The reports from Douma on 14 April 2018 point to an attack having been carried out with chemical weapons, in full contravention of international humanitarian law. The evidence of the deaths and suffering inflicted by the attack, including on young children, is horrific and those responsible must be held to account. Both the Assad regime and Daesh have been held responsible for the use of chemicals in the past since the start of the Syrian conflict. A 2013 UN investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Syria concluded that chemical weapons were used. The use of chemical weapons is a war crime which I utterly condemn.

Wednesday 11 April 2018 was the birthday of Dr James Parkinson, who is most famous for publishing ‘An Essay on the Shaking Palsy’ in 1817, and establishing Parkinson’s as an internationally recognised medical condition.

At St Martin’s Church Walsall on Saturday 7 April 2018, I heard Janine Webber’s testimony of her experience during the Holocaust.

Outside of St Paul’s at the Crossing on Saturday 7 April 2018, a Peace and Unity rally was held to counter a group that were marching in Walsall.

It is half time for the Article 50 process and regions are still anxious about what Brexit will mean for the. There has been no decision on the Northern Ireland border, the Government’s own analysis shows that a hard Brexit could cost Scotland’s economy £12.7 billion by 2030, and Wales is looking at other methods of economic development and new energy, one of which is the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon.