Complex sentence: In 2009, he caused a brief flurry of interest when it was revealed he was still using a ministerial car, some months after his election defeat, and more recently it was reported he has started writing a rugby column for a local magazine.
Split into simpler sentences: In 2009, he caused a brief flurry of interest when it was revealed he was still using a ministerial car, some months after his election defeat. Later it was reported he had started writing a rugby column for a local magazine.