Like many of you, I felt some sadness when last week I heard that this would be the last edition of the Morley & District Press. 

I recently paid a visit to Brenda’s forced rhubarb farm in Kirkhamgate, within the famous rhubarb triangle. Brenda’s farm is a shining example of local entrepreneurship continuing in the tradition passed down by generations, indeed almost all of the work is still done by hand.

Improving transport is a key part of my plan locally and I am therefore pleased that a focus of the Government is to take action to improve regional rail links.

It has been another busy week in Parliament and here at home.

It has been another busy week in Parliament and here at home.

After three and a half long years we have now, finally, left the European Union.

We are all about to live through one of the most historic events in our lifetimes. At 11:00pm on January 31st, the end of this week, the United Kingdom will exit the European Union. As regular readers will know I have long stood up for our democracy and for our status as a self-governing nation.

The darkest moment in human history must never repeated, we must never forget the horrors of the Holocaust.

Britain is changing but we CANNOT abandon our towns, says ANDREA JENKYNS

WHEN I got my first job in a Greggs bakery at 16, I would have never thought that I would have been elected to Parliament one day.

My regular column in today's Morley & District Press covers Drighlington library, the Big Brexit Bash, and my regular Memory Cafe: