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Weymouth and Portland is a
local government district and
borough in
Dorset,
England. It consists of the resort of
Weymouth and the
Isle of Portland, and outlying villages including
Preston,
Melcombe Regis,
Upwey,
Broadwey,
Fortuneswell and
Easton.
The
district of Weymouth and Portland was formed on
1 April 1974 under the
Local Government Act 1972, which merged the
borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis and the nearby
Portland urban district. The
Mayor of Weymouth and Portland is David Harris (
Lib Dem), with Tim Munro (
Independent) as Deputy Mayor. The district is divided into 15 wards for elections—12 of them are in Weymouth, and three are on Portland.
Elections take place in a four-year cycle; one third of the councillors in all but three wards retire or seek re-election in years one, two and three, and county council elections are held in year four.
Weymouth and Portland and
Purbeck districts are in the
Dorset South parliamentary
constituency, created in 1885. The constituency elects one
Member of Parliament. The current MP for Dorset South is
Jim Knight, a member of the
Labour Party, who currently holds the post of
Minister of State for Schools. Weymouth and Portland, the rest of the
south west, and
Gibraltar are in the
South West England constituency of the
European Parliament.
In
Portland Harbour is the
Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, where the sailing events at the
2012 Olympics will take place. The main reason that the resort was chosen to be an
Olympic venue was the fact that the Sailing Academy had only recently been built, so no new venue would need to be provided.
Weymouth and Portland's waters have also been credited by the
Royal Yachting Association as the best in
Northern Europe.
Weymouth and Portland have been twinned with the town of
Holzwickede in
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany since 1986, and the
French town of
Louviers, in the
department of
Eure in
Normandy, since 1959.
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