This week, local MP John Penrose attended a Parliamentary event addressed by Weston’s Chloe Gillum, a paediatric nurse living with several autoimmune conditions (type 1 diabetes, vitiligo and an underactive thyroid) to highlight the links between these conditions, and the need to treat them as a distinct medical research area…
‘Hello Mr Penrose I have the Prime Minister on the line. Will you hold?’ It’s at moments like these that mobile phones matter, because I could see it was genuinely Downing Street, rather than one of my mates winding me up. I hadn’t been expecting the call. But life is…
Weston’s MP John Penrose is hugely disappointed by news that bathing water quality on Weston beach has slipped after years of steady improvement. The latest figures show that water quality around Uphill has improved, after being rated as ‘poor’ last year, but Weston main beach has slipped back a notch…
Prime Minister Theresa May has handed Weston-super-Mare MP John Penrose a role in Government. Mr Penrose has been appointed minister of state for the Northern Ireland office. The 54-year-old has been Weston’s MP for the past 13 years, ever since the Conservatives regained the seat from the Liberal Democrats. He…