Month: December 2023

Richard Foord MP raises Seaton Hospital at the highest levels of the NHS

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Richard has met, separately, with Professor Stephen Powis, National Medical Director of NHS England (below), and Dr Emily Lawson, Chief Operating Officer, to discuss how we can save Seaton Hospital. She agreed to help facilitate a direct meeting with NHS Property Services, and Richard will be urging them to return the community-funded wing back to local hands.

Tory councillor who helped ditch Stop Line Way canvassing for new multi-use trail in Sid Valley

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Cllr Stuart Hughes, Conservative county councillor for Sidmouth and cabinet member for Highways, is promoting the Sid Valley trail. But when I was county councillor, he refused to continue with the Stop Line Way trail, already approved as long ago as 2010 – sections between Colyford and Axminster were ditched, and only the missing link in the Wetlands would be completed. It’s all very well developing new projects, but typically the Conservatives abandoned the Axe Valley. Mind you, that was in the days when they thought we had no alternative.

Consultation on Sid Valley Multi – Use Trail
— Read on http://www.stuarthughes.org/post/consultation-on-sid-valley-multi-use-trail