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 …
Priti meets up with charity dedicated to reducing the damage caused by traumatic childhoods
Responding to a request from one of her constituents, Priti Patel, the Member of Parliament for Witham has held a meeting with Alex Williamson, Campaign Officer at the WAVE Trust, to find out about the Trust’s campaign to reduce trauma in childhood. The constituent had himself suffered from such experiences, …
Priti calls in to Farleigh Hospice Shop in Witham to help celebrate the Hospice’s 40th Anniversary
The Farleigh Hospice in Chelmsford is 40 years old and, during a busy day in her constituency, Priti Patel MP called into their fundraising shop in Newland Street, Witham to join in the celebrations. Priti met Shop Manager Danielle Gadd and her team and shared a special celebratory 40th anniversary …
Priti calls in to see Café Bijou heroes to hear about their Ukraine supply trips
The MP for Witham, Priti Patel has made a return visit to Café Bijou, in Market End, Coggeshall to hear about the hard work the Café’s owners, Lucie and Paul Long, have been doing to support the people of the Ukraine. Priti formally opened the couple’s new Café in July …
Priti calls in at the J’Adore Bridal Boutique in Coggeshall for a business update
On Wednesday 6th April 2022, Priti Patel, the MP for Witham, called in at the J’Adore Bridal Boutique, 8 Market End, Coggeshall, to meet Linda Thomson, who is the proprietor. The visit had been postponed several times by Covid restrictions and diary clashes but Priti wanted to catch up with …
New vegan and organic food store in Witham is opened by the local MP
Witham MP Priti Patel called into the new Vegan & Organic Food Store that has just opened in the Grove Shopping Centrex, Witham on Wednesday 6th April. Priti went to meet the proprietor Ila Achmed to hear all about her new venture and to perform a formal ribbon cutting opening …