The Litton Tree pub in Retford has had 67 police visits for disturbances so far this year. I am sure there are a few other pubs in this area where there are regular police call outs.

We pay for these call outs, as we do for late night policing and recently 4am licences have been granted in both Worksop and Retford. The all night licensing was the worst decision that the last Labour government made and it is one that this Government is not intending to change. Both are wrong.

By having police based in our town centres in significant numbers on a weekend means we lose police on the streets at other times. Yet those making vast profits through late licensing contribute nothing. Why have the police not challenged these late licences?

I welcome a full debate on alcohol issues, which are certainly diverting away valuable police resources, as is a second area of police work: cover for football matches.

Every major football match requires policing that we pay for and this also needs to be looked at. When top footballers are earning many millions in wages then I do not see why these clubs cannot pay for the policing that is required.  Whilst the police are at the matches it takes them off the streets from all over the country.

An extraordinary document has hit my desk from Nottinghamshire County Council proposing that Bassetlaw council taxpayers need to stump up £804,210 to get high speed broadband installed in the area, whilst Ashfield should only pay £69,000 and leafy suburban Gedling having to find £89,000.

What a nonsense, especially as Bassetlaw’s finances have yet to recover from the lost £8 million in its Icelandic bank fiasco, money that has not yet been regained. The Government keeps trumpeting that every area will have access to high speed broadband by 2015, well where is the money?

I have clarified through Freedom of Information that two Council Aldermen get a free car park pass from Bassetlaw Council. Why should they be able to do their Saturday morning shopping for free when the rest of us have to pay 60p an hour. Indeed why do we need Aldermen at all in this day and age?