Protecting our green spaces from inappropriate housing developments and safeguarding our precious environment.

This has been a pledge since I was first elected as MP in 2010, starting with the Save Fant Farm campaign. We now face challenges with the huge Bradbourne and Broadwater Farm developments in the Mallings, and the threat to Bunyards Farm in Allington

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Maidstone's Air Quality

Driving across the junction of Stone Street and Knightrider Street in Maidstone recently I was enveloped by a cloud of black smoke.  I had to close my windows and hold my breath for a few seconds until the car in front stopped spewing out acrid exhaust fumes that would put a 1950’s bus to shame.

Maidstone Bus Committee

I’ll never forget the anxiety I felt as a little girl, waiting for a school bus that never arrived, or even more soul destroying, watching it fly past me without stopping.  It didn’t matter how prepared I was for my day, if I was late for school I knew it would annoy my teachers, disrupt the rest

KM Column: 2018, A Year in Review

In many ways 2018 has been a difficult year with the all-encompassing nature of the Brexit debate dominating the political sphere.

Reporting Back

Hello again everyone. 2018 has, inescapably, been the year of the 'B' word for us all and it seems certain that the Brexit saga will run for many more episodes, all the way into the next decade.