The City Council is consulting on the development plan for the next 20 years, (known as the Local Development Frame Work). read full story / add a comment

North Somerset's recently been exposed for dumping thousands of its library books in recycling bins. It's also flogging off many more at bargain-basement prices. In fact I recently bought a pristine hardback copy of Noam Chomsky's "Failed States" - published less than 12 months ago - for just 30p from the council's public library in Portishead. A bargain for me, but a shame that others now won't be able to study Chomsky's incisive analysis on the USA as a failed state and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
MR read full story / add a comment

The City Academy is intending to finger-print schoolchildren to allow them to get their lunch read full story / add a comment

Nick Gurney, Chief Executive of Bristol City Council, doesn't want to be on public buses, sitting beside people he doesn't know read full story / add a comment

Bristol North West Labour Constituency Party members have selected Sam Townend as their parliamentary candidate. He coyly tells the local press he’s “a lawyer from Hackney”.

Leaving aside the fact that according to the Labour Party nobody in Bristol is up to the job of representing the city in Westminster, for some reason Sam is not being entirely honest about his background here.

This ever so ‘umble lawyer from Hackney - perhaps earning a small crust from legal aid work for the downtrodden citizens of the UK’s poorest borough? - is no such fucking thing. He’s actually a - wait for it - Cambridge educated barrister, specialising in corporate law, living in the rather more charming and upmarket environs of Southwark! read full story / add a comment

I have been advised that the council has decided to drop its prosection of STW

Thought you might like to know. read full story / add a comment

Useless Bristol Education Department employs corrupt waste of space consultant! read full story / add a comment

It's the Holland and Hammond show!
http://thebristolblogger.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/its-the-holland-and-hammond-show/ read full story / add a comment

There's a power vacuum in the city and it's time for someone to seize the initiative... read full story / add a comment

http://thebristolblogger.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/lib-dems-lose-control-of-the-council/ read full story / add a comment

Concerned about how Swindon will be developed over the next 20 years? The "Swindon core strategy" is being consulted on until the 23rd of May. Anyone can respond, so don't complain you wern't asked (just complain when you respond and are ignored?). read full story / add a comment

I have been looking at the Bristol Local Election results and I think the real story is the slow, but sure march of the Greens as a political force in Bristol, and this is driven by the change in the culture of the city towards ecological and sustainable issues. read full story / add a comment

In April 2007, Labour candidate Busharat Ali published an image that 'proved' he was "on the National March in London against the Iraq war"... but it soon turned out that he had simply photoshopped himself into the picture (and rather clumsily at that)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsOUqIRGMoY read full story / add a comment

Oh dear, looks like the brash Lawrence Hill Labour candidate has blustered a step too far this time... He's been rumbled putting faked photos on his election leaflets! Ironically, he did this on a leaflet attacking his opponents for being "desperate liars". Not much more needed to say really... read full story / add a comment

The BNP claim to have had their Bristol Stormtroopers out on our streets every of the election campaign. read full story / add a comment

I notice that Neo-Labour are trying to get in on the 'Bash Kiely' action over the privatisation of home care...the CHEEK and audacity of Neo-Labour's propaganda is staggering. Totally staggering. read full story / add a comment

Back on 22 March Bristol City Council agreed a proposal by LibDem cabinet member John Kiely (Easton ward) to privatise the remaining in-house home care service (see http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=26039 & http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=26086)

Since then the workers have been out and about protesting loudly about this attack on services for older & disabled vulnerable people in the community, and the attack on their jobs and conditions. This Friday, 20 April, at 2pm, they will march for a second time in Kiely’s Easton ward – meet 2pm on St Marks Rd, Easton, BS5. The event is backed by the TGWU. read full story / add a comment

A copy of a letter written to Gary Hopkins giving his support to Abdul Malik as the next mayor of Bristol in which he describes Mr Malik as 'a great advert for the city' and a 'really great advert of an inner-city bloke making good'. Read on to get an alternative point of view... read full story / add a comment

Top article on Liam Fox MP at:
www.ianbone.wordpress.com read full story / add a comment

A meeting of Somerset Tories has concluded that the current Labour Government will not complete its full-term. While the Tories have not changed their agenda at all (still racist, still anti-working class) and news reports of Cameron's plans to save the NHS are a smokescreen, the Labour Governement is seen as ripe for the taking. Tony Blair's standing-down as Prime Minister will be the signal for concerted media attacks on whoever replaces him, with influential dailies including the Rupert Murdoch owned newspapers leading the call for the Tories to be returned to power. 'We are confident of victory in the next General Election' said one source.' If Labour make it to 2009, we'll be surprised. Nu-Labour has moved so far to the right that Middle England will hardly notice the difference.' read full story / add a comment