GP practices are the front line of care in our NHS, and I will do all I can to support them. There have been concerns raised about the future of the Folkestone East Family Practice, following the decision of the current managers not to continue with their contract, to deliver services beyond November this year. […]
I was delighted to attend the Gurkha Memorial Fund charity dinner at the Leas Cliff Hall last Friday night. This charity was initially set up to raise money to create the Gurkha Memorial statue, which has quickly established itself as one of the focal points of Christ Church gardens in Folkestone. The statue stands as a physical […]
Select committee chairman Damian Collins says site does not act quickly enough and fake news could pose threat to ‘the integrity of democracy’ Facebook must improve its response to fake news before the UK general election and start blocking or issuing warnings about material that contains falsehoods, the chairman of the Commons culture, media and […]
Damian Collins, chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, has issued a warning to Google and Facebook that they must work to ensure fake news does not interfere with the UK general election. Speaking to Channel 4 News yesterday, Mr Collins, whose Committee is conducting an inquiry into fake news, said that social media […]
The head of UK Athletics has admitted to an “inexcusable” failure by a team doctor to record an injection of a controversial supplement that he administered to Mo Farah. Farah received an injection of L-carnitine, a legal supplement in doses of less than 50ml, before the 2014 London Marathon but it was not registered on […]
Five months into the role of Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the House of Commons, and Damian Collins MP has consolidated a reputation as a well-informed politician with a decent grasp of key issues, ranging from fake news to the complexities of press regulation, post-Leveson. His recent appearance at the Oxford […]
The Department for Education has confirmed that the Folkestone Free School will open in September 2018 as the successor school to Pent Valley. This announcement delivers on the promise made when it was decided that Pent Valley was to close; that there would be a new school to replace it, on the same site, and […]
This week the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has released a new report following its inspection of the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, which provides mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services as well as other specialist services to 1.7 million people across Kent and Medway. The CQC has been able to report on […]
On Wednesday last week, the Prime Minster wrote to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, giving formal notification, under the terms of Article 50, of the intention of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. Since the referendum held on 23rd June last year, the government, with the support of parliament, has […]
The terrorist attack in Westminster on Wednesday last week murdered the lives of innocent people in the name of an undefined cause. Once again, people’s response to those tragic events as they unfolded showed Britain at its best. At 2.40pm that afternoon I was walking, along with a group of around 20 MPs to […]