It was a chilly start to the day as I headed out into the park for my morning run. It at last feels like winter. My day was mainly administrative, dealing with several constituency matters, not least the funding issues surrounding Dorset County Council. I called the chief executive in Dorchester and chatted to Debbie Ward, who is coming up to London tomorrow to meet with officials. We have managed to grab her and Dorset MPs will meet her at 1500. A planned statutory instrument on EU legislation regarding our ports was dropped by the Government after I and several others threatened to swamp the meeting and protest against the EU's plans, which would have had a detrimental effect on the UK's ports. Then later in the afternoon history was made in the Commons when the House was suspended for five minutes while the Legislative Grand Committee sat for the first time. It meant that English MPs were able to vote on legislation only affecting England. Then after two legislative consent motions were dealt with the House returned for the Third Reading of the Housing and Planning Bill. The SNP of course were not happy with this and continued to moan and whinge, as they continually do. Finally, good news, the Criminal Cases Review Commission has decided to make the case of Alexander Blackman a priority one case rather than a priority two one. This is excellent news as it means they will scrutinise the new submission sooner than later and if they conclude there is a case to answer Mr Blackman's lawyer can apply for bail.