Thursday Nov 19 | Weston and Somerset Mercury
'Frightening' racist response to mosque
SHOCKED anti-racism campaigners have described the public reaction to a planned mosque in Weston as 'frankly frightening'. North Somerset Council this week revealed it had to discard 97 per cent of 157 letters of objection to a proposed Muslim Centre in Orchard Street because of their racist nature.
CONSERVATIVE supporter Audrey Du Feu used her letter in last week's paper to attack me for being ... wait for it ... local.
Councillor says parking excuse is a red herring
NORTH Somerset's deputy council leader blames Weston's parking chaos on 'lax police and law flouting traders'. Councillor Elfan Ap Rees said the excuses given last week for the parking free-for-all were more of a 'red herring'. At Tuesday night's full council meeting he was questioned about Weston's parking nightmare as reported in last weeks ...
"Non-essentials will choke out creativity." Edward Weston, a great American photographer, made this statement in a recently-released documentary.