Government must step in and fund brain tumour research! A brain tumour diagnosis is a devastating event in any family and, if you have experienced this, you will know how important it is to find a cure and to find the very best model of care.

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee (of which I am a member) continues to take evidence of the availability of food to consumers during the lockdown (Friday and yesterday).

Boris Johnson’s speech on Sunday set out a future timeline for easing lockdown measures. We are encouraged to go to work if you can with social distancing and exercise more than once a day. The fundamentals haven't changed - the reasons for leaving home remain the same.

MP Derek Thomas has welcomed new Government guidelines which mean that people will be able to travel further for exercise and fresh air (while socially distancing) but which prevent the possible influx of visitors to West Cornwall.

The public is advised to consider wearing face coverings in enclosed public spaces such as shops, trains and buses to help reduce the spread of coronavirus.

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Department of Health and Social Care

It is now almost two months since the people of this country began to put up with restrictions on their freedom – your freedom – of a kind that we have never seen before in peace or war.

And you have shown the good sense to support those rules overwhelmingly.

The minute restaurants, cafes and hotels closed dairy farmers were immediately faced with the problem of surplus milk.

VE Day was to be a great celebration on our streets and I was looking forward to it. VE Day is a bitter-sweet anniversary remembering many who gave the ultimate sacrifice and celebrating the end of this terrible conflict 75 years ago.

Dear Dr Coscelli,

I am writing to you following the CMA announcement last week that its COVID-19 taskforce intends to investigate reports of businesses failing to respect cancellation rights during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

A Government announcement that it will provide local authorities with additional funding to target those small businesses that are not eligible for the current coronavirus grant schemes will be a ‘huge shot in the arm for West Cornwall and Scilly’, says MP Derek Thomas.