Twelve years since it closed - and three failed regeneration attempts later - Weston's Tropicana is to be knocked down and returned to sand.

After a call for a judicial review, and the plans having to be resubmitted - the government's approved North Somerset Council's application to demolish the old swimming poole.

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles' decision also says that the scheme proposed by the Trop Limited group to save it is not viable or deliverable.

Councillor Tony Lake says demolition is the only real option:

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