The Blue Pantry in Wellington, an eco-friendly grocery shop that promotes a waste-free approach was the ideal place for the regional launch of Government’s Environmental Improvement plan.
The announcement by AstraZeneca that £320 million of investment has been lost by the UK to the Republic of Ireland because of high tax rates is a reminder of Edmund Burke's words 'To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men'.
The great Tory philosopher's words re
There was a good reaction in Clevedon as we build up to our North Somerset local elections on May 4th. Maybe anger over the seafront has something to do with it!
Wincanton and Bruton
TOM POWER
Being elected to Somerset Council has been an enjoyable rollercoaster especially due to what’s been happening in Westminster, but we have a good team of conservative councillors down here at the new Somerset Council who are getting on with the job.
Last week, Mims Davies, Minister for Social Mobility, Youth and Progression, wrote to all Members of Parliament (MPs) about the Child Maintenance Service (CMS), particularly in relation to domestic abuse.
In 2021, the Government commissioned an independent review of the CMS’s operational procedure
Bath’s local Conservatives have accused the LibDem Council administration in BANES of failing to value and understand the city’s Fashion Museum collection of historic costume and contemporary fashion.
I’m not surprised that the lacklustre bid submitted has failed to find favour.
I was warned by the minister before bids closed that the proposed series of minor public realm improvements in Highbridge, Cheddar and Shepton Mallet would compete poorly with the more strategic - and ambitious - proposa
Recently, Sara Lee, Director of the Countryside Alliance Awards, wrote to let me know that two businesses in North East Somerset are in contention to win a Southwest Regional title in the Rural Enterprise and Butcher categories respectively.
Ms Lee told me that West of England Falconry in Newton S
North Somerset Conservative Candidates supporting the “Save Our Seafront” campaign in Clevedon. This is truly a debacle which has been rightly condemned by the RAC and made NSC a laughing stock.
