On Friday 5th April I had an enjoyable visit to St Barnabas First and Middle School. I watched a Year 5 class Collective Worship session and had the pleasure of giving out Headteacher Awards before facing Year 7 students for "St Barnabas Parliamentary Question Time."

I was delighted to attend the fundraising breakfast buffet on Saturday, hosted by the Mayor and Mayoress of Evesham. For a small contribution, we received all you can eat breakfast and the contributions went to Evesham Shopmobility, Caring Hands in the Vale and Evesham Guides.

On Saturday, I joined 40 other local residents from the Evesham Anti Litter Group to help with The Great British Spring Clean and was thrilled to hear this was the biggest turn-out they've had with people wanting to get involved to #KeepBritainTidy.

I welcome the announcement that Great Western Railway will be introducing a Delay Repay scheme for passengers.  This long-awaited improvement to GWR’s compensation scheme is due to launch on 1st April 2019 and means that customers with single, return or weekly tickets will be able to claim compen

I welcome the commencement of the final phase of the scheme to fully dual the A4440 Southern Link Road. This follows an announcement earlier this month that the Government had approved almost £55 million of funding for the project from the Large Local Majors Fund.

Thank you to the chairman of Ombersley parish council and local residents for inviting me to the official opening of the refurbished Main Hall at Ombersley Memorial Hall. 

I had a very productive meeting with professional footballer David Stockdale and Wayne Oliver to discuss exciting plans for Droitwich Spa FC and Droitwich sport in general. I look forward to doing whatever I can to help them fulfil their exciting plans for football and sport in the town.

My weekend started with a very enjoyable visit to the pancake morning at Evesham Baptist Church. The annual event is held as part of Fairtrade Fortnight and we had some productive discussions over chocolate pancakes about how the Fairtrade initiative can be supported. 

I had the pleasure of visiting Buzz Electrical in Evesham on Friday, which was celebrating its 20th anniversary. I particularly enjoyed meeting the team - many of whom had participated in Buzz Electrical's award winning apprenticeship programme. 

I had a great evening at the Rural Business Awards on Thursday, which were held at the Chateau Impney hotel in Droitwich.