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🆕 Councillors unanimously endorsed our plan to make parks safer for women and girls

Better lighting along paths, more help and information points, visible staff or wardens on site and more, coming soon 👇

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Parks to be made safer for women and girls
A pilot will be rolled out to make Bristol's parks more accessible after dark
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November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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It’s Transgender Awareness Week 🏳️‍⚧️

We celebrate our trans community and stand for a world where everyone can live as themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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We stopped the Green Party's plans to hike the Clean Air Zone charge to £14 a day

To improve air quality, the council needs to boost public transport and phase out its own polluting vehicles - not tax working people to fund new Residents Parking Zones

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Bristol Clean Air Zone: Councillors vote against fee hike
Plans to raise the Clean Air Zone charge from £9 to £14 a day have been blocked.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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😤 Bristol Greens pre-election: "we will return this youth club to the community!"

🤥 Bristol Greens post-election: "actually, we're going to demolish it - or just let it become derelict"

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Former youth club to be demolished, despite election promise
The building is leased to a church until May next year, after which its future is uncertain
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November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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🪧 Support staff at the Cathedral Schools Trust have been forced to take industrial action. They have our full support in their fight for fair pay.

📣 Our statement
We're backing the school support staff of Cathedral Schools Trust. Teaching assistants, administrators, librarians, finance officers, caretakers, caterers and more. Support staff are the backbone of our schools, keeping them running and supporting every child's learning and wellbeing. For years, Cathedral Schools Trust refused to sign up to nationally agreed NJC pay and conditions, with the pay award delayed by five months. Pay rises should be fully backdated - always. Progress has been made, but while seven executives share more than £1million in salaries, hard working staff are left hundreds of pounds worse off. This is a moral outrage. The support staff at the Cathedral Trust have our full backing. I would urge the senior management team at the Trust to settle this dispute and ensure school support staff receive the pay they deserve.
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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🚞 The West of England has waited 25 years for the Portishead Line

🌹 Under a Labour Government, a Labour Mayor, and a local Labour MP, it's finally being delivered

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'New chapter' as key Portishead Railway work begins
The railway which closed in 1964 is due to reopen by 2028
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November 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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🏋️ A new gym opened in Frome Vale without planning permission, blasting music from dawn till dusk. Neighbours have had enough

🌹 While the Green-led council refuses to act, local Labour councillor Louis Martin is standing up for his residents

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Residents voice objections amid growing anger at 'illegal' gym
It has been open without permission since July
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October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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💰 The Green-led council is spending £5m of Clean Air Zone fines on new Residents' Parking Zones. It'd be better spent on new buses, filling potholes, and road safety improvements.

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Calls to stop resident parking zones expansion across Bristol
Drivers in several neighbourhoods will soon have to pay for a permit to park near their home
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October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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🙅 The South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood should be debated this week. However, the Greens have undemocratically blocked the petitioners from being heard

📣 Everyone deserves to have their say, whether the Greens agree with them or not

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Thousands sign petition calling for rethink on major traffic scheme
Campaigners are 'urging decision-makers to listen to the community now, not after the consultation has ended'
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October 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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🆕 The Green-led council is blocking a petition from local residents which raises concerns about the proposed roadblocks in Southville

👇 Read our letter to Ed Plowden, Bristol Green Party Transport Chief

📣 Residents deserve to be heard
A letter from Cllr Renhard and Cllr Rippington, outlining that a petition concerning the South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood that meets the council's requirements for a debate has been blocked from coming to the next Transport Committee meeting.
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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✅ We're proud to have helped deliver Temple Quarter - one of Europe's biggest brownfield regeneration projects

💸 Find out more about its Community Fund - grants to support community organisations and projects in and around Temple Quarter

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Temple Quarter Community Fund
The Temple Quarter Community Fund is designed to make sure local people and community organisations can benefit from change happening in their area. Grants of up to £5,000 (Tier 1) and up to £1,000…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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📢 Residents and local businesses have told the Green-led council its plans for a 'traffic filter' on Dovercourt Road will have a negative impact

👂 The Green Party needs to listen and respond to concerns
October 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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💸 The Labour Government is giving Hartcliffe £20m - the local community will decide how it's spent

📈 After years of neglect under the Tories, Labour is investing in the areas that need it most

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Government minister tells Hartcliffe 'you decide' how to spend £20m
"It's over to you - Government has never done this before"
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October 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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📣 The East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood scheme needs to change. Read our full statement

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October 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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We will never tolerate racism in our city. Bristol belongs to everyone who calls it home.

