A busy day. First stop Swanage. The sun, having reappeared, I was encouraged to take the bike, which is always of benefit as it beats the traffic in most instances. I headed to Cauldron Barn Farm Park, which has been there in one guise or another for decades.

For far too long criminals have been having the last laugh.

Now, with a new Prime Minister and Home Secretary, the tide will turn.

Urgent, and much-needed, changes are under way.

Cancer has sadly claimed another victim, this time the brother-in-law of my caseworker, Hennie Weld. David Caradoc Weld-Davies was only 56 and leaves behind a wife and two young children.

TWO SERIOUS STRATEGIC MISTAKES

The geo-strategic blunders of the 'tanker crisis' show that the PM

must comprehensively and urgently change the security team

Professor Gwythian Prins

Rain, rain and more rain, and just when farmers are bringing in the harvest. So, I abandoned the idea of motorbiking to Weymouth and instead resorted to car. First stop was a wonderful service for those suffering from dementia.

I am writing to inform you that I have recently written to the Leaders of all local authorities in England and to the chairs of Local Resilience Forums about local Brexit
preparations.

Back from hols and into the in-tray. At the top - the Sandbanks ferry. Regrettably, the ferry has had to be towed to Southampton for major repairs to the drive-shaft.

Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, has twice written to Nick Purchase, Manager of the Bournemouth-Swanage Motor Road and Ferry Company, asking for an explanation of the breakdown which is now expected to close the ferry until October.

Up early and enjoyed a couple of hours in the office in the cool of the morning. Then on to my bike and down to Weymouth to the McDonalds franchise in Jubilee Retail Park.

NAVAL convoys imply a serious threat and the last time we saw them was in the late 1980s during the Iran/Iraq war.

Then the United States resorted to them to ensure vitally-needed oil for the West continued to flow.