• Conservative Cabinet told to be more transparent

  By BeckyFeather

  It would be helpful to know whether you, or anyone else who has been commenting on this story, has...

            

   

  By sglabour at 14:40 on 14/12/11

  

  The ruling Conservative Cabinet of South Gloucestershire Council has been told that it should have been more transparent in making a decision to buy a playing field in Longwell Green.   Councillors on the council's Corporate Co-ordination Select Committee heard this morning that the Conservative-run administration had decided to buy a privately-owned playing field at Williams Close for £17,000 more than the estimated...

• Labour fury at 'dodgy dossier'

  By HalLudden

  It seems that the council likes to work in under-hand ways, especially when combined with the...

            

   

  By sglabour at 15:36 on 15/12/11

  

  South Gloucestershire Council witnessed angry scenes last night after emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests were released showing how closely council officials have worked with BAE Systems and its agents Terence O'Rourke Ltd on closing Filton Airfield.   One email shows that the council was instrumental in supporting the production of BAE Systems' report justifying the closure of the Airfield.  Other...

• Labour slams delay to cardboard recycling scheme

  By tonio2009

  Some people are never satisfied.

            

   

  By sglabour at 16:49 on 20/07/11

  

  New measures to improve cardboard recycling in South Gloucestershire have been delayed until September.   Plans by South Gloucestershire Council to provide residents with a new bag for recycling cardboard were due to come into effect during the summer. This followed a huge number of complaints from residents after the council changed the way in which cardboard was collected. Previously residents were able to put cardboard into...

• Blunder sees more than 1,000 ballot papers in the Kingswood area recalled

  By king1and

  hope they have not been counted then, that def would make a mockery of things.

            

   

  By BeckyFeather at 09:49 on 26/04/11

  

  More than 1,000 postal vote ballot papers that were delivered in the Kingswood area have had to be pulled back by council officials because of a printing error. The papers for Parkwall ward had the wrong candidates printed on them. South Gloucestershire Council sent out a team to knock on the doors of those householders affected to retrieve the rogue papers and issue new ones. Read the story in full.

• MPs ‘with most to lose’ oppose change to voting

  By king1and

  what chris forgets with the one vote one member system is a government can be in power with as...

            

   

  By Kingswood People at 09:00 on 09/04/11

  

  THE two MPs in the Bristol area who would suffer most from the new AV voting system are those who have been most vocal against it, according to the Yes Campaign. Tory MPs Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West) and Chris Skidmore (Kingswood) have both become high-profile supporters of the First-Past-The-Post system. But the Yes Campaign says new research shows their seats are most likely to become more marginal if the new voting...

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