Politics

• News / Politics

  Ani Townsend runs for Green Party deputy leader

  Townsend is a theatrical milliner who was first elected as a Bristol councillor in 2015

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• News / floating harbour

  Report claims Floating Harbour gates ‘have surpassed their expected lifespan’

  However a councillor has assured the Floating Harbour will not empty of water even if the gates fail

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• Your say / Politics

  ‘The challenge to the mayor is to go further and faster’

  £752m of the Treasury's newly announced transport budget will be spent in the West of England

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• News / Politics

  No criminal activity by former deputy mayor Asher Craig

  Bristol City Council paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to a business Craig set up

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• News / Politics

  Norris continuing to vote in Commons despite being banned from parliamentary estate

  The current MP and former WECA mayor remains on police bail after being arrested in April

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• News / bristol city council

  Publicly owned buildings in Bristol are being sold off in secret

  It's unclear how many buildings have been sold and how much they were sold for

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• Features / Politics

  I visited UKIP’s national headquarters in Bristol

  UKIP say they are "the voice for the voiceless" - with their official HQ based in north Bristol

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• News / Politics

  Council considers selling off lord mayor’s Mansion House

  The proposals have sparked anger that the council is showing "contempt" for the city’s history

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