My letter to Someset Standard, 7 February 2013: “I am pleased to report that, after residents expressed concerns about the security of the old Showfield (to me as one of the ward councillors, and in this paper in January), a meeting was held soon after between officers of Mendip District Council and the Frome & […]

Local residents have been asking me and other councillors what plans there are in place in Mendip for people that are Rough Sleeping in the current severe cold weather.   An emergency plan is meant to be activated to find people sleeping rough and get them into the warm, so people are checking exactly what was being done.  The […]

The new Frome Health Centre is expected to open in January on the old Showfield.  The developers are contributing £38,000 for improvements and enhancements to the facilities at the Showfield, with nearly £5800 also for public consultation, through a ‘Section 106 agreement’ agreed with Mendip District Council.  Frome Town Council has been given an addition sum […]

I like and would recommend these recent posts from other local councillors: – Inspiring a Generation – Maggy Daniell, Somerset County Councillor, Frome Selwood division: http://maggydaniell.mycouncillor.org.uk/  – Pigeons, pigeons everywhere! – Sam Phripp, Mendip District Councillor, Frome Berkley Down ward: http://samphripp.mycouncillor.org.uk/ – Lib Dems: the Biggest reform of social care for over 60 years: Damon […]

Last week, many residents contacted councillors, including Helen Sprawson-White (Lib Dem, Oakfield) and others to complain about the number of lorries travelling through the town, on their way to and from the construction site of Frome Medical Practice’s new surgery development next to the hospital at the Old Shoground on Rodden Road.  I and other councillors worked to […]

Letter to Somerset Standard, 22 September 2011: “Dear Editor, Some local residents contacted me this week as they came across yet more serious flytipping along a long stretch of Berkley Lane to the north of Frome, next to my ward, where the roadside, verges and field entrances on and near the bridge over the Frome […]

Dear Editor, Fellow Mendip District Councillor Sam Phripp and I recently met the Matron of our Frome Community Hospital to discuss the services the hospital provides (see earlier story and Sam Phripp’s). While I am querying whether the MIU can always prescribe for minor illnesses out of hours, the hospital has an impressively wide range […]

At the recent Liberal Democrats Spring Conference, party members voted overwhelmingly against the Conservative Party’s proposed marketisation of the NHS. They voted for more accountability and openness in the health service, for safeguards against ‘cherry-picking’ by private sector providers, and against the undermining of local NHS services. In defending the NHS in this way, ordinary […]