1. With Anthony Mee, opera singer resident in Cornwall, celebrating my successful intervention with the Austrian tax authorities to save him as a self-employed person from being double taxed. Read on

2. With Phil Barlow of GE Aviation, Cheltenham, examining a fuel measurement probe.

3. Chairman and keynote speaker at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ Energy Seminar in Dorset May 2007. With from left to right Nick Harrington, Karl Craddick, Dr David Norfolk and Mr Mark Letcher

4. At the International Trade Forum Launch in Plymouth with, from the left, Damien Campbell, Spirent Communcations Ltd, GC; Peter Mathews, CMG - MD Black Country Metals Ltd & Chairman, UK International Trade Forum; Alan Corson, Regional Manager - Davis Turner Air Cargo Ltd & Chairman, Plymouth International Trade Forum Steering Group; Karen Phipps, International Trade Manager - Plymouth Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

5. At Plymouth Marine Laboratory with Professor Nick Owens (Chief Executive and Director of Science) and Dr Carole Llewellyn viewing the propagation of algae which absorb CO2 from the atmosphere into the sea

6. With Sixth Form students, County Councillor Brenda Taylor and Mike Mitchell, Head of Social Science at Exmouth Community College, during a political questions and answers session.

7. During a visit to the Calvert Trust, Exmoor with Chairman of the Trustees, Sir Michael Knight.

8. Handing over a sponsorship cheque to Ruth Bateman for her single-handed bike ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

9. Taking part the Great South West Walk from Abbotsbury to Weymouth in support of Macmillan Cancer Support, Wooden Spoon and RNLI