South Gloucestershire Labour has launched its campaign for the 70 seats on the district council that are up for election on Thursday 5th May. The theme of Labour’s manifesto is that the Party will be the community’s voice in the tough times ahead. It outlines the Con Dem Coalition’s harsh treatment of local government, the litany of broken Tory promises
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South Gloucestershire Liberal Democrats fired the opening shots in the 2011 Local Election campaign when they launched their ‘Action for our Area’ manifesto in Bradley Stoke last weekend. Local MPs Steve Webb and Don Foster joined local candidates and activists to promote the document that promises to “create a Council that works for you … not for the Government”. Voters
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A parish council is facing demands from local Conservatives to explain why it has wasted thousands of pounds needlessly replacing local bus shelters. A report taken to South Gloucestershire Council’s transport scrutiny committee has confirmed that LibDem-run Yate Town Council went ahead and replaced its own shelters, even though it had been told by South Gloucestershire Council not to do
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Conservative councillors on South Gloucestershire Council have challenged their Labour opponents to come up with their own plan to protect local services. The challenge laid down to Labour councillors follows their criticism of Conservative plans to protect frontline services, whilst further reducing local spending on waste, bureaucracy and duplication in line with the Chancellor’s plans to tackle the national debt
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Liberal Democrat councillors in South Gloucestershire have followed their Westminster leaders in backing a Conservative vision of outsourcing and cuts, according to Labour councillors on South Gloucestershire Council. In early October the council’s ruling Conservative Cabinet agreed its vision on which to base the council’s future key strategies, plans, budget and organisation. This stated unambiguously that the council would become
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For the last few months Jack Lopresti MP has been holding constituency surgeries at different venues all over the Filton and Bradley Stoke constituency. On Friday 24th September, he held one at the Almondsbury Community Shop. Mr Lopresti said: “The Community Shop in Almondsbury is simply an inspiration.” “The reward to villages in having a community shop reaches far beyond
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Conservative councillors on South Gloucestershire Council have welcomed the pledge by the new Coalition government to ‘rapidly’ scrap the previous Labour Government’s controversial Regional Spatial Strategies. The pledge was contained in the Coalition’s ‘Our Programme for Government’ document published on Thursday 20th May. The South West Regional Spatial Strategy (SWRSS) had proposed huge new urban extensions in order to accommodate
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Voting in the three parliamentary constituencies in South Gloucestershire has seen two Conservative and one Liberal Democrat candidates selected to represent the area in the House of Commons. The biggest surprise came in Kingswood where the sitting MP Roger Berry (Labour) was ousted by Chris Skidmore (Conservative) thanks to a 9.4% swing from Labour to Conservative. Incumbent Steve Webb (Liberal
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