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Totally surprised & very touched to receive GlobalNCAP Award at #NCAP24 this evening. It has been a great journey from beginnings of Euro NCAP in 1996 to see such global growth in vehicle star ratings help to build a market for safer cars worldwide.

He’s a class act that Vernon Coaker

Congratulations to all for your amazing input and efforts National Fire Chiefs Council David O'Neill MBE FIA and all the partners and volunteers 🙏🙏🙏❤️

Great to be jointly hosting #NCAP24 in Munich today with our partners Euro NCAP ADAC. A unique GlobalNCAP meeting bringing together NCAPs worldwide with key stakeholders committed to building a market for safer vehicles & meeting UN #50by30 target to halve road deaths by 2030.

You can also sign up for a night reflecting on 30 years since death of John Smith at Mile End Institute

And keep your eyes peeled for our special John Smith retrospective this May with some top speeches selected by David Ward 👀

NEWS: bosses in Medway aren't happy with the response they've had from the roads minister after for extra cash to fix roads in the Towns #kmfmnews kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/we…

Worrying that Tenterden seems to have been left out of Kent County Council ‘pothole blitz’ in Ashford area. See important Chantal Weller KentOnline report: kentonline.co.uk/tenterden/news…. I hope promised repairs to Beacon Oak Rd will be a lasting rebuild & not another temporary ‘patch & dash’.

Funny how much air time being given to Lizz Truss…

Under the Tories, over 1,000 shoplifting offences are being committed daily - while their shoplifter’s charter encourages police not to investigate thefts under £200.

Labour will scrap this rule and deliver 13,000 more neighbourhood police and PCSOs.

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Postal votes have arrived for Kent’s Police & Crime Commissioner. After 14 years of Tory failure & cuts in neighbourhood policing, we need to restore trust that our streets are safe. Kent needs change & new leadership. That’s why I’m voting for Lenny Rolles The Labour Party candidate.

High five Tracy For Mayor 🌹 Andy Burnham for dancing the night away Burrow Strictly Ball. Your support MND Association means so much to every family affected by this cruel disease. This short video about our son Alex shows why for Emma_MacLennan & me. #United2EndMND youtube.com/watch?v=lqXCej…

Utterly shambolic.

We’ve known for years that the new border procedures are coming, yet we’ve seen NO leadership from the Home Office or the local MP.

Dover will be in crisis in October due to failure to plan long term.

#GeneralElectionN0W

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Timely reminder of the importance of the coast, coastal communities and coastal towns to Labour - one of the reasons LCC was set up - to help ensure their voice is heard by Labour Keir Starmer Angela Rayner 🌹 Jonathan Reynolds Darren Jones MP

Wonderful Skep Arts show in Tenterden tonight at the Barn Theatre Smallhythe Place. ‘Never Work’ with Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom + Shotgun Jimmie took us time travelling to the AI future with a robot drummer in a witty & inventive show. Great fun on chilly night in Weald of Kent.

Looking forward to this John Smith anniversary event. I will rebut ‘one more heave’ fallacy used by some in New Labour to disparage a great Labour leader. Tony Blair was lucky to inherit The Labour Party leadership from Smith whose legacy as agent of change & progress is underestimated.

Excellent article Shaun Spiers on how to avoid ‘green belt wars’. Important advice for The Labour Party.

Steve Reed Flood risk is a major issue in the village of Yalding, near Maidstone, in the Weald of Kent. Thanks for your leadership on this important issue. A review of flood defences here would be much appreciated. See: kentlive.news/news/kent-news…

We are a country locked in with bad men since 2010, and nobody is coming with misappropriated funds to rescue us. We can only hope that the bad men realise they've already cleaned out our accounts, crawl back under whatever rock they came from, and allow us to choose change soon.

French TV reporting the shocking state of our pothole plagued roads…