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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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22 September 2009
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 28 May 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 13 February 2009
Bristol's Conservative Councillors
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 Marchy 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 17 March 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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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
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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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...
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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...
Read Full Story 15 October 2008
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
Tories on Bristol City Council have forced the Labour-run Administration into a humiliating climb-down over key aspects of their controversial Waste Strategy...
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Bristol Conservatives have slammed calls by Sir Paul Kennedy, the Interception of Communications Commissioner, for local Councils to make more use of surveillance powers originally planned to counter terrorism...
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Tory Councillors have forced a controversial Bristol Cabinet decision backing a mass-burn incinerator to be referred to Full Council for debate...
Read Full Story 31 July 2008
Bristol's Conservative Councillors have condemned the decision to recruit a bureaucrat at a cost of £50,000 (including sundry administration expenses)...
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Bristol Conservative Councillors have attacked plans to axe seven elderly people's care homes across the city...
Read Full Story 19 June 2008
Leading Bristol Conservatives have vowed to oppose the proposed closure of St Pius X Roman Catholic School in Gatehouse Avenue, Withywood, and fight for its future...
Read Full Story 17 June 2008
Conservatives on Bristol City Council have unveiled their Shadow Cabinet line-up in the wake of last week's political dust-up over the Council leadership...
Read Full Story 20 May 2008
Conservative Group Leader Councillor Richard Eddy is calling on Bristol City
Council to honour its pledge to erect a statue to Field Marshall Lord Slim...
Read Full Story 11 March 2008
Bristol Conservative Councillors have won a commitment by the City Council to significantly improve its project management arrangements in the wake of a £6 million overspend on the Redland Green Secondary School...
Read Full Story 29 February 2008
Bristol Conservative Councillors, who hold the balance of power on the hung authority, have won backing for their spending priorities in this year's Council Budget...
Read Full Story 26 February 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
Bristol Conservative Councillors have unveiled their priorities for this year's Council Budget which would see an extra £900,000...
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A leading City Councillor has challenged Bristol City Council to ditch "local government gobbledygook" and embrace plain English...
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Bristol Conservative Councillors have welcomed the Cabinet's climbdown over planned funding cuts which would have shut Marksbury Road library...
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Local Conservative Councillors Geoff Gollop and Ashley Fox have thrown their weight behind new road safety measures planned for Westbury on Trym CE Primary School...
Read Full Story 25 January 2008
Campaigners battling budget cuts which could lead to the closure of Marksbury Road library have won the backing of Bristol City Council's Culture watchdog...
Read Full Story 23 January 2008
Controversial plans to sell-off nearly 200 acres of city parkland and open spaces have been criticised by the Council watchdog responsible for culture and leisure services...
Read Full Story 22 January 2008
Conservative Councillors have today 'called-in' last week's Cabinet decision to restructure the City's Home Care Service...
Read Full Story 17 January 2008
Bristol City Council leaders have backed Bristol Old Vic's bid to secure £2 million of Arts Council funding for essential refurbishment works, which would see the 241 year old theatre open once again...
Read Full Story 17 January 2008
Conservatives on Bristol City Council have warned of the dangers of covering budget overspends and poor financial management through flogging-off the city's property assets...
Read Full Story 7 December 2007
Bristol City Council has backed down from the possibility of introducing congestion charging before there are substantial improvements in public transport...
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Bristol City Council is to lobby the Government...
Read Full Story 18 October 2007
A report on the findings of the Citizens' Jury on the City's waste collection and recycling service is to be considered by Councillors...
Read Full Story 11 October 2007
Conservative Councillor Ashley Fox is stepping up a campaign by residents to get Council contractors to properly maintain landscaping on Eastfield Estate, Westbury on Trym..
Read Full Story 11 September 2007