Weston-super-Mare’s Grand Pier has been chosen as the venue to launch British Tourism Week (BTW). This year’s BTW theme is Party on the Pier.
The week will be launched on Saturday 12th March by Tourism Minister and Weston-super-Mare MP John Penrose.
Party on the Pier will kick off the fifth annual BTW, with simultaneous parties hosted on seaside piers, harbours and jetties around the coast and on inland rivers, canals and lakes up and down the country.
John Penrose MP said: “Party on the Pier is a great opportunity to showcase a unique part of British heritage. I, for one, will be encouraging my constituency to get involved – celebrating on the brilliant newly refurbished Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare”.
Grand Pier owner Kerry Michael said: “I am delighted that the Grand Pier has been chosen to launch British Tourism Week. We have a lot to celebrate at Party on the Pier now that we have re-opened. I can’t emphasise how important tourism is to the local economy. Tourism in the West Country is worth more than £300 million per annum and Weston-super-Mare is the largest local destination”.
BTW is organised by VisitBritain with the support of the Tourism Alliance, the UK’s national and regional tourist boards, and an Executive Committee made up of a number of public and private sector organisations.
The week aims to raise local, regional, national and international awareness of the size, value and importance of Britain’s £115 billion visitor economy. Tourism is the fifth largest industry in the UK that employs, directly or indirectly, 2.6 million people.
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Monday 24 January 2011
Friday 21 January 2011
Rap Artist Tinchy Stryder To Play The Grand Pier
Rap artist Tinchy Stryder is to play a concert at Weston-super-Mare’s Grand Pier on Friday 28th January. It is the first major music concert to be held at the venue since it re-opened to the public in October 2010. The Rapper will play to 2,000 people in the Pavilion’s Great Hall.
Tinchy Stryder rose to popularity with the song ‘Take Me Back’ which reached number three in the UK Singles Chart in January 2009. His next hit‘Number 1’ (a collaboration with N-Dubz) which entered the charts at number one in July 2009. His second number one ‘Never Leave You’ featured Amelle Berrabah from girl-group, the Sugarbabes.
Pier owner Kerry Michael said he was thrilled to have secured such a famous, chart topping artist for the first concert.
He said: “I always envisaged the Grand Pier becoming a major venue on the music scene in the South West and to have been able to sign up Tinchy Stryder is a major coup and is absolutely fantastic for us. This is the first of many big-name concerts we are planning for the Pier and I am sure the tickets will sell out very quickly”.
Tickets, which are standing only, will be on sale from 9am this Wednesday the 12th January are on sale now – click here to buy priced at £19.50 each. Tickets are only available through this official Grand Pier website.
Exclusive VIP tickets will be available at £75 each. The VIP reception will be held in the Regency Suite with canapés, bar and of course, the best view in the house closest to the stage.
Doors open at 5.30pm until 7.30pm. The bars and restaurants will be open as usual and all Grand Pier rides and attractions will also be operating.
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Tinchy Stryder rose to popularity with the song ‘Take Me Back’ which reached number three in the UK Singles Chart in January 2009. His next hit‘Number 1’ (a collaboration with N-Dubz) which entered the charts at number one in July 2009. His second number one ‘Never Leave You’ featured Amelle Berrabah from girl-group, the Sugarbabes.
Pier owner Kerry Michael said he was thrilled to have secured such a famous, chart topping artist for the first concert.
He said: “I always envisaged the Grand Pier becoming a major venue on the music scene in the South West and to have been able to sign up Tinchy Stryder is a major coup and is absolutely fantastic for us. This is the first of many big-name concerts we are planning for the Pier and I am sure the tickets will sell out very quickly”.
Tickets, which are standing only, will be on sale from 9am this Wednesday the 12th January are on sale now – click here to buy priced at £19.50 each. Tickets are only available through this official Grand Pier website.
Exclusive VIP tickets will be available at £75 each. The VIP reception will be held in the Regency Suite with canapés, bar and of course, the best view in the house closest to the stage.
Doors open at 5.30pm until 7.30pm. The bars and restaurants will be open as usual and all Grand Pier rides and attractions will also be operating.
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Friday 7 January 2011
Karting School For Pier
The owners of Weston’s Grand Pier are launching a junior karting school on their 300 metre long Go Kart track.
Children aged eight to fifteen, who enrol in the school, will be taken through beginner, intermediate and advanced driver training.
Lessons can now be booked on either Saturday or Sunday mornings from 9.30am to 10.30am.
Each child will be issued with its own driving licence, which charts their progression through the school and includes ‘endorsements’ for bad driving. They will be trained in safety, kart control and race technique.
The racing school will also be staging its own championship held over a series of rounds for drivers who have completed the advanced training course.
The Junior School will be launched on Saturday 5th February and the price is £25 per lesson or courses of three lessons can be purchased for £60. For more information visit our website www.grandpierkarting.co.uk
Grand Pier Go Kart track manager Russell Mabley said: “I am sure the karting school will be very popular. It’s a must for aspiring Jensen Button’s everywhere.”
To register your interest in the karting school email russell.mabley@grandpier.co.uk
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Children aged eight to fifteen, who enrol in the school, will be taken through beginner, intermediate and advanced driver training.
Lessons can now be booked on either Saturday or Sunday mornings from 9.30am to 10.30am.
Each child will be issued with its own driving licence, which charts their progression through the school and includes ‘endorsements’ for bad driving. They will be trained in safety, kart control and race technique.
The racing school will also be staging its own championship held over a series of rounds for drivers who have completed the advanced training course.
The Junior School will be launched on Saturday 5th February and the price is £25 per lesson or courses of three lessons can be purchased for £60. For more information visit our website www.grandpierkarting.co.uk
Grand Pier Go Kart track manager Russell Mabley said: “I am sure the karting school will be very popular. It’s a must for aspiring Jensen Button’s everywhere.”
To register your interest in the karting school email russell.mabley@grandpier.co.uk
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Thursday 6 January 2011
Stargazing Live at the Grand Pier
The BBC Stargazing Live team paid a special visit to the Grand Pier to film in December.
The programme presenter, Professor Brian Cox, wanted to talk about horizons – and what better place as a backdrop than Weston bay and the Grand Pier.
Brian Cox also talked about gravity and why planets are spherical. He even used some of the arcade machines to demonstrate gravitational pull.
The programme was aired as the first programme in three on BBC 2 on Monday 3rd January. The programme is available to watch on the BBC iPlayer web site until Wednesday 12th January.
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The programme presenter, Professor Brian Cox, wanted to talk about horizons – and what better place as a backdrop than Weston bay and the Grand Pier.
Brian Cox also talked about gravity and why planets are spherical. He even used some of the arcade machines to demonstrate gravitational pull.
The programme was aired as the first programme in three on BBC 2 on Monday 3rd January. The programme is available to watch on the BBC iPlayer web site until Wednesday 12th January.
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