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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A Weston business owner is ‘proud’ after being named among Britain’s best small shops. Outdoors & Active, in Meadow Street, has made the top 25 businesses in the Independent Retailers Consortium’s Best Small Shops competition. The shop is owned by Paul Batts – who is also chairman of Weston Business…
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John Penrose, MP for Weston-Super-Mare has today visited local business Bradfords Building Supplies for a tour of their site and to meet staff. Bradfords Building Supplies are a historic success story, as the oldest known merchant at 248 years old, founded in 1770. In what began as a quarrying business,…
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