“Effective progress” is being made on special educational needs in Oxfordshire, according to Government inspectors sent in after the county failed its inspection in 2023. Parent/carer organisation OxPCF says “This is the beginning of a journey – but many families may not yet feel the benefits.”

The huge pile of illegally dumped waste by the A34 in Kidlington is utterly shocking. Yesterday a Govt Minister agreed to meet me, I will ask her to step in to remove this terrifying environmental risk. I’ve also raised this as an urgent matter with the Chief Exec of the Environment Agency.

It was a pleasure to be put under pressure with some tough questioning from some of our younger Oxfordshire residents.

Useful day knocking on doors in Whitley Crescent today trying to understand nuisance parking and where the county council might be able to help.

That’s this weekends reading sorted out 😳

Oxfordshire County Council's cabinet member for transport, Andrew Gant, has fired back at Oxford East MP Anneliese Dodds over the city’s temporary congestion charge. In a five-page open letter, the LibDem councillor calls Labour’s opposition to it “grotesque, upsetting and bizarre”.

Conference done.

The back of the marching band and the front - day 1 of conference 🧡

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Some light Sunday night reading 🤓

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Oxfordshire County Council’s new cabinet has been announced. Sean Gaul takes on education, children’s services and SEND with Kate Gregory moving to public health. Andrew Gant stays at highways, Dan Levy at finance and Tim Bearder at adult social care. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/new-administ...

My huge congratulations to the team at Nash’s Bakery for their 95 year milestone. As discussed in the article by Mark Nash himself, the amount of businesses that survive from second to third generation is tiny, Mark clearly has a very talented team behind him. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2514011...

If like me you think that Bicester’s kids should have something much better to do than gathering in stairwells or at the top of escalators then vote Sean Gaul in May. If elected I will campaign for a modern day recreation strategy that will fund projects like the Courtyard Youth Arts Centre.

☀️ Oxfordshire Lib Dems out and about in the sunshine, talking to residents, getting a lovely reception - all ‘round the County 😍

Nicest day for canvassing all year 😎

Yikes what a day 😮‍💨 Thanks so much for the help Team Bicester Lib Dem’s 🧡 Excuses for the other side 🥴🤦😫 Solid delivery on our side 🚚 📦 📮👌 Roll on May 1st 💥🤞🔶

Cold start to todays campaigning 🥶 Lots to get done though 🏃‍➡️✉️ 🚪 🔶

I like rolling up my sleeves when it comes to getting things done. If elected in May it’ll be more of the same for my patch 🧽 🪣 ✨ www.bicesteradvertiser.net/news/1621216...

I'm looking forward to answering listeners questions on BBC Radio Oxford today from 12pm-1pm 📻 🎤

Fab way to wind up 2 days of intense campaigning in Bicester East with local MP Calum lending a hand 🤝 The reception on the doors has been nothing short of incredible, thank you so much to every resident that has taken time out to talk with me 🙏 76 days to go 🤞

Many thanks Team Bicester Lib Dem’s, cracking result today! My to-do list continues to grow which is 100% resident driven. If elected I will work on what I have been told to work on by my boss, the Bicester East resident. Back on the doors tomorrow - and with a special guest 🤩☺️🧡

Lib Dem’s saying hi 👋 in Bicester East 🔶 We’ve got a lot to talk about today 🧡

Right that’s a wrap for today, I’m knackered! 100’s of doors knocked on, 100’s of houses delivered to, loads of kind volunteers lending a helping hand, lots of shoe leather getting worn out, very proud of the campaign so far 💥🔶🧡☺️

Confirmed: Oxfordshire *will* be having local elections for the County Council in 2025....this is right and fair! We look forward to sweeping away the last vestiges of the failed Tory party Let's do this!

In 84 days time Bicester East residents will get to decide from either the other candidates who will spend their term throwing hand grenades or myself who will work brilliantly alongside our fab Lib Dem town councillors, Lib Dem district councillors and Lib Dem MP to collectively deliver for you.

Yesterdays Lib Dem’s saying 👋 in Bicester East 🔶

⏰ You have less than 36 hours to contribute to East West Rail’s public consultation. If you have 5 minutes, please take the time to make your voice heard. Visit eastwestrail.co.uk/consultation... if you have not already!

Talk is cheap. Action is £400,000 being spent on a destination play area for the kids of Bicester. Really proud of my Lib Dem colleagues on Bicester Town Council for choosing to prioritise Bicester’s kids in the budget they’ve just signed off 🙏🧡 Lib Dem’s delivering again 🔶

Meeting residents, introducing yourself as the candidate and discussing local concerns really gives a sense of purpose to a political campaign but meeting residents who remember you and things you worked on last time you were elected for the ward really is something else ☺️🙏🧡

In 98 days time residents of Bicester East will get to choose their new councillor for Oxfordshire County Council. I’m hoping I can convince enough voters to support me once again. Lib Dem’s saying 👋 in Bicester East 🔶

Translation - ‘Daddy to make me better get chewits and a gum ball machine’ Delivered 😂🧡😘

20mph speed limits are bringing down insurance costs - saving money and lives www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...

Very friendly reception on the doorstep today. Met a number of non-natural Lib Dem supporters who are now considering lending me their vote in May. My commitment is to leave Bicester East much more improved at the end of my term than at the start of my term, just like last time.

January’s knock on 💯 🚪’s challenge, let’s see how many I can get done in a day, let’s ggoooooooo 🏃‍➡️🏃‍➡️🏃‍➡️ Lib Dem’s saying 👋 in Bicester East 🔶

Fab effort for those that turned out in -4 temp today for the Kingsmere Action Day 🥶 Great candidate, great team - Lib Dem’s winning in Bicester West 🔶

Patients and staff are being hit with a one billion bombshell of hospital car parking charges. This is an unfair tax on the sick and hard-working NHS staff and it has to stop. It cannot be right that nurses have to pay through the nose to go to work or that patients are subjected to sky-high fees.

The very last thing I did as a Conservative Party Councillor was sign up to the Liberal Democrat Party. In the last 4 years I like what I’ve seen and heard, the Lib Dem’s are a party committed to action, so I’m looking to come back to Bicester East and pick up where I left off.

Raised living in Hendon Place, raised my own family in Manston Close, went to both Glory Farm Primary and Cooper Secondary School’s, my paper round on Basset Avenue, Mum worked in Hart Place, learned to drive on Boston Road. It’s easy for me to get passionate about Bicester East.

When I was the local councillor for Bicester East last time round, a mobility scooter using resident of Duxford Close asked for a dropped kerb his side of the road to mirror the other side creating easier access for the bus stop. Delivered.

When growing up in Bicester East, there was this phone box outside Lysander Close, only used as either a public toilet or for vandalism practice. When I was the local councillor, I had a motion passed at CDC demanding BT tidy it up or remove it. Today the area looks much nicer.

When I was a teenager, if you were in with the bad lot you would head for the Lear Building on Launton Road. It was unsupervised with easy access and plenty of opportunity to vandalise without fear of getting caught along with plenty of drug paraphernalia scattered all over.

I enjoyed taking the opportunity to show Calum Miller MP the huge amounts of investment that got made into all of the Bicester East Ward play areas last time I was the local councillor. I look forward to doing much more of the same for East Ward if I am re-elected next year.