Priti donates £500 to Fairleigh Hospice
The Member of Parliament for Witham, Priti Patel called in to the Farleigh Hospice Shop in Newland Street on Friday, to deliver a cheque for £500. Farleigh Hospice is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and the MP was keen to make her own personal donation to this excellent cause. …
Local MP opens Tiptree’s newest hair salon
The MP for Witham, which includes Tiptree, Priti Patel, was back in the Village on Friday (24th June 2022) to officiate at the formal opening ceremony of the Feathers Hair Salon at 68c Church Road, alongside Feathers partner and owner, Kerry Bush and Salon Manager Jade Pain. The new facility …
Priti Patel lights up Witham’s Platinum Jubilee beacon
Priti Patel, Witham’s MP, was in town on Thursday night (2nd June 2022) to light Witham Town Council’s Platinum Jubilee beacon. The MP joined the Jubilee celebrations on River Walk and lit the beacon at 9.45pm. Witham’s beacon is one of more than 2,000 across the country that were lit …
Priti Patel MP visits Knife Crime Amnesty Event in Witham
Local MP, Priti Patel, visited the Witham Hub in the Grove Centre, Witham on Saturday 21st May, to support a Knife Crime Amnesty organised by Essex Police, taking place during their regular Police Surgery. The event is part of a County wide Knife Amnesty campaign by Essex Police The campaign, …
City status for Colchester is welcomed by Priti Patel MP
Priti Patel MP has joined residents, businesses and other MPs in Essex in celebrating the announcement that Colchester is one of the eight new cities created to mark Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Colchester was one of 38 places considered for this honour and becomes the third place in …
MP’s Get Witham Reading campaign celebrates its tenth anniversary
Priti Patel, the MP for Witham has launched her annual school literacy campaign ‘Get Witham Reading 2022’. The campaign was held for the first time in 2012, when children’s literacy levels in Witham fell below the national average. At the time, 1 in 6 pupils were leaving school without achieving …
Priti Patel MP and ECC Cabinet Member for Highways meet in Tiptree to inspect the Village’s deteriorating roads
At a special summit meeting organised by the Office Priti Patel MP, the Essex County Council Cabinet Member for Highways Maintenance and Sustainable Transport, Cllr Lee Scott, Tiptree Parish Councillors, Sue Allen-Shepherd, Jonathan Greenwood and Stuart Gulleford and Colchester Borough Councillor Roger Mannion have met with Priti to discuss the …
Priti Patel MP visits The Stanway School in Colchester, Essex to talk to students about the key issues
Priti Patel, the Member of Parliament for the Witham constituency, which includes Stanway, has paid a visit to the Stanway School in Winstree Road, to chat to students about their GCSE Citizenship work and projects. Several students contacted Priti with questions on young people in poverty and homelessness which were …
Priti Patel MP unveils Blue Plaque to commemorate the life of Tiptree resident Joy Laurey
Tiptree’s local MP, Priti Patel has unveiled Tiptree’s first ever Blue Plaque in celebration of the life of renowned puppeteer and local resident Joy Laurey. Ms Laurey lived at Well Cottage, Maldon Road, Tiptree for 36 years, where the Plaque was unveiled in a special ceremony on Saturday (30th April …
New Essex Police Local Area Commander meets up with Witham MP
Witham MP, Priti Patel, has met Essex Police’s new North Local Area Commander, Chief Superintendent Claire Talbot. Chief Superintendent Talbot, based in Braintree, took up her new appointment very recently and asked for an introductory meeting with Priti, which took place in central Witham on Saturday. They had a full …