John has visited the Tesco store right opposite his office to support the UK’s biggest food collection for people in need this Christmas. This weekend more than 2,600 Tesco stores across the UK took part in the annual Tesco Food Collection, which encouraged shoppers to donate long-life foods to help…
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We all remember where we were when the Grand Pier burned down, right? I can still recall being on holiday, and feeling completely powerless as the flames melted the steel frame into a twisted bowl of metal spaghetti. So there was an awful sense of ‘oh heck not another one’…
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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…
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‘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…
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