18th Jan: Norman welcomes the news that East Sussex will receive an extra £1,038,818 for social care which will mean that people can leave hospitals earlier and receive better care at home. More.
17th Jan: Norman welcomes the announcement of grants totalling £85000 to Barcombe Energy Group and OVESCO. The LEAF money was announced by the Lib Dem Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne MP, which is available to communities in England and Wales who are playing an active role in the development of a low carbon society, with money available to finance projects that increase understanding and uptake of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. More.
13th Jan: Norman welcomes the announcement that people living in cold homes in East Sussex will receive £254,000 of extra support as a result of the government's £20million Warm Housing, Healthy People Fund. More.
9th Jan: Norman warns there is a real prospect that both maternity and cardiology services could be lost from Eastbourne's District General Hospital. More.
9th Jan: Norman is today writing to Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman to urge greater government action to curb the excessive use of plastic bags by retailers and to suggest that she might convene a meeting of Chief Executives from the supermarkets to help achieve this. And he is also taking the matter up with the Chief Executive of WH Smith, which he has labelled as one of the worst offenders. More.
6th Jan: Norman will host the first SatNav Summit to tackle traffic that is misdirected as a result of out-of-date SatNavs, calling the Summit "a huge step in the right direction, as opposed to the direction that out-of-date SatNavs can send drivers". More.
4th Jan: Norman has written to the Chief Executive of the RBS Group, Stephen Hester, to urge for the decision to close the NatWest branch on Newhaven High Street to be reversed, and has also written to the Business Minister, Mark Prisk MP, to ask that he looks at this case. More.
15th Dec: Norman has welcomed the outcome of the discussions at the Durban Climate Change Conference, saying "what progress there was only happened as a result of unified EU action", and "continuing to work with our EU neighbours is key to tackling Climate Change". More.
14th Dec: BBC bosses should tackle waste, excessive layers of management and inflated salaries, instead of taking the axe to local radio. That is Norman's view, and he has now written accordingly to the BBC's Director General, Mark Thompson. More.
9th Dec: Norman announced today that bus services across England are set to receive £90 million to make them greener, more efficient and easier to use. The Government believes that the funding will deliver better services for passengers in a way that will cut carbon and deliver growth. More.
9th Dec: Every year Norman holds a regular Christmas Card Competition in which he encourages the Primary Schools in his constituency to get their pupils to design either the front cover of the card or write the poem for the inside. Each year has a different theme, and this year it was 'Christmas in the Future'. More.
2nd Dec: Norman comes out fighting over the tar sands issue. More.
1st Dec: Southern will be provided with 130 new carriages to tackle overcrowding after £80million of government support was announced in the Autumn Statement, which Norman has called a "good news Statement for transport", and something he had been pressing for. More.
28th Nov: Norman welcomes the Youth Contract, which starts next April, and will provide at least 410,000 new work places for 18 to 24 years over the next three years. More.
24th Nov: Norman responds to Lush on tar sands. More.
18th Nov: Norman has today presented Lewes's Google e-town award to the Lewes Chamber of Commerce. More.
11 Nov: Proposed changes to the feed-in-tariff to come into effect on the 12th of December have been questioned by the local MP, Norman Baker, who is calling for more flexibility to minimise the impact of the changes on community solar projects. More.
8 Nov: Norman criticises Ofcom plans to require local residents to dial 13 numbers to make a local call in the 01273 code area which includes Lewes and Newhaven. More.
8 Nov: Norman is calling for political parties in Sussex not to put forward political candidates to fill the new position of elected Police and Crime Commissioner when this is first voted upon next year. More.
7 Nov: Norman welcomes a new fund of over £2.5million for East Sussex County Council to help to provide more school places for local children. More.
3 Nov: Norman welcomes the prospect of new jobs, businesses and infrastructure in Newhaven if the proposed scheme by Arrowcroft and West Register/RBS for Newhaven's Railway Quay goes ahead. More.
1 Nov: "We need to be a nation that makes things, not a nation of pen pushing bankers." That is the view of local MP, Norman Baker, who recently went to view Rolls-Royce's state of the art turbine engine at Westminster. More.
31 Oct: Norman's Radio Show Derailed ... and Debussed! More.
28 Oct: An article written for the Sussex Express: In Victorian times, the British and the French sat down and drew lines on maps to carve up Africa.... More.
28 Oct: Norman has today revealed the top five local schools in Seaford which will be the biggest beneficiaries of the Pupil Premium, secured by the Lib Dems in government, and between them will receive nearly £120,000. More.
28 Oct: Norman has today revealed the top five local schools in Newhaven which will be the biggest beneficiaries of the Pupil Premium, secured by the Lib Dems in government, and between them will receive nearly £150,000. More.
28 Oct: Norman has today revealed the top five local schools in the Lewes area which will be the biggest beneficiaries of the Pupil Premium, secured by the Lib Dems in government, and between them will receive nearly £150,000. More.
10 Oct: Norman swapped Question Time for milk time to celebrate World School Milk Day on the 28th of September with the children of Seaford Primary School. More.
4 Oct: Norman has successfully warned off UK Power Networks (UKPNs) from scheduling a power cut at Broyle Place Farm, which was due to take place on Friday 7th October. More.
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