Politics

While Brexit may have dominated the headlines this week, Bassetlaw councillors have been busy planning for the future growth and success of the district, writes Coun Simon Greaves.

They called it the meaningful vote on Tuesday, but in reality it was the meaningless vote, because all it did was to allow the Government to proceed to a Bill on the final part of leaving the EU by March 29, writes John Mann MP.

Rother Valley MP calls for the PM to quit and call a general election

Nottinghamshire County Council’s Local Improvement Scheme (LIS) capital fund is a great example of how the council is helping local communities to help themselves, writes Coun John Handley, vice-chairman of the communities and place committee.

Parliament re-opened on Monday and things immediately got cracking, writes John Mann MP.

NHS staff work long hours, often in difficult circumstances, writes Sir Kevin Barron MP.

Happy new year and I hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas, writes Coun Simon Greaves.

Figures for last year show that police numbers are now at the lowest level in three decades, writes Sir Kevin Barron MP.

So we will be voting on Brexit on January 14, writes John Mann MP.

The period between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is a great opportunity to reflect on the year just past, writes John Mann MP.

To Britain’s national shame, thousands of people will sleep rough on park benches and shop doorways this winter, writes Sir Kevin Barron MP.

Cash-strapped Bassetlaw District Council has confessed it cannot afford to make car parking in Retford town centre free for the whole year.

With just a few days to go before the big day, I’d like to start this column by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year, writes Coun Simon Greaves.

I am delighted that this week we have finally seen a proposal to ban banks from charging rip-off unarranged overdraft fees that regularly penalised the most vulnerable customers and cost some people thousands of pounds a year, writes Sir Kevin Barron MP.

I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Levels of food poverty in this country are shameful, writes Rory Palmer MEP.

Travel company Eurotunnel, which transports more than two million cars per year from Britain to the EU, has launched a series of post-Brexit travel support pages on its website.

This week, I raised the issue at Northern Ireland Parliamentary Question Time about the fact that there is not a dedicated memorial in the UK to those that lost their lives in the conflict in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, writes John Mann MP.