It was a pleasure to be asked by Marc Kings from Direct Sports Provision to open the PE & Sports Conference at Pershore this morning, promoting physical and mental wellbeing at schools and helping teachers with their professional development.

Thank you to Cherril and Derrick Barker of JMDA Design for taking the time to show me around and talk about your business.

Last weekend, I attended another great annual, fun, family event in the Vale of Evesham: the Evesham Mop.

I had a great time on the Ferris Wheel and sampling the great food vans - a burger at a fair is the definition of comfort eating.

It was good to catch up with the local West Mercia police team last week at the wonderful Dolphin Pub in Bishampton at a community coffee morning.

While the weather was nice I recently visited Spetchley Park Gardens and, along Jak Abrahams from BASC, I placed a bird box within the grounds as part of BASC's nationwide bird conservation project.

This Sunday I'm supporting Silver Sunday in my constituency. Silver Sunday is a day to celebrate and cherish the older people in our families and communities and encourage activities, days out and events which connect the old, young and everyone in-between.

I was delighted to have been at the opening of the care floor at Richmond Villages Wood Norton Retirement Village, which along with the rest of the village will provide its residents with a state of the art home for the elderly, the frail and those suffering with dementia, providing them with all

On Saturday I celebrated with hundreds of my namesake to break the world record attempt for the having the largest gathering of people named Nigel and Nigella in one place.

I was delighted to join in with the launch of the 'Moving Forward' initiative on Friday, to help enable social mobility, skills advancement and community engagement in Westlands Droitwich.

I really enjoyed my visit to St Richard's First School in Evesham where I met and had a chat with the representatives from the student parliament.