THE Government should create a new honours order that is dedicated to entrepreneurs who start fast-growing businesses, a think tank has suggested. Under plans drawn up by the Entrepreneurs Network, more than 200 start-up founders each year would join a new “Elizabethan Order” and be handed medals featuring an owl…
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The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has introduced a remedies package aimed at improving competition in the insurance market, while ensuring that existing customers do not pay more than new ones. Under the new rules, insurers will be required to offer renewing customers a price that is no higher than they…
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We should roll out open banking to open everything, setting the new global standards for simple, safe data sharing in future and establishing a strong digital image of a new post-Brexit global Britain. When was the last time you switched to a different bank? This week? This decade? Ever? For…
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Weston’s MP has called for improved safety for blind and partially sighted people at Weston-super-Mare and Weston Milton train stations, after discussions with Guide Dogs UK. Weston and Milton stations, like a third of train stations in the UK, do not currently have tactile surfaces installed on the edge of their…
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John Penrose, Weston’s MP, has welcomed North Somerset Council’s letter confirming a u-turn to continue providing buses for Churchill school students until at least Easter 2022 as a victory for local people-power and for Councillor Ann Harley, who has been working with John closely to represent local concerns. John took…
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Weston’s MP John Penrose has welcomed a new grant of almost £120,000 for Weston High Street’s Heritage Action Zone from Historic England. The money will be put towards a unique three-year project designing and placing ‘21st Century super Shrines’, with the aim of creating ‘a sense of shared values and a new sense…
Read MoreJohn says that giving the Prime Minister’s Adviser on Ministerial Code (Lord Geidt) the power to do independent investigations… Read More
Some things come round so regularly they’re practically traditions. England batting collapses. Terrible weather on bank holidays. And… Read More
Article written by Russell Lynch and posted on The Daily Telegraph Website Scribbled on a whiteboard in Business… Read More
John welcomes the promised new anti-corruption sanctions as a vital step in the fight against dirty money, but… Read More