It was announced this morning that Heathfield Youth Centre is to benefit from more than £5 million of investment secured by East Sussex County Council from the Government’s Youth Investment Fund.

It is an exceptionally rare experience in one's life in which you find yourself thinking ‘how on earth did, of all people on this earth, me, end up here?’ And yet that was me on my work experience week, which was, quite frankly, crazy and incredible in equal measures.

Bexhill MP, Huw Merriman, welcomed school council representatives from Little Common Primary School to the Houses of Parliament last week.

During his visit to the school last year, Huw invited the school councillors to Parliament to see where MPs worked.

The consultation on proposed changes to train station ticket offices in England has been extended until 1 September. 

On Tuesday evening, the Illegal Migration Bill – a vital piece of legislation designed to fulfil the Government’s pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel – took an important step to becoming law.

Huw has welcomed the announcement that the government is inviting community organisations to bid for funding for a defibrillator for their area.

There has been a significant shift in the way passengers purchase tickets with just one in every 10 transactions taking place at a ticket office in 2022/23, down from one in three a decade earlier. Some 99% of all transactions can now be completed online or at ticket machines.

We will have all felt the effect of rising prices each time we visit the supermarket. The UK is not alone in facing these challenges, with other countries also experiencing a cost-of-living squeeze.

MP for Bexhill and Battle, Huw Merriman MP, joined train company Southern and community representatives from along the East Sussex coast at a forum in Cooden Beach, near Bexhill, earlier this month.

I have written to the CEO of Ofwat asking for an update on what Ofwat has asked of South East Water in relation to the company’s investment in making their network more resilient which justify the extra charges which have been applied to customers’ bills for this purpose.  You can read the full l