Fiona said:
"I am delighted that Jodrell Bank, of which the world famous dish is in my constituency, has been selected as the UK candidate for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. These are sites of ‘outstanding universal value’ and that is certainly true of Jodrell Bank which has been a pioneer of astrophysics since it was founded in 1945. It is now primarily used for investigating radio waves sent from planets and stars in the solar system – and has a brilliant Discovery Centre which all young people should visit!”