Bristol MP backs campaign against legal loan sharks
A Bristol MP has backed an online campaign against legal “loan sharks” charging extortionate rates of interest to the most vulnerable in society.
A Bristol MP has backed an online campaign against legal “loan sharks” charging extortionate rates of interest to the most vulnerable in society.
Bristol city councillors have voted in favour of setting up a new committee to try to stop a repeat of the errors in the run up to this year’s elections.
The government has announced plans “in principle” to abolish the Government Office for the South West based in Bristol.
Bristol City Council has said lessons have been learned following a report which criticised the way this year’s parliamentary and council elections were run in the city.
Liberal Democrats on Bristol City Council have reacted angrily to attacks made by Labour councillors over the council’s plans to cut the city’s budget.
A group of influential Bristolians are calling for a new debate over whether the city should have a directly elected mayor.
Labour leadership runner David Miliband has suggested that exams for school pupils aged 16 should be scrapped in favour of a single “graduation exam” at the age of 18.
A black councillor who called an Asian colleague a “coconut” during a Bristol City Council debate has been found guilty of racially aggravated harassment.
Labour members of Bristol City Council will be asking tonight whether weekly bin collections will be reinstated in the city
Bristol City Council is following the lead of the new coalition government by asking residents to submit their ideas on how to reduce public spending in the city.
