Caroline Ansell has urged the government to make cuckooing - where offenders take over someone’s home for criminal purposes - a crime when she spoke in parliament this week.
In times past, Eastbournians had a tram, our visitors could travel the seafront by goat chaise and there was an airstrip, now under the Sovereign Centre. The Eastbourne we know today really began to find form with the coming of the railway.
The Prime Minister has succeeded in his pledge to halve inflation and he has done so ahead of schedule. The rate is now 4.7 %, still elevated but much improved on more than 10% not long ago due to the war in Ukraine and post-pandemic supply issues.
Caroline Ansell invited the boss of local green energy firm OHM to Downing Street recently to meet the Education Secretary at the Local Skills Champions Reception.
Eastbourne and Willingdon MP Caroline Ansell has been pounding the streets signing up local people for her free slow-release water butt project to combat flooding in the town.
This week marked The State Opening of Parliament and The King’s Speech. It’s also UK Parliament Week - an annual event for young people to find out more about how our democracy works and how people can get involved with the issues they care about.
Parliament is ‘prorogued’ this week. This is the official name for the period between the formal close of a parliamentary session and the beginning of the new, marked by the State Opening of Parliament and King’s Speech on Tuesday – the first in more than seven decades.