Politics

• News / Politics

  Labour mayor appoints Green as deputy

  It is unusual for regional mayors and deputy mayors to be from different parties

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• Your say / planning

  ‘Farcical scenes during planning meetings put Bristol’s economic future at risk’

  Planning committee chair Don Alexander sets out some of his frustrations

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• News / Politics

  North Somerset to rectify decade-long ‘mistake’ and join WECA

  If councillors decide not to join, government "could nonetheless choose to enforce membership"

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• News / parks

  Charging for activities such as choirs in parks ‘doing real harm’

  Hundreds of people are urging Bristol City Council to consider changes to new parks licences

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• Your say / Politics

  ‘We have got the wheels turning at WECA over the last year’

  West of England mayor Helen Godwin marks her first year in office

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• News / Politics

  Legal challenge facing East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood if trial made permanent

  Campaigners say the scheme discriminates against disabled people

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• News / Politics

  Labour councillor ‘extremely disappointed’ to lose job in reshuffle

  Emily Clarke's demotion has been called "a strange decision" by another Labour councillor

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• News / Politics

  Letter laying out ‘chaos’ in Bristol under Greens delivered to voters in London

  A Green councillor says some of the claims in the letter by Zak Syedomar are "absurd"

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