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A new £25million school and a long-awaited Banwell bypass top an £80million council wish list, as Weston prepares for major growth in the coming years. North Somerset Council is bidding to the Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) for tens of millions of pounds to bolster infrastructure ahead an anticipated boom…
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Liz Truss shared the article [by John Penrose MP] calling for the government to be forced to keep to its “day-to-day budget” balanced. A senior minister has endorsed a proposal to let members of the public sue the government for spending too much. Liz Truss, chief secretary to the Treasury,…
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Economists never agree on anything, right? Sometimes not even with themselves: President Truman famously asked for a one-armed economist because he got so fed up with them saying ‘on one hand this, but on the other hand that’. But hang on. Pretty much all of them agree that Britain’s economy…
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Robert Opie and John Penrose MP have opened the Grand Pier’s latest attraction: The Museum Of Memories. This new area in the Pier will allow visitors to take a trip down memory lane. It features thousands of items bound to transport visitors back to their childhood on a trail of discovery,…
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I was away on holiday when the Pier caught alight in 2008. Suddenly my phone went mad, with calls from everyone from my Mum to David Cameron’s office. I spoke to Kerry Michael, who was on his way home from Portugal, and agreed to meet him at the site the next day.…
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Weston’s MP John Penrose is demanding answers after recent figures showing local train services getting worse. John Penrose said:…Read More
Below is a copy of the letter John Penrose MP sent to the Managing Director of Great Western…Read More
Opposing forces put aside their differences to protect people from greedy corporations. No, not the plot for the…Read More
John joined hundreds of local people who flocked to Blackford to attend the village’s harvest home on Saturday…Read More
Weston-super-Mare’s MP John Penrose will officially open the latest attraction at the resort’s Grand Pier, the Museum of…Read More
A major shake-up in how North Somerset is governed could be on the cards yet again, as authority…Read More