Sam Townend for Bristol North West

Is this Council letting down disabled people?
Is this Council letting down disabled people? Bristol City Council is making disabled Council tenants wait years for necessary adaptations to their homes to allow them to have a basic decent standard of living. Bristol Council admits that its own tenants are getting a worse deal than tenants of Housing Associations. Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Bristol North West, Sam Townend, calls on the Council to re-direct resources to ensure essential adaptations are carried out now and to end the double standard with tenants of Housing Associations. Sam says, “During my door to door visits in the constituency many...

Chaos on St. Ursula’s Academy School bid
Chaos on St. Ursula’s Academy School bid There is chaos and uncertainty today about whether St. Ursula’s Catholic private school has made a decision to apply to become a state Academy school. This confusion has been caused by the Conservative candidate and new Chair of Governors, Charlotte Leslie, telling a meeting of 150 residents in Westbury on Trym on Monday that the School is making an expression of interest to become an Academy School. On the breakfast programme on Radio Bristol this morning the head-teacher Lynette Carter said “At the moment the School will not be going down the Academy...

Parliamentary candidate in bid to re-open historic Bristol pub
Parliamentary candidate in bid to re-open historic Bristol pub The Lamplighters Pub, on the riverbank at the end of Station Road in Shirehampton, has closed. Leon Franklin, the landlord for many years, closed the doors at the end of Sunday evening, 3 January 2010. “This is a real blow for all of us who have used the pub,” says Sam Townend, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Bristol North West, “The Lamplighters is the only pub on the river side of the Portway. It is centuries old and a unique venue beloved of many for family Sunday lunches and a quiet...