Kingston Hospital’s Accident and Emergency and Maternity Unit are under threat – as Susan Kramer MP explained last week in The Informer.

I want to repeat her warning, as some are questioning whether our claims are true.

So who are our sources?

Four NHS Chief Executives and one senior clinician.

Susan Kramer and I have vowed to fight plans to close A&E and Maternity services at Kingston Hospital.

Senior NHS staff have blown the whistle on Labour proposals to close Accident and Emergency services and Maternity services at Kingston Hospital.

Please sign the petition on www.savekingstonhospital.org.uk where you can also read background information about the campaign.

The Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq War might, after all, get to the truth.

Seven years on and 3 inquiries later, at least Chilcot has the remit to ask the right questions.

Labour’s spin champion, Alistair Campbell, bludgeoned his way through his interview last week, but he’s in serious trouble over the dodgy dossier.

“When our troops are in Afghanistan to fight the terrorist threat, it is a betrayal of their sacrifice to slash the diplomatic budget crucial to crushing the very source of that threat," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary, Edward Davey.

Local Liberal Democrat MP, Edward Davey is outraged that Labour has failed 1,830 local pensioners who are missing out on Cold Weather Payments due to making a complicated tax system. Edward Davey MP is hoping local pensioners who believe they could qualify for Cold Weather Payments to contact him.

Chessington and Hook pupils attending Hinchley Wood School should get a new school bus service from mid-February. Even if it’s a smaller scale success, I think it’s worth a cheer.

Top bankers’ bonuses should be cut or taxed.

Huge City bonuses are wrong after the taxpayer has kept London’s financial system afloat - and seen public debt soar as a result. All political parties now accept this – though there’s a debate over how to make the wealthiest pay their fair share.

The tougher question is how to cut huge public borrowing.

Kingston Hospital’s new rating as London’s top District General Hospital has been described as “well deserved” by Kingston and Surbiton’s Liberal Democrat MP, Edward Davey.

The rating comes in the newly-released Dr Foster’s 2009 Hospital Guide.

“It took 9 months from denial to £8.2 million”

The campaign to expand Kingston’s primary schools had a huge boost this week when Kingston won a better-than-expected capital funding allocation of £8.2 million. Kingston and Surbiton’s Liberal Democrat MP, Edward Davey, has led this London-wide campaign for over a year and reacted with delight.

Over ten years ago, my grandmother bought a leasehold flat in a block built for retired people. She was very happy there, as she had less to worry about, help on hand and actually felt far more independent than before. My brother and I looked after her financial affairs and there was never any real problems with either of the firms who managed the block whilst she was a resident.

Cheaper local rail fares and the re-zoning of Kingston and Surbiton stations from zone 6 to zone 5 are longstanding campaigns of mine.

Why? Because in January 2007, some local tickets went up by over 35% when they brought in “zonal fares” – with a fear of worse to come for season tickets.

So what’s been happening on these commuter campaigns?

Last Sunday, Surbiton entered the record books – hosting the first ever suburban skiing competition.

This was skiing with a difference. In place of boring old traditional skis, the inventors of this new discipline patented modern, hi-tech skis – blocks of ice, designed to be strapped to contestants’ feet.

To raise lots of money for charity and lots of merriment for all, contestants raced down part of St Mark’s Hill on these ice blocks. And for three hours, the contest was side-splittingly funny.

The local genius behind this – Robin Hutchinson – kept 400 spectators amused, as world records for suburban skiing tumbled, along with some of the 42 participants.

There was consternation when late participants entered from Holland and Columbia. Perhaps this latest British sport invention - at which we were already proving world champions - would fall to international competition. But plucky Surbiton skiers fought off all-comers.

Like most MPs, I have received a letter from Sir Thomas Legg about expenses. It says:

"In your case, having examined the records in the light of my interpretation of the rules and standards in force at the time, I have not identified any payments made to you under the ACA (Additional Costs Allowance) during the review period which I consider call for any repayment or further supporting evidence."