bristol city council

• News / Edward Colston

  Plaque plinth palaver

  Councillors have again refused to accept the suggested wording for a new plaque on Colston's plinth

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• News / Politics

  Emotion, backslapping and fond farewells at final cabinet meeting

  The last game of Marvin Rees bingo was played in City Hall on Tuesday afternoon

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• News / bristol city council

  Fines for graffiti, fly-posting and fly-tipping to increase

  The changes take the rates up to new maximums allowed by a law passed in 2023

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• News / Transport

  Red asphalt added to bus gate that raked in £500,000 in fines

  It's part of an attempt by the council to improve the bus gate's visibility

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• News / Colston

  Historian defends proposed new wording for plaque on empty Colston plinth

  There has been criticism the suggested wording downplays the slave trader's acts

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• News / Local elections 2024

  All you need to know about the local elections next month

  Voters in Bristol will head to polling stations in a month’s time to decide who should run the city

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• News / allotments

  Allotment rent rises to be revisited after May elections

  The cabinet member responsible agreed to withdraw her controversial plan to massively hike the rents

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• News / St George Park

  Upset as ‘terrible’ bramble clearance destroys wildlife habitat

  The scrub was cleared from an area designated for local wildlife

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