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New Weston-super-Mare pier 'will be world's best'

New Weston-super-Mare pier 'will be world's best'

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The new pavilion at Weston-super-Mare's Grand Pier is starting to take shape.

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Weston junkie who robbed OAP, 79, jailed for five years

Weston junkie who robbed OAP, 79, jailed for five years

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

A junkie mother-of-four who robbed a 79-year-old woman in her own home leaving her battered and bruised has been jailed for five years.

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Weston Playhouse panto on the way to smashing box office records

Weston Playhouse panto on the way to smashing box office records

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Box office records for this year's pantomime at Weston-super-Mare's Playhouse could be smashed with tickets sales already up on last year.

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Somerset Premier Cup test for Weston

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Yatton win battle at the bottom against St Mary's Old Boys

Yatton RFC

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Yatton had to dig deep for a 20-5 home win over St Mary's Old Boys that could well prove to be crucial in the battle to avoid relegation from South...

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Weston-super-Mare's Kewstoke Toll Road improvements

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Improvements to make Weston-super-Mare's Kewstoke Toll Road safer are to go ahead.

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Weston-super-Mare could be twinned with Disney World

Weston-super-Mare could be twinned with Disney World

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Weston-super-Mare could be twinned with Walt Disney World in Florida, thanks to a resident.

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Just the ticket as Bristol bus drivers target Children in Need

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Bus drivers in Bristol are 'doing something different' to raise money for Children in Need this year by holding a charity extravaganza in central...

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Weston woman a heroin addict since age of nine

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

A mum who has taken drugs since the age of nine has been told to stop within three months or go to prison.

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Thousands turn out for Remembrance Sunday services

Thousands turn out for Remembrance Sunday services

Monday, November 09, 2009

They came in their thousands across greater Bristol to remembers those who died to preserve our freedom. And the rain fell on Remembrance Sunday...

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Weston-super-Mare

Weston comes from the Anglo-Saxon for the west tun or settlement. Weston's oldest structure is Worlebury camp, on Worlebury Hill, dating from the Iron Age.
Early in the 19th century, Weston-super-Mare was a small windswept village of about 30 houses behind the sand dunes which had been created as an early sea wall after the Bristol Channel floods of 1607.
Weston owes its growth and prosperity to the Victorian boom in seaside holidays. The first hotel was built in 1808 which is now the Royal Hotel.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his family lived in Weston for a number of months whilst he was supervising the construction of the Bristol and Exeter Railway.
The Grand Pier was opened in 1904 after local traders were unhappy that visitors were not coming as far as the centre of Weston-super-Mare. On July 28, 2008, the pavilion at the end of the Grand Pier was completely destroyed by a fire.
Population   71,800
OS grid ref   ST324615
Parish   Weston-super-Mare
District   North Somerset
Postcode   BS22-BS24
Dialing code   01934
Police   Avon and Somerset
Fire   Avon
Ambulance   Great Western
Euro Parlilament   South West England
UK Parliament   Weston-super-Mare



 

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