoping to have lifted. The ban has been in place for the last five years following the outbreak of a single known...
Adam Rickitt makes next Norfolk round
Former Coronation Street star Adam Rickitt is a step closer to seeing his dream realised and becoming a Norfolk MP. He was one of 10 A-listers selected to go through to the next round next weekend, though unfortunately neither of the two local candidates, including...
Only cowards fear the truth
I was deeply saddened to learn of the brutal assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, Russian's most famous investigative journalist. She was returning home from a shopping trip when she was gunned down in the lift of her apartment block in Moscow. It was an apparent...
Back to the classroom for me
I believe strongly in lifelong learning, gaining new knowledge, so it's back to the classroom for me. I had missed the deadline for my proposal for an Open University MPhil (I wanted to do Social Science Research), so I have signed up for the CIPR diploma, which is...
The most courageous woman of the year
A book and a film are certain to follow the conviction of a brutal murderer who 17 years strangled a 22-year-old woman. Twice a jury failed to convict him and the labourer was acquitted. But it was the gritty determination of the woman's broken-hearted mother to see...
20 Tory candidates want new Norfolk seat
An astounding 18 of David Cameron's A-listers will be heading for East Anglia tomorrow, including Adam Rickitt and Louise Bagshawe, hoping to be picked for the true blue hotspot of Mid-Norfolk. There are 20 candidates in all on the shortlist for this new constituency,...