For well over a year there’s been a steady trickle of local families with autistic children coming to my weekly surgery. They’ve been having problems getting the all-important diagnosis to unlock vital extra funds and support at school. Some of them are having to wait months or even years to…
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Minister of State for the North, John Penrose, has said action is needed to tackle unregulated activity on Lough Foyle. He promised London will work with Dublin to ensure aquaculture is properly regulated on the waterway. Mr. Penrose made the commitments after DUP MP Gregory Campbell queried the extent of diplomatic…
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If you listen to the sober-sided, serious economists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, or to the Chancellor Philip Hammond himself, you’d think the Conservative leadership election is a horrible bidding war of doolally spending promises from Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson. Has the party of sound money lost its…
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Article originally posted in The Telegraph. “Just answer the b****y question!” The heckler was a Conservative Party member, irritated at a candidate who wasn’t answering crisply enough at one of the leadership hustings. But it could have been anyone at home, yelling at the radio or the telly as yet…
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