Pete Bradbury (centre) with Michael Gove (Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, left) and Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames during a recent visit to Bolnore Village.

Bolnore Primary School is coming! The Bolnore Schools Group has been successful in the WSCC competition to provide the new school. This is great news and a wonderful achievement for all concerned. More information here.

West Sussex Primary Care Trust West Sussex County Council has written to the Government offering to take over the West Sussex Primary Care Trust (PCT), which is the body which commissions health services for all of us in West Sussex - including hospital services. This move would simultaneously make the PCT more efficient and much more democratic and responsive to local needs and opinion.

West Sussex County Council was audited earlier this year by the Audit Commission and was rated as one of the top five performing county councils nationally.

A new bus service from Staplefield and Ansty to Burgess Hill has been launched by Cuckfield Rural Parish Council and Bluebird, running every Thursday morning.  A return trip will cost just £1 from Staplefield, Orchard Way Warninglid and Ansty and will stop at The Triangle, Tescos and Burgess Hill Town centre before returning two hours later. To book you just call 01444 471919 beforehand and the bus will then collect you from your own home

If you'd like to contact me on any matter, please send me an email or write to me at WSCC, County Hall, Chichester PO19 1RQ.