I warmly welcome the announcement by the Government that they intend to release the purse strings and fund the recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers.

I never pass up an opportunity to lobby for extra rail investment for the region. With the appointment of a new Secretary of State for Transport now is the time to make the case again.

We already have a string of improvements in the pipeline:

Cotham School secured a grant to both fence off the Stoke Lodge Open Space and also to modernise the dilapidated pavilion/changing rooms which are situated just off West Dene / Ebenezer Lane.

This is the email we received from YTL regarding the public consultation on their Brabazon Arena proposals. Make sure you have your say.

As residents will know First Bus ran a consultation on proposed changes to the No.2 bus route. On the whole the proposed changes have been rejected but there is a change to the Henbury & Brentry Area.

The full response is below:

I am pleased that the UK will become the first major economy in the world to end its contribution towards global warming, as a new law to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

There has quite rightly been a lot of public outcry at a recent spate of mindless vandalism in Henbury & Brentry in the last few weeks.

Earlier today the West of England Combined Authority voted to approve the last £11m needed to pay for the reopening of the Henbury Rail line (part of the MetroWest rail programme).

The Mayor and his Cabinet have now formally approved the heavily revised scheme to ‘upgrade’ the A4018. I touched on this in my last newsletter. My colleagues and I are broadly supportive of most of the revised plans.

We would urge all local residents to take part in the latest public consultation exercise on the future of the city’s parks and sports provision (https://bristol.citizenspace.com/management-of-place/parks-spor