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When I grew up in London....many years ago now, parking charges and parking zones were gradually introduced and to be honest they were welcomed with open arms. My family never had a car so it made no difference to us but to our neighbours being able just to park in the road made such a difference when carrying heavy shopping, managing children or in terms of saving time having to drive round local roads just to find a space.

I won't bore you with my story of coming from a working class background where both my parents were Irish immigrants who moved to this country for a better life for their family as it is almost a cliche now with people often competing for the best sob story of who had the hardest upbringing. That said my family worked hard, paid their taxes and became active members of their community.

The price that farmers get for their milk was the hot topic on the Farming Today programme this morning, with the interesting fact that the UK actually does not produce enough milk to meet its own domestic demands and as a result we import a huge proportion of our milk.

Depending on which constituency you are campaigning in or even which part of a constituency, Europe is either a huge issue or one that hardly registers interest. That said for most of us we have never had a say about our relationship with Europe and those that did often feel they were sold something very different to what exits now.

It was great to welcome Daniel Poulter MP, Minister for Health, to the recovery project run by BHT where the abstinence based 12 step programme is the basis of helping clients recover from drink and drug addiction.