Last week was a busy one for me.

On Monday night I attended the annual meeting of Hickling Parish Council where the biggest item on the agenda was, unsurprisingly, the proposal by Natural England to flood Hickling and five other villages. You can read more about the meeting here. I am delighted to say that the new group that is being set up to fight for the village has already swung into action and a petition has been launched on the Downing Street website. If you have not yet signed it, please do so here.

Then on Tuesday it was off to the annual meeting of the Runtons Parish Council and a packed meeting furious at the announcement that East Runton Post Office is amongst the nine to be closed in North Norfolk as part of Gordon Brown's latest wave of closures across the network. The strength of feeling at the meeting was understandably high and the frustration that the Government has stacked the "consultation" against local communities was palpable. If you have not yet signed my petition to save the Post Office, please do so here.

Then on Thursday I had a meeting with some of the Parish Councils for the areas affected by the future of RAF Coltishall. The topic of conversation was the future of the airbase in view of the plans for a prison and now an eco-town on the base.