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Further Setbacks on Weston’s Grand Pier

19.08.10

Contractors working on Weston-super-Mare’s Grand Pier have suffered another setback. The decking installed all around the new Pavilion building is already failing and it is feared that it will have to be lifted and re-laid.

Structural engineers have been called in to assess the problem and their report is awaited, but owner Kerry Michael fears the ….

Boxing To Return To Grand Pier

12.08.10

Boxing is making a return to Weston-super-Mare’s Grand Pier. Alex Demetriou from the Grand Pier has teamed up with Britain’s first officially licensed female boxer, Jane Couch MBE, to promote an amateur boxing event due to take place on Friday 3rd December. It will be the first of many boxing events planned throughout the year.

Boxing ….

Red Arrows Unfortunately Cancelled

11.08.10

The Red Arrows were booked to come to Weston-super-Mare on the afternoon of Monday 16th August, along with the Brietling Wing Walkers. Unfortunately we have had to cancel this event as the Pier is not yet open to the public. We did try to postpone the Red Arrows visit until the Pier was open, but ….

Grand Pier’s Opening Hit By Delay

04.08.10

Weston-super-Mare’s Grand Pier will not re-open this month, after the project was hit by further delays.

Pier owner Kerry Michael issued the following statement today: -

“Following a meeting with contractors today, it has become clear that we will not be able to re-open The Grand Pier this month.

“Practical completion should have taken place on 25th June ….

The Grand Bier For The Grand Pier

29.07.10

Weston-super-Mare’s Grand Pier is to have its very own real ale. The beer, which has been christened The Grand Bier, is available on draught and also in bottles.

Regency Purchasing Group, a procurement business for food, drink, utilities and equipment, has been responsible for commissioning the beer. The beer is being brewed by the Bristol Beer ….

Donkey To Be Raffled For RNLI

21.07.10

One of Weston-super-Mare’s decorated donkeys will be raffled off for the RNLI later this year. Horatio, one of the 40 donkeys, has set up home in the town’s museum in Burlington Street.

Horatio was painted by local artist Renee Kilburn and he was sponsored by local businessman Nelson Penfold.

The donkey will stay at the Museum until ….

Recycling Weston’s Grand Pier

19.07.10

Decking salvaged from Weston’s Grand Pier after the fire in July 2008 has been recycled into furniture.

Over 100 benches, 80 full size tables, 320 seats and seating on the new land trains have all been made from the salvaged wood.

The remainder of the wood from the Pier went to Somerset Wood Recycling, a not-for-profit social ….

Spider To Install Grand Pier Lighting System

16.07.10

A specialist piece of machinery will be arriving on Weston-super-Mare’s Grand Pier this week (Monday 21st June), to install the three and a half kilometres of feature lighting on the new Pavilion building and covered walkway.

The narrow-entrance access work platform, or Spider as it is known in the trade, can fit through very narrow spaces ….

Karting School For Pier

16.07.10

The owners of Weston’s Grand Pier will set up a junior karting school on the newly installed 300 metre long Go Kart track, when the attraction opens this summer.

Children aged eight to fifteen will be taken through beginner, intermediate and advanced driver training. Lessons can be booked on either  Saturday and Sunday mornings from 9am ….

Grand Pier To Get Tourist Signs On M5 Motorway

13.07.10

Weston-super-Mare’s Grand Pier has been granted permission, by the Highways Agency, to have brown tourism signs erected on the M5 to advertise the attraction.

Permission from the Highways Agency comes after intervention from Weston MP and Minister for Tourism and Heritage John Penrose.

An initial approach to the Highways Agency by the Pier owners Kerry and Michelle ….