North Somerset

• News / Transport

  First trains on reopened Portishead railway could run in 2027

  The Portishead railway is being "fast tracked" and could begin construction in 2025

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• News / Long Ashton

  Controversial technology campus approved in green belt

  "Bristol gets the jobs, Weston gets the money and Long Ashton gets the hassle"

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• News / Politics

  Cuts will ‘strip council services to the bone’

  Closing some of North Somerset’s 14 council libraries is also being considered

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• News / Bristol airport

  Bristol Airport reveals plans to increase passengers to 15m per year

  The airport's masterplan to 2040 could also see a larger terminal building and new long-haul flights

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• News / Politics

  North Somerset interested in joining WECA

  As Angela Rayner 'urges councils to join combined authorities'

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• News / portishead

  Portishead railway link may face funding trouble

  MP Sadik Al-Hassan has written to government to express his concerns

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• Pubs and Bars / A-Z Bristol pub crawl

  A-Z Bristol Pub Crawl: The Failand Inn, Failand

  The Failand Inn in North Somerset is a marriage of both the old and the new

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• Music / Somerset International Festival of the Arts

  Inaugural Somerset International Festival of the Arts to take place in October

  Events will be staged from October 6-8 at St Andrew’s Church in Backwell

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