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'Bring these cowardly thugs to justice' says Labour after hate crimes
"Bristol is, and always will be, a proud, diverse place where all our communities stand with each other"
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October 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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📣 Our statement on recent racist attacks in Bristol
In the past few weeks, Bristol has seen a nine-year-old racially abused and shot with an air rifle in Brentry, a racist attack on two men in Lawrence Hill, and Islamophobic graffiti on a bus stop in Bedminster. These attacks on members of Bristol’s communities are abhorrent and need to end. The cowardly actions of a small number of racists are leaving our neighbours anxious in their own city. Every one of the thugs behind these incidents needs to be brought to justice. Bristol is, and always will be, a proud, diverse place where all our communities stand with each other. We will call out the appalling actions of the few in our city who seek to cause division and harm. Racism will never be tolerated.
September 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Labour's backing the builders, not the blockers.

🏘️ 6,500 new homes
👷 30,000 new jobs
🎶 20,000 capacity arena
🏫 Three new schools
🧪 Laboratories and advanced manufacturing facilities
🌲 The largest park to be built in the South West for 50 years

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Brabazon to play key role in government's plans for new towns
A part of the development in north Bristol is now included in the list of new towns
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September 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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🛴 Following our campaign for better night-time transport, Dott e-scooters and e-bikes will be available for use 24/7 from Wednesday 1 October

🚌 This comes alongside the new night bus services - giving Bristolians travel options around the clock
September 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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We welcome the Government's decision to recognise the State of Palestine - an inalienable right of the Palestinian people and a vital step towards achieving a two-state solution

Bristol City Council is marking the occasion by flying the flag of Palestine outside of City Hall
The flag of Palestine outside of City Hall, Bristol. Photo credit: Bristol City Council
September 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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📣 The Green / Lib Dem administration’s fee hike for St Nicks market is unaffordable for the traders. Time to go back to the drawing board
St Nick’s Market has been home to traders since 1743. It is a historic asset, a destination for tourists, and offers a vibrant array of independent shops. During our conversations with traders, they have said the fee increases will put them out of business. The council’s own report states that, if these fee increases go ahead, ‘the council risks higher vacancy levels at the market, leading to financial losses from reduction in licence fee revenue.’ Labour councillors cannot support these outrageous fee increases in their current form. Clearly, it is time for the council to go back to the drawing board. The council would be better off by exploring opportunities to expand the market’s opening hours, in partnership with the independent traders that make the market what it is today.
September 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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🤝 Pay Bristol’s bus drivers what they deserve

📣 Our statement
We're backing Bristol's Bus Drivers First Group made £204.3m in profit last year. Shareholder dividends were up by 45%. Yet, bus drivers have been forced to take industrial action to get the pay rise they deserve. The main sticking point in negotiations is First Group’s refusal to back date their drivers’ pay rise in full. Backdating it would cost around 0.15% of First Groups’s yearly profits. Doing so is clearly affordable and reasonable. Without our bus drivers, Bristol would grind to a halt. These strikes are causing severe disruption to Bristol’s workers. Senior management need to get back to the negotiating table with Unite and give our bus drivers the wages they have earned.
September 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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🎚️ A gym has opened in Fishponds. It's disturbing local residents by playing loud music from 'dawn until dusk' - even though its planning application was refused

👎 No enforcement action from the Green-led council. It needs to get its act together

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‘Illegal’ gym causing despair for residents
The "premium gym for the community" has been accused of operating without planning permission
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September 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Bullying and harassment in the workplace is unacceptable. Demanding the names of councillors who don’t want to listen to gender critical people is an example of this.

Thank you to my Labour colleagues and those from other parties who are prepared to make trans people feel safe in this city.
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September 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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🚸 30 free hours childcare for working parents in Bristol
🥣 Free breakfast clubs
🥪 Increased access to free school meals

✅ Labour is delivering for families in Bristol. Change has begun.
September 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM