On the evening of Thursday, 11th July I travelled back to Northampton from my ministerial duties in order to be the keynote speaker at Northampton Academy’s 2nd annual ‘Best in Everyone’ awards evening.
In the last fortnight I had the pleasure as Minister for Transport of launching two key new roads in a new housing development in Wellingborough called Stanton Cross.
The Institute of Advanced Motorists RoadSmart is a long-established charity which promotes safe driving. They have 200 local units based around the country, including one right here in Northampton.
On Friday 5th July at one of my regular Northampton advice surgeries I was pleased to be visited by representatives of Northampton’s Kenyan community (NKC). We spoke about the integration of people of Kenyan descent into British life and Northampton’s community.
On the morning of Sunday, 23rd June I joined dozens of Northampton residents at Abington Park to start a sponsored walk to raise money and awareness in the fight against Alzheimer’s.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is a UK charity (charity number: 289145) which sees more than 80,000 women nationally to provide reproductive healthcare advice and services.
On Tuesday, 6th June 1944 over 100,000 Allied personnel (British, American, Canadian and French soldiers and many more) landed on the beaches of Normandy in what was a significant step in liberating Western Europe from Nazi occupation.
The Queen Eleanor Cross in Northampton is an extremely important 13th Century monument of British history which has been in need of specialist renovation for some time. It last had significant work done in 1984.
