• Road-closure bid prompts protest

  By Chipnum

  Considering the Highwood Road modifications are a key component of the BRT North Fringe - Hengrove...

            

   

  By The Post at 05:00 on 19/05/12

  

  TOWN councillors are due to hand in a petition to try to stop a Patchway dual carriageway being closed to traffic – and want as many residents to join them as possible. A new £6-million link road has been built between Cribbs Causeway and the A38 to replace Highwood Road, which is soon due to close to general traffic. But town councillors and residents launched a campaign to try to stop the move – claiming closing...

• Cash for urgent repairs to three Bristol schools

  By yiddo7

  3 TIMES PATCHWAY HAS LOST OUT, IT SO BADLY NEEDS REPAIRING .UNLIKE WINTERBOURNE WHICH ONLY A FEW...

            

   

  By The Post at 11:00 on 25/05/12

  

  THREE Bristol schools have been awarded cash from a new £2 billion rebuilding pot. Around 15 city schools had submitted bids to the Priority School Building Programme, aimed at schools "in need of urgent repair". Yesterday Education Secretary Michael Gove published a list of the 261 successful applicants, which included Hillfields primary school, St Anne's Park primary school and St Ursula's, the new primary academy...

• Centre trustees 'confused' by parents' protest plans

  By AnnoyedDad

  Hello kawright, you raise some very valid points about the parents' group. Attempting to enter the...

            

   

  By The Post at 07:30 on 18/05/12

  

  TRUSTEES of a centre for youngsters with disabilities and life-limiting illnesses say they are "confused" by plans for a protest by parents. Some of the families using the Hop Skip and Jump centre in Kingswood say their views have been ignored by the charity running the specialist centre. They are upset that the charity has moved its focus away from a drop-in service to respite sessions, and marchers are expected to...

• Old-style committees voted back in as old cabinet system is scrapped

  By Aslaw

  Good to have a reporter at the meeting, but sadly there are misquotations. How do I know? I'm...

            

   

  By The Post at 05:00 on 24/05/12

  

  A RETURN to rule by old-style committees will go ahead at South Gloucestershire Council after members officially scrapped the cabinet system. Labour councillors had called for committees to make a comeback instead of leaving most of the decision making in the hands of just seven councillors. They were supported by Liberal Democrats and together at a vote in March, with the council hung, they were able to outvote the Tories. Although...

• Doctors being 'held to ransom' over asylum seekers

  By shaun1964

  asylum seekers please all go back to your countries,we have thought on behalf of you in iraq...

            

   

  By The Post at 05:00 on 22/05/12

  

  A ROW has broken out between GPs and a Bristol law firm over treatment of failed asylum seekers. The clash comes after city-based lawyers Deighton Pierce Glynn warned GP practices that refused to register asylum seekers that they faced legal action. One leading city doctor said involving lawyers in the process was "the wrong way of doing things" and called for common sense to be applied instead. And a Tory MP has accused ...

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