PRESS RELEASE FROM ALISTAIR STRATHERN MP WEDNESDAY 11 th MARCH 2026 Alistair Strathern, the MP for Hitchin, has welcomed news that after pressing Anglian Water over the issues caused by long running sewage works in the town of Shefford a temporary pumping solution will now be installed. Residents in Shefford have had to endure months of noisy manual ‘tanking’ of sewage after a longstanding fault in the local sewage network broke at the end of last year. After Strathern’

PRESS RELEASE FROM ALISTAIR STRATHERN MP WEDNESDAY 11 th MARCH 2026 Alistair Strathern, MP for Hitchin, has welcomed a commitment from Network Rail to invest in installing a backup secondary signalling system across a key stretch of the local commuter line from Blackfriars to Farringdon. Since being elected Strathern has regularly engaged with Network Rail, train operators and the Department for Transport to challenge

PRESS RELEASE FROM ALISTAIR STRATHERN MP FRIDAY 6 th MARCH 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Alistair Strathern, the MP for Hitchin, has celebrated an agreement of a £2m investment to expand Langford Village Academy. The academy serves the village of Langford in Mr Strathern’s constituency, and had faced real pressures accommodating local children following the growth of the village. The new funding will enable the school to finally invest in appropriate facilities to accommodate