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I welcomed the government announcing it wants to ban the sale of machetes and zombie knives along with tougher prison terms for those who sell and possess them. 

I have been campaigning for action as the West Midlands has the highest rate of knife crime in England and Wales. 

I am supporting a call for supermarkets to highlight the very best of produce by incorporating a ‘Buy British’ section online.

I will support new legislation forcing convicted criminals to attend court for sentence and to hear from their victims’ families.

I know many people in Stourbridge are as upset as me over the devastating fire and then demolition of the Crooked House Pub.

I visited major local employer Argus Fire to meet its apprentices and have a chat with management.

I caught up recently with executive director Simon Woodings and administrator Rachel Burford-Turner of the fire prevention firm.

Parliament is now in summer recess but just before we adjourned, the Illegal Migration Bill finished its passage through both Houses of Parliament. It now awaits Royal Assent to become the law.

I met with the group wanting to open a cinema on the site of the former Chicago’s nightclub in the town.

Cradley and Wollescote allotment has received free skips to help tidy up after I joined forces with local company Pegasus to deliver them.

The tragic death of a 16-year-old who was fatally stabbed in Stourbridge at the weekend has rightly concerned residents.
 

At the weekend I popped into Camphill Village Trust’s coffee morning and cake sale on Saturday in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.