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20 Most Recent Press Articles
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Written by Mike Bell and published in Midweek Mercury on Wed 21st Oct 2009
AFTER three months off it was down to earth with a bump for MPs last week as they realised we haven't forgotten their greed and betrayal of trust as the expenses scandal shame resurfaced.
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Written by Mike Bell and published in Mercury Midweek on Wed 23rd Sep 2009
IS WESTON losing the drugs fight? Week after week we read in the newspaper about crimes being committed related to drugs. Last week a man was found dead in a property described as a past 'junkie house'.
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Written by Mike Bell and published in Weston Mercury Midweek on Wed 19th Aug 2009
THE last few weeks have been something of a blur for my family as at the beginning of August my wife gave birth to our baby son Jake.
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Written by Mike Bell and published in Weston Mercury Midweek on Wed 15th Jul 2009
OUR town has much to offer businesses and real potential to thrive. I want to help that happen. But did you know unemployment has doubled in Weston in the last six months?
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Written by Mike Bell and published in Weston Mercury Midweek on Wed 17th Jun 2009
WELCOME to the second of my monthly columns.
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Written by Mike Bell and published in Weston Mercury Midweek on Wed 27th May 2009
EVER thought MPs are more about party politics than the people who voted for them? Wish someone would just put Weston first? Me too.
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Published on Fri 7th Nov 2008
Parliament returned to Brussels after a week's break intrigued to know whether the USA would dare to vote into office its first ever black President. It did, and immediately drew attention to the embarrassing absence of a single black or coloured face among 27 EU Commissioners, or indeed among the heads of state of government of the 27 EU member states. Given the diversity of our people, there is something wrong with our politics.
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Published in Weston & Worle News on Thu 27th Apr 2006
Councillors have called for North Somerset to officially oppose the introduction of ID cards.
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Published in Weston & Worle News on Thu 20th Apr 2006
Staff at Weston town hall will no longer benefit from cheap lunches subsidised by the taxpayer after councillors agreed to scrap their canteen.
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Published in Weston & Somerset Mercury on Thu 6th Apr 2006
OVER a third of all lamp posts surveyed in North Somerset are in danger of falling over - and there is not enough cash to fix them.
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Published in Weston & Worle News on Thu 30th Mar 2006
Claims that the £280,000 artwork planned for Big Lamp Corner could lead to a bird flu outbreak in Weston have been rubbished by North Somerset Council.
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Published in Weston & Worle News on Thu 23rd Mar 2006
Council tax protesters are urged to make a stand on Friday, March 31, dubbed Prescott Day, by bombarding the office of the Deputy Prime Minister with their bills.
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Published in Weston & Worle News on Thu 9th Mar 2006
North Somerset Council spends around £200,000 a year on postage, it has been revealed. A report to the council's executive on Tuesday looked at whether the authority provides good value for money.
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Published in Weston & Worle News on Thu 9th Mar 2006
A councillor has blamed lazy people who dump their takeaway rubbish in the street for adding to the district's litter problem. The comments came at a meeting of North Somerset Council executive on Tuesday, when members approved new contracts for street, toilet and beach cleaning.
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Published in Weston & Worle News on Thu 9th Mar 2006
North Somerset Council has hit back at accusations it fritters away council taxpayers' money on luxury items, while calls have been made for a full investigation into the claims. Last week Weston & Worle News printed claims from a council employee, who said managers at the authority 'spend money like water' at the end of the financial year, for fear of losing out in the following year's budget.
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Published in Weston & Worle news on Thu 23rd Feb 2006
North Somerset Council has settled on a final draft budget proposal that will see a 4.9 per cent increase in council tax in April, and a number of services threatened by cuts have been saved. Councillors agreed the figures at a meeting of the executive last Tuesday, and full council will make the final decision next Tuesday.
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Published in Weston & Worle News on Thu 23rd Feb 2006
North Somerset Council will need to make £5.3 million worth of savings by this time next year if it is to keep the 2007 council tax increase below five per cent. Council officials are already looking at the council tax level next year, even though this year's bill has yet to be finalised.
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Published in Weston & Worle News on Thu 23rd Feb 2006
A councillor has warned of the huge cost of creating a South West regional police force. North Somerset Council executive member for finance Mike Bell said: "The Home Office has said that there will be no new money available to assist in setting up the proposed new police force structures.
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Published in Star Radio on Wed 22nd Feb 2006
The Home Office's proposals for a regional police force could cost the tax payer £100million according to one North Somerset councillor.
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Published in Weston & Worle News on Thu 9th Feb 2006
A packed meeting of pensioners gave North Somerset councillor Mike Bell a two-hour grilling on why the new Government grant is not enough to keep council tax bills down. At the Senior Citizens' Forum meeting last Wednesday they asked the council's executive member for finance why the grant was paid at only £200 per head of population, instead of the average £400 per head for other councils and quizzed him on whether the council had considered fairer methods of taxation.
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