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The Government grant to enable work to start on the £300-million science park at Emersons Green is a huge economic boost to our area ("£10m to spark 6,000 new jobs", Evening Post, February 23).

This is, of course, why it has been warmly welcomed.

The South West Regional Development Agency, the local universities and all the other partners involved should be congratulated.

This investment will create one of the UK's biggest science parks, creating more hi-tech jobs and boosting the local economy, by building on our strengths.

As the Evening Post has also pointed out, the building of SPark has significant implications for the debate on the M4 Link. The idea of a link road from a new junction on the M4 to the Avon Ring Road at Emersons Green has been discussed on a number of occasions.

The reason is clear.

Traffic wishing to travel between the eastern fringe of Bristol and the M4 east of Junction 18 either has to travel on the ring road to the M32 or minor roads through Wick and Pucklechurch.

Neither option is satisfactory, which is why I have always found the case for the M4 Link persuasive.

The development of the science park now means that the case for the M4 Link must be urgently re-examined.

I have asked South Gloucestershire Council to do this as quickly as possible.

Roger Berry MP, (Labour, Kingswood).