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In this New Year’s column last year, I made a few predictions for what might happen in 2016. The local ones went ok: I said we’d get to 90% superfast broadband...

This weekend, as you close the door after the last trip to the shops, poor a glass of wine and plonk yourself on the sofa knowing that Christmas can now really...

Published in the Telegraph on 21st December 2016: SIR – This year’s tight electricity margin follows a similar situation last year. National Grid has said that...

James Heappey MP intervened in a debate on Neighbourhood Planning last week. Mr Heappey said: “I intervened a couple of times in the debate on Neighbourhood...

James Heappey MP co-authored an article for The House Magazine with Alan Whitehead MP and Callum McCaig MP on the ways in which we can reduce greenhouse gas...

For all the jobs that have been created locally, we are still not attracting enough working age people to come and settle in our area. The result is an ageing...

Wells MP James Heappey has today welcomed the announcement of the new National School Funding Formula which will bring fairer funding for Somerset’s schools. Mr...

Wells Constituency MP James Heappey visited the Royal Mail’s Delivery Office in Glastonbury to thank local postmen and women for all their hard work during...