At a recent business event, I was asked a question that regularly comes up - what support there is locally to help grow a business.

It has been said that if you don’t know where you are going, you will never get there.

Last week we marked 100 years since some women (those over 30 and with certain property qualifications) won the right to vote.

A year ago, in January 2017, East Cambridgeshire and Fenland was announced as a designated ‘Opportunity Area’. This meant, that after much campaigning by myself and fellow MP Steve Barclay our area was rightly recognised as an area particularly challenged when it comes to social mobility and cons

It is no big news that January can be a difficult month.

Saturday December 2 was ‘Small Business Saturday’, a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and raise the profile of the great offerings in our independent shops.

Last month’s Autumn Budget brought more money for the NHS, reduced stamp duty for young people and the continuation of the freeze on fuel duty.

Last month’s Autumn Budget is good news for Cambridgeshire

Survey after survey shows that employers value ‘oral communications’ when looking to fill their jobs and yet evidence shows that one of our biggest phobias is speaking in public, apparently even worse than the fear of death.

In her monthly column for the Cambridge Independent, Lucy Frazer, MP for South East Cambridgeshire, talks about the vital role schools play in teaching character and values.