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South Gloucestershire Council’s Conservative transport chief has revealed that the authority is considering legal action after Ministers confirmed a larger than expected cut to the district’s bus budget...
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23 February 2010
The Conservative administration on South Gloucestershire Council has pushed through plans for the district’s lowest ever council tax rise, despite being one of the lowest funded councils of its kind in the country...
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The Conservative administration on South Gloucestershire Council has announced plans for the district's lowest ever council tax rise, despite being one of the lowest funded councils of its kind in the country...
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Bradley Stoke councillors have welcomed funding for an improved pedestrian crossing aimed at promoting walking to school in the town...
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Conservative councillors have slammed the Government after it revealed plans to slash South Gloucestershire Council's bus budget by £340,000...
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Proposals to help small businesses and defend the district against overdevelopment are to be put in front of Ministers...
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Conservative councillors have slammed the Government after it revealed plans to slash South Gloucestershire Council's bus budget by £340,000...
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Bristol Conservatives have accused Lib Dem and Labour Councillors of'wrecking' a Tory attempt to protect the Green Belt at last Tuesday's meeting of Full Council...
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Bristol Conservatives have committed themselves to a raft of measures which will put citizens at the heart of decision-making in the run up to the 4th June local elections...
Read Full Story 17 March 2009
Leading Bristol Lib Dem and Labour councillors have been accused of "squandering" taxpayers' money by voting to reprieve the 'lame duck' South West Regional Assembly (SWRA)...
Read Full Story 17 March 2009
Conservative Jay Jethwa is to challenge the Leader of Council Barbara Janke over what action she is taking to deal with the recent 'racist' statements made by one of her Lib Dem councillors Shirley Brown...
Read Full Story 17 March 2009
Bristol's Conservative Councillors have unveiled their priorities for this year's Council Budget which would see an extra £1 million invested in a raft of transport and recycling initiatives while cutting the Council Tax by £1.7 million...
Read Full Story 13 February 2009
A Conservative attempt to bring down Bristol's Labour Council failed last night after Lib Dem Councillors refused - for the second time in less than a year - to back the bid...
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Tory Councillors have challenged the Liberal Democrats to back their bid to throw out the City's minority Labour Administration at an Extraordinary Council Meeting tomorrow...
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South Gloucestershire Council's Conservative Cabinet has approved plans to devolve £1M of funding down to ward councillors to help tackle community decline...
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Labour control of Bristol City Council now hangs perilously in the balance following yesterday's controversial decision to press ahead with the closure of two Bristol primary schools...
Read Full Story 27 January 2009
The threatened closure of three Bristol primary schools could cause the collapse of the current Labour minority Administration on the 'hung' Council in the wake of a Tory threat to bring a "vote of no confidence...
Read Full Story 26 January 2009
South Gloucestershire's Conservative administration has unveiled a responsible budget designed to withstand the recession.
Read Full Story 23 January 2009
The Conservative administration on South Gloucestershire Council has announced plans to more than double the planned maintenance spend on its highways to £3.5M a year.
Read Full Story 23 January 2009
Primary schools in Pucklechurch and Staple Hill are to have major improvements under proposals being put forward by South Gloucestershire Council’s Conservative administration.
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Three Bristol primary schools threatened with closure could be saved if ideas put forward by opposition Conservatives are accepted by the City's Cabinet...
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CAMPAIGNERS in Bristol have helped launch The Conservatives' advertising campaign to highlight the human consequences of Labour's Debt Crisis...
Read Full Story 12 January 2009
Conservative councillors are predicting traffic chaos after it was revealed that the Highways Agency is to introduce 'ramp metering' at one of the Bristol area's busiest motorway junctions...
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Controversial plans to push ahead with two Residents' Parking pilots are back on-track after a Conservative challenge was defeated by Labour and Lib Dem councillors yesterday...
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Bristol Conservatives have called for a drastic cut in the amount spent each year by the City Council on publicity and public relations material...
Read Full Story 18 December 2008
Bristol Conservatives have claimed that today's referendum result in Manchester - which saw local people vote 4-to-1 against the introduction of road tolls - would be repeated locally if their plan for a city poll was accepted...
Read Full Story 15 December 2008
Bristol Conservatives have accused Councillor Peter Hammond, Cabinet Member for Cohesion & Raising Achievement, of "bad faith" over a promise to work with Opposition parties in the row over planned primary school closures....
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Controversial plans to press ahead with two Residents' Parking schemes in Bristol will be probed by a Scrutiny Panel of backbench councillors in the New Year...
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Bristol Tory leader Councillor Richard Eddy has called for controversial plans to cut up to a third of the City's specialist museum posts to be halted so that a new Council Select Committee can urgently examine the plans...
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Controversial plans to press ahead with Residents' Parking schemes in two parts of Bristol have been put on-hold after Tory Councillors swiftly challenged the decision...
Read Full Story 27 November 2008
Bradley Stoke councillors have congratulated St Mary's RC Primary School for coming 13th= in a Sunday Times ranking of the top 500 state primary schools in the country...
Read Full Story 22 November 2008
City Conservatives have stepped into the row over threatened funding for Bristol's oldest boys' club and are to fight its cause at the next meeting of a key Council Scrutiny Commission...
Read Full Story 22 November 2008
Bristol Tory Leader Councillor Richard Eddy has slammed the city's "botched" Primary School Review following the news that the Labour-run Authority has failed to secure £12 million funding for the scheme...
Read Full Story 13 November 2008
Conservative Councillor Mark Weston and Prospective MP Charlotte Leslie are challenging Bristol's Labour Cabinet to explain their failure to act in preventing the sale of Henbury railway station...
Read Full Story 10 November 2008
Conservative Councillors last night put controversial plans to close three Bristol primaries on-hold within seconds of the city's Labour Administration agreeing to shut the schools.
Read Full Story 31 October 2008
Controversial Government plans to force a huge increase in new housing within Bristol and eat into the Green Belt were savaged by Conservative Councillors at yesterday's Full Council meeting...
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Opposition Councillors last night forced Bristol's minority Labour Administration to agree to rethink its controversial plans to close three city primary schools...
Read Full Story 15 October 2008
Residents in Bishopsworth will tomorrow get their chance to have a say on controversial plans to remodel a key south Bristol accident black-spot...
Read Full Story 14 October 2008
Conservative Councillors on Bristol City Council are calling on the Authority to think again before endorsing proposals to close schools, merge others and create mega-primaries in the city...
Read Full Story 17 September 2008
Conservative Councillor Spud Murphy has called for an end to the provision of bottled water in Council Committee rooms and offices....
Read Full Story 21 February 2008
Local residents in Bishopsworth are demanding a Dispersal Order to help break-up gangs of up to 100 youths who regularly congregate in the area...
Read Full Story 19 February 2008
The leading national charity Help the Aged has called on Councils to introduce the choice of taxi tokens or the free bus pass...
Read Full Story 14 December 2007