🚗 Important Update 🚗 From 1st January 2025, Queen Mary's Hospital car parks will be operating a cashless system. You'll only be able to pay for your parking using debit/credit cards alongside phone apps.

This week I tabled an Early Day Motion congratulating Irish Community Services on their 40th anniversary. I had the pleasure of working with them for my Coffee & Advice Drop-Ins & saw for myself the difference they make to the lives of my constituents in #Bexleyheath & #Crayford. 1/2 🧵

An incredible honour to be mentioned and to get recognition in an Early Day Motion by Daniel Francis MP this week. Thank you 🙏 Irish in Britain Embassy of Ireland Ann Lucas

Thank you Daniel Francis MP for celebrating 40 years of Irish Community Services & championing their incredible work Irish Community Service are a lifeline to thousands across Bexley, Greenwich and beyond ☘️

One side of the potato-pits was white with frost – How wonderful that was, how wonderful! And when we put our ears to the paling-post The music that came out was magical. The light between the ricks of hay and straw Was a hole in Heaven’s gable. Patrick Kavanagh

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Heaney's poem 'Good-night' feels particularly relevant on these wintry nights. The poem is a celebration of the silent understanding between his parents as his father enters the comfort and warmth of the family home and his mother removes the only source of light for them both.

This St. Patrick’s Day, we pay tribute to Irish people making remarkable contributions around the world and showcasing the very best of what it means to be Irish. 🎵🔊 'A Rainy Night in Soho', performed by Cat Dowling Happy #StPatricksDay! Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh

Here’s my weekly update regarding my work on the #AssistedDyingBill Committee. This week over 70 amendments were debated, and the judicial stage of the Bill has been replaced by a panel. Watch the video below for my update. #Bexleyheath & #Crayford

The treatment of Glioblastoma brain tumours hasn’t progressed for over 20 years. Our medical institutions are far too happy to continue with the status quo. I hope the Rare Cancers Bill will be the first step towards bringing the change that’s needed.

📺A new four-part BBC 2 series looks at The Story of Hurling, from its roots through to its place in Irish society and culture today, all episodes online on iPlayer now. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…?

Please re-Tweet if you agree: A person living with #Alzheimers disease or another form of #dementia loses memories, not humanity. #HumanRights #quote

You only have to go back a couple of hundred years and parents - reasonably and realistically - expected half their children to die before reaching adulthood. You throw away the benefits of modern medicine - including vaccines - and you go back to that era. Children are

Please re-Tweet for every caregiver who has felt overwhelmed, inadequate and helpless: You don’t have to be perfect. Doing what you are able — the best that you are able, when you are able — is plenty. #Alzheimers #dementia #autism #mentalhealth #caregiving #quote

My understanding is that 16 is the statistically significant number for a Stage 1 trial. We have raised all the money for the trial including the drugs through donations, raffles, tombola’s, marathon running, cream tea making and holding a dinner. It’s not cheap!

For every caregiver who has felt overwhelmed, inadequate, and helpless: You don’t have to be perfect. Doing what you are able — the best that you are able, when you are able — is plenty. (image: Regina is writing LITTLE HELPER) #Alzheimers #dementia #mentalhealth #quote

As a young child I remember visiting a former Japanese PoW who was bedridden in Bexley Road, Northumberland Heath, with my grandmother who a volunteer with the Red Cross in our area. I will never forget. There was a key on a piece of string through the letter box to let us in.

👍🏻 National Education Union NASUWT #nht #send

Thanks to IKEA UK for confirming there is now a changing bed in their Changing Places UK toilet in its Oxford Street branch. This is a significant step finally providing a Changing Places toilet in Oxford Street given the gap between Trafalgar Square & Euston Road without one.

I was proud to vote last night for the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation: ✅Day One rights ✅Stronger sick pay ✅Ban on Fire & Rehire ✅Fair contracts Labour overturned Tory and Reform wrecking amendments & brought real change for workers one step closer.