is £50 million that will be spent improving the rail links in cornwall. they are lengthening the platforms, introducing longer trains and making the services better so people can get more easily across that rural patch, but the nature of this process is that there are winners and losers. swindon didn t get £8 million it wanted to rejuvenate an abandoned swimming pool. sea defences won t be improved in ilfracombe, they wanted £5 million to spend on that and town centre improvements. it s worth bearing in mind it sounds like across the country around 20% of these bids were successful but that means there are plenty of places that have lost out. this is one of the big winners. £50 million coming to morecambe. it s a huge amount of money and equates to half the cost for eden project north. you may have been to the one in cornwall, well, the same sort of thing is planned for here in morecambe bay, which is behind me. this is the land where it s going
first, danjohnson is in somersert which has been given some £20 million. they are very pleased here because that £20 million will be spent on improving the seafront here, also a new community park, and they will invest in improving the tropicana, a seafront venue, which will become a new event space. there is a sense the south west has done well out of these bids that have been successfully announced today. there is £20 million for bridgwater to rejuvenate an abandoned hospital there, and turn that into a new medical training facility. £50 million for bristol where an old abandoned cinema will be cleared away for new homes and businesses and the biggest pot of money for the south west is £50 million that will be spent improving the rail links in cornwall they are lengthening the platforms, introducing longer trains and making the services better
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