Mercury Article: All you need is enough people to love and care about something, and everything else, from money to stonemasonry, will follow.

I watched the awful pictures of flames consuming Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, and was reminded of the – for Westonians, equally awful – day a bit more than a decade ago when our Grand Pier burnt down. Oh, I know the Pier wasn’t a globally-famous example of medieval architecture, like…

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John Penrose MP welcomes Weston’s new Institute of Technology ‘to rival the best in the world’

Local MP John Penrose has welcomed this week’s announcement of £14 million Government funding for a new ‘Institute of Technology’ centred in Weston, to deliver high level technical training in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects.   The Institute is the brainchild of Weston College, with help from partners…

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