Over 1,000 new phone boxes were installed last year by BT, despite even more people turning to mobiles. Even if they are  wanted and needed, they do not need to be large glass boxes. I question the need for so many.

It’s the same with public toilets. What people want is one safe, clean and accessible public toilet in each town centre, preferably with an attendant. I think clear minimum standards for public toilets is long overdue.

Well done the Legal Services Ombudsman for sticking the boot in on greedy solicitors. She wants everyone to be paid out in full and so do I. It is amazing that there are still people out there who had many hundreds of pounds deducted who have still not come forward. It is not too late to do so.

My first gravestones cases are well under way now. I am asking the Speaker for a full debate in Parliament on this national disgrace. The state of our cemeteries in Retford and Worksop and Langold is an embarrassment to us all. And the failure to pay families for their distress at unnecessary staking is an insult to injury.

The gravediggers and other workman are not in the slightest to blame. Indeed they should have the work in-house rather than outside contractors being brought in..

I hear that A1 Housing wish to take on new build work. I think this would be a good thing. The return to the option of council’s building new homes is overdue and I am pleased that this can now happen. The huge demand in Bassetlaw is for small pensioner bungalows for rent and not too expensive. I believe that at least 1,000 such bungalows are needed to be built.

I am a bit unpopular in Westminster. Not only have I exposed the scandal of MPs using Parliamentary dining rooms to fundraise for themselves, with ex-Portland School lad Kevin Jones MP,  but now I am the public voice from the backbenchers arguing against a huge pay increase for MPs.

I do not see what is so special about MPs that they should get a bigger increase than other public sector workers. I will not vote for this huge increase and I will laugh off the barbed comments in the corridors of Westminster by publicly arguing the case against an above inflation increase.