Congratulations to long-time Holt campaigner Maggie Prior who was elected with the highest number of votes to the Town Council last night in a by-election. Maggie has worked tirelessly to help me on the Church Street toilets as well as campaigning for better treatment for elderly people and more affordable housing for local people.

Her election was a blow for the Lib Dems who want to see the Church Street toilets sold and is great news for everyone in Holt as I know that she will be a big voice for the town.

The Sheringham toilet campaign has got off to a great start. Since the campaign launch on Saturday, we are now delivering surveys to every house in the town and the petition is appearing in local shops and other places.

To make sure that everyone can keep up-to-date with the campaign, I have also launched a campaign blog, which you can get to by clicking campaigns on the left-hand menu or by clicking here. Not only will the blog keep you up-to-date, but you can also leave comments and air your views on this important issue.

The nice weather finally happened over the weekend for once, which made a very busy weekend much more enjoyable.

Friday evening I went with the family and the in-laws to the Worstead festival, where Lisa took part in the five mile run. She has taken up running over the last couple of months and is determined to take part in the London Marathon next year. She did not finish as quickly as she had wanted to, but given that this was her first race and it was also very hot and humid, she did very well. Alex and I are very proud of her.

Saturday started with a team of us out knocking on doors in Hickling finding out what is on people's minds. As ever, the flooding proposals were a big issue, as was the Post Office closure and the loss of local shops.

Then it was over to Sheringham to speak to local people and to launch the campaign to save Sheringham's toilets. You can read more about the campaign here. The turnout was great and showed the level of feeling over this issue.

Sunday was more relaxed. I took Alex off to Wroxham Barns in the morning where, much to Alex's delight, we bottle fed a calf. After a quick train ride at the fairground there, it was back home to tackle the weeds at the end of my garden before heading into the office to check the postbag and answer some letters.

A good weekend made even better by the weather. My only concern as I look out at a very misty morning in North Walsham is whether that really was summer in just three days. Hopefully the sun will come back before next year...

Anyone who watched Question Time last night will have seen the prominent member of the Cabinet, Hazel Blears, describe the economy that Labour inherited from the Conservatives in 1997 as being one that was "in shreds" with unemployment standing at 3,000,000.

The excellent Fact Checker service from Channel 4 smelled a rat and got straight onto checking out the validity of Ms Blears' claims.

Their conclusion? Well they never actually call anyone a liar but they do point out that unemployment was at 1.6m and falling and that on every other indicator the economy was in good shape and was well on the road to recovery after the recession of the early 1990s.

So there we have it, perhaps another example of a senior Labour politician "mis-speaking"!

Check out C4's full assessment here.

So far Gordon Brown and his Government do not appear to be grasping the serious implications that the increasing cost of fuel is having on people all over the country, especially in rural areas where people are suffering a double whammy from petrol and heating oil inflation. And this failure to grasp the severity for us has its own serious implications for Gordon Brown.

So far the Government is not even prepared to scrap the proposal to increase fuel duty by 2p a litre later this year, despite the growing feeling that they will have no choice but to do so in the end. As George Osborne put it today, they are going to have to perform a u-turn in the end so why not get on with it?

Yesterday Gordon Brown went to Scotland to ask North Sea Oil producers what they could do to help and he was pleased to announce that a few thousand extra barrells of oil will be extracted from the North Sea Fields. But we are talking tens of thousands of additional barrells against a daily global oil consumption of more than 80 million barrels. The reality is that this move will make an inperceptable difference to the price we pay at petrol pumps. In any event, over 70% of the cost of petrol and diesel at the pump is tax so it is a little rich for Brown to be suggesting that the industry must bring the price down. The recent price rises have caused a windfall of tax revenues for the Government that they had not expected and Brown would do well to think about giving some of this back.

At the same time, Gordon Brown seemed to suggest that his other solution to the rise in gas and oil prices was to build even more nuclear power stations. Now I am not against the building of more nuclear power stations; whilst they are not a perfect answer to the global energy crisis, they are the only realistic option that we have at the moment to make a serious reduction in our carbon emissions from power generation. My point is simply that I am not sure how building nuclear plower stations, even if that would not take years if not decades, in any way reduces the price I am paying for diesel. Oil is globally traded and we have relatively few oil fired power stations so that a reduction in demand for oil from our power generators is unlilkely to have even as much of an effect on pump prices as producing a few thousand more barells of the stuff would.

If Gordon Brown really wants to help those who rely on their cars, those who have no choice but to heat their home by oil and those businesses whose distribution costs are spiralling out of control, he ought to stop tweaking the edges and tackle the one thing that would really make a difference, fuel duty.

When Hillary Clinton was exposed in the media as having, in many people's eyes, lied when she described her arrival in Kosovo in the 1990s as having been without ceremony and under fire despite the film footage showing her clearly strolling down from the plane to be presented with a bouquet of flowers by a young girl on the tarmac, she said she had "mis-spoken". As far as I can see, this seems to mean either lying or that she is no longer aware of reality.

Today, Gordon Brown appears to have suffered his own case of mis-speaking over what the leader of the Scottish Labour Party has said about a referendum on Scottish independence.

Wendy Alexander said over the weekend that she does not fear a referendum on independence and that she may well call the SNP's bluff by bringing forward a bill within the next twelve months. Check out the Scotsman for the details.

During Prime Minister's Questions in Parliament today, David Cameron asked Gordon Brown whether he agreed with Alexander's view that a referendum on independence should be held now, to which the PM replied, "That is not what she said...."

Back in October last year Brown lost this country's respect when he bottled the decision to call a General Election and then tried to pretend that he had not be thinking about it in the run up to the Conservative Party Conference. Now he appears to be testing the intelligence of the British people again. When will he realise that we are not stupid and we are capable of finding out for herself what she said?

Just because Brown tells us something does not make it true - it is time for more honesty from our Prime Minister.