All of us will look back on 2020 and be glad to welcome 2021 as we open a new chapter.
Far too many people have lost loved ones because of COVID-19 and many, during the times of lockdowns, have experienced situations they have never before encountered.
Epping Forest MP Dame Eleanor Laing said: "I know this is the opposite of what we wanted, which was a move back into Tier 2, but the fact is that the Epping Forest district has some of the worst COVID-19 figures in the whole of the country.
Nine organisations in the Epping Forest constituency have received funding totalling more than £182,000 from the Government's Coronavirus Community Support Fund.
Across the country some 13,000 charities have benefited.
Epping Forest MP Dame Eleanor Laing paid her respects on Remembrance Sunday when she laid a wreath at the war memorials in Theydon Bois, Loughton, Waltham Abbey and Epping.
Families that have been hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and need extra support this winter with food and bills will benefit from a new £170m scheme unveiled by the Government.
Students at Debden Park High School were able to ask questions of Dame Eleanor Laing MP when the Epping Forest Member of Parliament joined them for a digital surgery through The Politics Project.
Epping Forest MP Dame Eleanor Laing and other Essex MPs have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak asking them to reconsider the need for financial support for local businesses that will be adversely affected by the move into the High risk COVID-19 Tier 2.
