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VILLAGE HALL NEWS candidates. This means that the whips office will continue delivering government
business throughout this period to ensure the smooth running of parliament and
government. I very much hope to update you in my next column about how
AGM extras things have progressed, and my new role in the whips’ office.
Due to the unexpected delay in holding the AGM I By the time you read this,
am also pleased to be able to include our it is likely that there will
platinum jubilee celebrations in my report. I’ve only be two remaining
been saying for the last two years that when this is candidates, with the
over we’d have a party to head all parties and celebrate being able to mix winner to be announced
together once again. Although covid isn’t over it does for now seem to be under in a matter of weeks. I
some sort of control at least as far as severe illness and death goes. So when a will be spending much of
once in British history opportunity comes along in the form of her Majesty Queen the summer in Dorset
Elizabeth II achieving 70 years on the throne, our longest reigning monarch in and so please do stop
history, there’s was nothing for it but to hold the party of all parties. me for a chat when you
Along with individuals in the parish, the social club and the church, the village hall see me out and about.
played its part in an amazing four day party with bbqs, lighting of the beacon, a If you need to get in
ceilidh, a street party and a church service and picnic to round it all off. We touch, you can contact
partied like never before and even when it rained about ten o clock the dancing me via email michael.tomlinson.mp@parliament.uk or call my office on 01202
in the street outside continued at least until the heavens really opened when the 624216. I send out a regular email update – you can sign up on
hardened partygoers retreated to the hall and social club and carried on my website www.michaeltomlinson.org.uk where you can also
dancing. I cannot possibly mention everyone involved but I want to extend a find links to what I’ve been doing locally and in Parliament &
huge thank you to one and all none of it would have been possible without all of information such as updates & energy price advice.
you taking part. And there are plans afoot to produce a memory album of the
whole event.
Chairman’s annual reports are by their very nature a look back at what’s
happened but as we emerge from he effects a of covid I also, this year, want to
look forward. We are so very fortunate to have a facility like this village hall in
what is such a relatively small community and it’s right that we not only look after
it and maintain it but we keep it at the cutting edge.

I’ve lost count of the number of people who come in here and marvel at our LOCAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
kitchen facilities alongside such an old romantic building as a thatched village
hall and it’s thanks to members of the community and previous trustees that we
have such good facilities and so should I be asked to remain as chairman for Michael Tomlinson MP 
Michael.tomlinson.mp@parliament.uk
another year I would like to see our hall look to take a lead in becoming as holds regular surgeries
carbon neutral and efficient as humanly possible. I’m hoping that we can look at in the constituency. For  01202 624216
our heating system and maybe pick up and continue the efficient underfloor details of forthcoming www.michaeltomlinson.org.uk
heating we have in the new part of the building to see what can be done in the surgeries or to make an 
main hall. It would be great to not only be Russian oil free but to be oil free.
appointment, please @Michael4MDNP
There’s also a vast area of warmed air above our heads just lurking there waiting contact his office.
to go cold, maybe we can recirculate that air collecting it’s heating and putting

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