Politicians have never had a great reputation. In most polls of occupations you’d like your children to enter, they rank somewhere between bankers, journalists and smallpox. And if you look at old-time newspaper caricatures, it’s been that way for centuries. But most MPs I meet, from every political party, do…
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Weston’s MP, John Penrose, has welcomed figures showing that Weston’s local schools will get significantly increased funding per pupil as he’s been demanding for years. Local schools will get an average 5.0% cash boost per pupil – one of the largest in the country – to an average of £4655…
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Weston MP John Penrose has welcomed recently-released Weston Hospital Board papers which show the newly-revised ‘Healthy Weston’ plans for the future of Weston hospital and local healthcare have been backed by local GPs, hospital doctors and the hospital Board. He has also welcomed the updated plans, which now include ideas proposed by the hospital consultants. The new plans will mean: · 24/7 emergency admissions to Weston hospital…
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Weston’s MP John Penrose is delighted by today’s news that Birnbeck Pier’s owners will be served with an official ‘Repairs Notice’, giving them two months to put the Pier right. John’s involvement with the decaying grade 2* listed building first began when he got Heritage Minister Ed Vaizey MP to…
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