In a week where we have seen the worst of urban bias from a Suffolk Labour MP and minister I give a more balanced view of national and local urban bias in politics in this excerpt from my book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond.

With news of the anticipated axing of Sean Dunderdale's Farm Watch program from BBC Radio Lincolnshire I post an excerpt from my book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond. Is this Urban Bias or Regional neglect? Urban bias in the media – the Fenland area has been protected by a strong history of free, unfettered and at times fearless local press. Indeed the Lincolnshire Free Press was originally founded as The Lincolnshire Boston and Spalding Free Press to counte

July 1915 saw a tornado hit Saracens Head near Holbeach