Musical styles ebb and flow: each generation will find a new sound, a beat, that defines it. The constant is that music is always there and has been ever since man crawled out of the primordial swamp.

Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP, Minister for School Standards, is pictured answering questions at Education Question Time in the House of Commons Chamber on Monday 17th December.

Nick Gibb dropped into the annual Christmas Fayre at the Willowhale Centre in Aldwick, Bognor Regis, organised by the Aldwick Preservation Society. The society owns and maintains the duck pond in Aldwick together with the surrounding area.

Nick Gibb MP joined Richard Russell, Chief Operating Officer of Arts Council England, and Jane Bryant and Richard Beales from Artswork to visit River Beach Primary School in Littlehampton to see how the school is working towards 'Artsmark', a national art award,  Artsmark is awarded by the Arts C

As part of Small Business Saturday, a grassroots campaign to promote local small businesses, Nick Gibb visited Dream Fitness in Bognor Regis.

Nick Gibb visited the Maypole Inn in Yapton, “the last pub in Yapton”. 

The pub was bought by Sam and Ian Smith about a year ago and is hugely popular with local and regular customers. 

The Government’s education reforms have been steeped in controversy.

Nick Gibb joined Kate Eccles, from Bognor Regis, in Westminster Hall at the House of Commons as part of the national event, ‘Ask Her to Stand’.

Nick Gibb visited Bognor Regis Nursery School and Children’s Centre. 

Head teacher Joe Knutson provided a tour of the facilities, including the opportunity to sit in on a class, where Mr Gibb listened to a round of story-telling composed and enacted by the children themselves. 

Nick Gibb paid one of his regular visits to the Laburnum Centre in Bognor Regis, at the invitation of Lynda Ryan, head of Community Support Services at Age UK West Sussex.