What are they hiding?

Recently, on the 25th April, the District Council met and there were a number of items under Exempt (this is Council speak for Confidential).  We have released a press release about it which you can read here and from the excerpt below you can see we tried to have this heard in Public. At the meeting on …

Rochford Council Ignore Vote?

During the recent County Council Elections one of the most common questions I was asked related in some way to the downgrading of Southend A&E. Both the Green Party and the Rochford District Residents already felt that these proposals deserved a full airing at Rochford Council's next meeting, which was to be held on 25 …

Rochford Citizen of the Year

This evening I have been attending the Rochford Citizen of the Year Award.  This is an annual ceremony to celebrate the best of the District. There are three catagories and the winners were Young Citizen - Chloe Good Charitable Support - Clair Hawtree Community Spirit - Georgie & Andrew Watson There is then an overall …

An end and a new begining

  On Thursday we had an election for Essex County Council and after serving as their County Councillor for four years the residents of Hockley and Hullbridge decided that they didn't want me anymore but would rather have the Conservative candidate (Actually the vote in Hullbridge was overwhelmingly for me, it's just Hockley is a …

A Resurrected Blog

In 2013 I was elected as County Councillor for Rochford West, the time involved meant I could no longer keep up with this Blog and after a number of failing attempts I finally gave up posting anything in 2015. However following on from yesterdays election I am no longer a County Councillor and I am determined …