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 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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Residents and staff at a supported housing service for young people in Weston were visited by local MP John Penrose this Starts At Home Day Mr Penrose, the Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare, visited Sanctuary Supported Living’s Weston Foyer to learn more about the model of support it offers, as well as…
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In a letter dated August 1st, Government Planning Inspectors advised the local authorities for Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset to withdraw their Joint Spatial Plan and take it back to the drawing board. Welcoming the comments from the Planning Inspectors, John Penrose MP said:…
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