Weston Mercury Article: Time to make tax rates fairer

A few months ago, most of us would have guessed Zoom was a high-caffeine macchiato coffee. Since lockdown, we’ve all become experts in using it for pub quizzes, virtual drinks with friends and work meetings too. But Parliament? The stuffy, tradition-bound place with processions and men wearing swords and tights?…

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Weston Mercury: MP backs villagers campaigning against housing development

Weston’s MP has given his backing to villagers campaigning against a planning application. John Penrose has written to Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, against Gladman’s plans to build 50 homes in Congresbury’s Wrington Lane. A spokesman for Congresbury Residents Action Group said: “Mr Penrose…

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