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Should cycle helmets be made compulsory?
This week is Headway's national Action for Brain Injury Week and one of the visitors to our stall at Addenbrooke's Hospital was Dr Mary Archer, chairman of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. I was so impressed. She has wonderful people skills and...
A new dawn for our democracy
A huge weight rests on the shoulders of these 226 newly elected MPs in shaping our future democracy to modernise and help restore public trust in Parliament; they make up more than a third of the 650 MPs in the House of Commons. The new MPs know this too, and that...
Liam Byrne’s tasteless words – no money left, good luck!
Quote of the day: On April 6th, the day that Gordon Brown called the election, Liam Byrne, wrote this email for his successor in the Treasury: "Dear Chief Secretary, I'm afraid there is no money. Kind regards - and good luck! Liam." He might regard those tasteless...
Hazel Blears for Speaker?
Nadine Dorries reminds us that the process for choosing a new Speaker of the House of Commons starts tomorrow, the first day Parliament returns to business. She would clearly like to see the back of John Bercow, reminding us how he was chosen almost entirely by the...
Will Liz Jones take up those kind offers to bail her out of debt?
I too am amazed at the kindness of 4,100 readers who wrote to columnist Liz Jones offering her cash and accommodation after she wrote about her debts and depression. The generosity bestowed on this woman who is employed by the Daily Mail and makes a living by...
A truly historic day
Who would have believed a week ago that a smiling David Cameron and Nick Clegg would be standing side by side outside 10 Downing Street sealing a new coalition government for all the world to see. It is the start of a new democracy as a result of the people's choice...
Quote of the day from David Blunkett
David Blunkett tells the BBC:Any deal with Labour would be "a coalition of the defeated".
The missing – Luke Durbin
It's four years since Luke Durbin went missing as a 19-year-old lad on a night out with friends in Ipswich. He had been missing a year when I first wrote about his disappearance and the torment of his broken hearted mother Nicki who believes he is dead.Tomorrow is the...
My two home towns hit the headlines
As I drove into Wisbech on Saturday to visit my mother, I had to take a detour as I passed the burnt out shell of a public house. An arsonist had struck, a serial arsonist, for the fifth time in six weeks. The people of this Fen town are naturally very nervous. The...