Last week, the Faversham and Mid Kent constituency selected Helen Whately to replace Sir Hugh Robertson as The Conservative candidate at the forthcoming General Election. Sir Hugh is standing down after 14 years as the area’s Member of Parliament.

Hugh Robertson raises his concerns about reports of Islamic forces massing on the Lebanese border and asks the Government for an update on the situation.

New Year is traditionally a time of hope and renewal and a time to make resolutions for the year ahead. I have just finished the last constituency mailbag of 2014 and it contains the usual mix of serious casework, general moans and, pleasingly, a couple of people who have written in to say thank you for something that we have managed to fix for them.

Hugh Robertson attended the unveiling of Sir Philip Neame’s commemoration stone in Faversham exactly 100 years since he won his Victoria Cross on the Western Front.