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.

An annual survey of ministerial appointments, just compiled, shows that nearly half of new appointments to public roles are women.

Lucy Frazer, Conservative MP for South East Cambridgeshire writes exclusively for the Cambridge Independent on how we can meet the need to train the future workforce

Last Friday was the anniversary of the death of my colleague, Jo Cox, who was murdered because she stood up for what she believed in and placed herself in the public eye by standing for office.