Weston-super-Mare's Birnbeck Pier is a step closer to reopening to the public after securing £10million from The National ...

Halloween Pumpkin: Ben Rayner from Highbridge in Somerset has grown a pumpkin that is about 3ft (91cm) tall and the size of a ...

THE Mayor of Weston-super-Mare, Cllr John Crockford-Hawley, has written a column for the Mercury after the announcement of a £10m lifeline Birnbeck Pier's restoration project. Here is what he wrote ...

He said he is the cousin of Cecil Smith-Piggott, the four-year-old son of the lord of the manor who laid the pier's foundation stone using a ceremonial trowel. Mr Crockford-Hawley said the ...

John Crockford-Hawley, Weston-super-Mare's mayor, learnt of the discovery ahead of the announcement of a £10m package to save ...

A deteriorating pier significant to the Dambusters raid during the Second World War has received a £10 million lifeline from ...

Will Stone MP grapples with pro-MMA fighter Matt Inman in a match held at Croydon's Fairfield Halls. The new Labour MP for ...

Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare has moved a 'step closer to reopening' after being awarded a £10 million lifeline by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project, led by North Somerset Council ...

Cantor Fitzgerald and Silverstein Properties have topped off Shorehaven, the first phase of South Pier, a $1.8 billion ...

The project to reopen the pier, which is on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register, is due to be completed by autumn ...

The announcement was made today, Monday, October 28, 160 years to the day since the pier’s foundation stone was laid on October 28, 1864. The project, led by North Somerset Council in partnership with ...