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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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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...
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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...
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Controversial Government plans to force a huge increase in new housing within Bristol and eat into the Green Belt...
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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...
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Residents in Bishopsworth will tomorrow get their chance to have a say on controversial plans to remodel a key south Bristol accident black-spot...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Conservative Councillors have today 'called-in' last week's Cabinet decision to restructure the City's Home Care Service...
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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...
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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...
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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..
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