Weston’s MP John Penrose has welcomed a significant half-a-million pound investment in North Somerset mental health services for children and young people. The money comes after John noticed an alarming increase in the number of parents contacting him about long delays in getting mental health support for their children. In…
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Weston’s first night assessment centre for homeless people has officially opened in the town centre. People gathered to celebrate a landmark occasion after a several years of heavy campaigning to create a centre for the town’s rough sleepers. Weston MP John Penrose cut the ribbon to open the centre, which…
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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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