By Susie Watkins
8th Dec 2021 | Local News
The region's top politicians finally got together in the same room and agreed something – a £50million green recovery fund – but it took a 90-minute interval to thrash it out behind the scenes.
A meeting of the West of England Combined Authority (Weca) committee was adjourned midway through when metro mayor Dan Norris told the leaders of the three councils that make up Weca that he would not agree to their demands to fund a wish-list of "unrelated projects", calling it "blackmail".