Tragic events of the last few days have left us looking for answers to make sense of it all.

Yeovil MP Marcus Fysh visited Latimer Lodge on Friday 16th June as part of National Care Home Open Day. It was the fifth annual Open Day and the theme for this year was Friendship.

The House of Commons is now on Easter recess and it’s been wonderful spending more time here in Somerset. My family and I had a really good visit to Ham Hill - I understand we are due to have a prolonged spell of good weather and I thoroughly recommend it.

Now that Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty has been invoked to begin the process of the UK leaving the European Union, negotiators on both sides are focusing on the practicalities of our future arrangements.

THE A303 should be the government’s top priority, despite calls to scrap improvements over fears it will devastate the environment, according to South Somerset MP Marcus Fysh.

Last week brought a shocking reminder of both the fragility and the importance of our democracy.

Parliament was in Recess last week and it has been wonderful as a result to spend extended time back in Somerset.

New Year is a time when many of us reflect on the past and look to the future, perhaps getting the opportunity to understand where we have come from and plan or hope for where we are going.

At this time of year I think the need of a place to call "home" is more important than ever.

Housing is one of the topics that features most regularly in the volume of constituent correspondence that I receive.

At the time of writing I am looking forward to tomorrow’s Autumn Statement, in which Phillip Hammond will lay out some of his spending priorities for the next year.