St Wilfrid’s Hospice – Business Breakfast
Latest News & Updates
- 27th March 2017
Next week the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50 and Britain will start its journey to leave the European Union.
- 27th March 2017
It was with a sinking heart I heard Nicola Sturgeon speak about her desire to call a second Scottish Independence referendum earlier this week.
- 3rd March 2017
The one to four-year-olds at Camelot Nursery in Lewes Road hadn’t a clue who I was but, like all children, they were mesmerised as I read to them wonderful books such as The Gruffalo and The Smartest Giant in Town.
- 24th February 2017
The House of Lords is having a few weeks in the limelight over its role scrutinising the bill to leave the European Union and the start of a new TV programme about what it does.
- 24th February 2017
“I’m ashamed to be British!” That was how one lady began the conversation at a surgery last weekend
- 10th February 2017
Last Friday, I spent the evening at Eastbourne’s Winter Night Shelter where I was initiated into the delights of Scrabble.
- 10th February 2017
Everyone has seen TV ads for money lending companies, like Quick Quid, who give the impression financial troubles will be put right by borrowing pounds at vast rates of interest...
- 27th January 2017
Today, Friday, marks 72 years since Soviet troops liberated what has now become a byword for horror: the concentration and death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- 23rd January 2017
There is a hidden industry in Eastbourne that visitors flocking to the pier and seafront, rarely hear or see and that’s our fantastic fishing fleet.
- 18th January 2017
A week from today the Western world will have a new leader in the shape of Donald Trump when he becomes the 45th President of the United States.
- 9th January 2017
Unmanageable debt post-Christmas and the January spike in diet club membership are as traditional as ‘the holly and the ivy’ and both reflect significant issues for us to address as individuals and as a society.
- 9th January 2017
Recent news has been eclipsed by the paralysis to train services brought about by union strikes.
- 9th January 2017
For some of us – and for many reasons – Christmas can be a challenging time that brings into sharper focus feelings of isolation and loneliness.
- 9th January 2017
Potentially just as harmful as drugs and alcohol is how the impact of internet porn on our children and young people has been described.
- 9th January 2017
It is a very sobering fact that only in one year since 1945 has there not been a British serviceman or woman killed on active service.
- 9th January 2017
The Boundary Commission is looking at constituency sizes and names across the country - and I've made a submission.
- 14th October 2016
There’s quite a focus on housing this week....
- 30th September 2016
Last week I got to be a studio guest on Radio DGH, a wonderful charity currently broadcasting across the wards of our hospital and soon to go online.
- 6th August 2016
Please sign my WASPI petition for fairer transitional pension arrangements for women born in the 1950's
- 30th July 2016
With Lewes MP Maria Caulfield, I have vowed the campaign for A27 improvements continues after a Westminster meeting with newly appointed roads minister John Hayes.
- 23rd July 2016
I’ve not lost a moment in making sure our new Prime Minister and her new team understand what we need to thrive here in Eastbourne and Willingdon.
- 15th July 2016
This time last week we were preparing to have a long, nine-week election between Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May for the next Prime Minister....
- 9th July 2016
I am backing Theresa May to be the new leader of the Conservative Party, and Prime Minister.
- 27th June 2016
The country has been clear it wants to leave and the result must be recognised and respected.
