Weston Mercury: John backs bid for £15million to transform flagship sites in Weston

Weston’s Tropicana could be transformed into an 8,000-seat arena, following a £15million bid for levelling up funding.  North Somerset Council has applied for cash from the Government’s £4.8billion Levelling Up Fund to transform flagship sites on Weston-super-Mare seafront and high street.  The authority wants to turn the Tropicana into an arena for big events in Weston, with space for…

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CAPX: Is the traditional Tory belief in free enterprise leaving the station?

This article was originally published on CAPX Online. The new Plan for Rail starts really well, by invoking the buccaneering, entrepreneurial early days of Britain’s railways when the ‘iron web’, invented in this country in 1825, spread across the earth, transforming everything and everywhere it touched. Huge amounts of private…

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Weston Mercury: Whatever your politics may be, boundary changes are good news for democracy

Political reactions to the suggested new Parliamentary Boundaries are usually guaranteed to turn anyone into a cynic. Broadly, people who think it might help them win the next election are in favour, while anyone who thinks it hurts their chances ritually denounces the entire exercise as unfair and wrong.  What’s…

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