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	<title>Your Weston Central Team</title>
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	<description>Cllr Mike Bell, Cllr Clare Kingsbury-Bell and Cllr Holly Young</description>
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		<title>Town budget &#8211; no tax rise for residents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THERE will be no council tax increase from Weston Town Council residents over the next financial year after it passed its new budget. The authority’s budget will remain at £1,176,234, and although that figure may rise as the council takes on the running of new services, hard-up ratepayers will not see council tax bills increase. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westoncentral.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/01/19/town-budget-no-tax-rise-for-residents/</link>
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		<title>Car park increase &#8211; a ‘disgrace’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WESTON Town Council has united against proposals to raise car parking charges in the town. At the authority’s meeting on Monday, councillors labelled North Somerset Council’s plans a ‘disgrace’. It was also agreed that should the charges go up as planned, the town council may launch a judicial review on the basis they are discriminatory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westoncentral.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/01/19/car-park-increase-a-%e2%80%98disgrace%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Police budget consultation – 6 days to have your say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is less than a week left to have your say on the policing part of the council tax in an online survey by Avon and Somerset Police Authority. You can have your say online or you can receive a copy of the survey in the post please call 01275 816377. They are asking you questions on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westoncentral.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/01/09/police-budget-consultation-%e2%80%93-6-days-to-have-your-say/</link>
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		<title>Trop demolition agreed &#8211; but group still wants to save it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 11 years of dashed hopes, a decision to demolish the Tropicana was approved by executive councillors on Tuesday – to the disappointment of a group of businessmen who harboured hopes of developing the site. Last month a North Somerset Council working party charged with finding an answer ruled there were no viable projects left [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westoncentral.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/12/22/trop-demolition-agreed-but-group-still-wants-to-save-it/</link>
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		<title>Town is a car park cash cow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CAR parking charges across Weston could be raised as part of a fundraising drive by the council. The increase in charges, due to be discussed and possibly passed by North Somerset Council’s executive on Tuesday, would see some charges rise by as much as 25 per cent. The proposals have led to complaints that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westoncentral.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/12/08/town-is-a-car-park-cash-cow/</link>
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		<title>Lapdancing clubs get new licences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Licences have been granted to two lapdancing clubs in the centre of Weston, despite concerns being raised over their locations. Both Shadow Lounge in Regent Street and T’s in Oxford Street went before a licensing committee at North Somerset Council last week. Objections had been raised against granting permission to T’s on the grounds that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westoncentral.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/12/08/lapdancing-clubs-get-new-licences/</link>
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		<title>Tropicana demolition: &#8220;A very sad day for Weston&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A working party of North Somerset Council today agreed to recommend to the council&#8217;s ruling Conservative Executive that Weston-super-Mare&#8217;s Tropicana should be demolished and the site returned to beach. The working party has been meeting for many months and met for the final time today following the results of a round of &#8220;soft marketing testing&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westoncentral.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/11/28/tropicana-demolition-a-very-sad-day-for-weston/</link>
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		<title>Weston transport links could improve after cash boost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WESTON’S transport infrastructure could receive a welcome boost through a new Government cash injection. The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), which includes North Somerset, will receive £11.3million from a growing places fund designed to deliver projects to support jobs and housing. And that will mean more money could be spent on improving transport [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westoncentral.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/11/26/weston-transport-links-could-improve-after-cash-boost/</link>
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		<title>Fears that council will risk taxpayers’ money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AFTER ongoing legal disputes over North Somerset Council’s investment in an Icelandic bank, a councillor has spoken of the risks which more overseas investment may pose to taxpayers’ money. As of September 30, the council had £58.2million invested in banks, deposits and government bonds, according to the treasury management report, which was recently considered by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westoncentral.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/11/25/fears-that-council-will-risk-taxpayers%e2%80%99-money/</link>
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		<title>Save our youth service protestors rock Town Hall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The council chamber at Weston-super-Mare Town Hall rocked to the chants and protests of young people tonight. Dozens of young campaigners, supported by their friends and families, lobbied councillors ahead of a council meeting in a bid to stop massive £600,000 cuts to youth services being proposed as part of the North Somerset Council budget [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westoncentral.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/11/15/save-our-youth-service-protestors-rock-town-hall/</link>
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