Out to Wool this morning to meet up with our excellent councillor, Laura Beddow. A most informative and useful morning, listening to constituents' concerns and following up on two inquiries. Drafting my weekly column and dealing with many constituency matters took up the latter part of the day. And voting in the two by-elections took place. Results know in the early hours tomorrow. Meanwhile, official figures showed that people spending less, doctors' strikes and a fall in school attendance dragged the UK into recession at the end of last year. Of serious concern, more than 4,000 antisemitic incidents were recorded in the UK by a Jewish charity in 2023, with the all-time high being put down to the “sheer volume” which took place following the Hamas attacks of 7 October. Israel's military claimed it had captured "dozens" of terror suspects during a raid on southern Gaza's main hospital, as staff and patients were forced to flee under gunfire. A trial date was set in Donald Trump's hush-money case, which centres on the claim he paid off two women - including an adult film star - after they said he had affairs with them.