Local news

Local MP Steve Webb has had a big response from local residents to his campaign for a direct bus link from the Yate area to the new Southmead Hospital in time for its opening next year.  

Thornbury & Yate MP Steve Webb has condemned this week’s announcement of large job cuts at Ashfield prison at Pucklechurch.   The Young Offenders Institution has now been emptied and will soon be used instead as a Category C prison for low and medium risk male sex offenders.   Yesterday the operators SERCO announced that this would involve around half of the workforce at Ashfield losing their jobs.

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Local MP Steve Webb has welcomed a major grant from the Big Lottery Fund to local advice services over the next two years.   The grant of just under £300,000 will support services provided by South Gloucestershire Citizens Advice Bureau, Age UK South Gloucestershire and the North Bristol Advice Centre.   These larger organisations will in turn partner with other local groups such as housing associations and charities, including the South Gloucestershire Deaf Association and the Alzheimer’s Society.

Local MP Steve Webb this week paid a surprise visit to the Dementia Day Service at Cambrian Green in Yate.  The reason for the visit was to celebrate the national prize awarded to Beth Tovey for the high quality of care that she and her team provide to service users at the Centre. 

Local MP Steve Webb has received a letter from prisons Minister Jeremy Wright seeking to offer reassurances over the planned change of Ashfield Prison at Pucklechurch from a Young Offenders Institution to a Category C prison housing male sex offenders.  

Thornbury & Yate MP Steve Webb has welcomed the news that the threatened 311 bus service between Thornbury and Dursley is to be saved. 

Local MP Steve Webb has launched an urgent campaign for a direct bus route from Yate and the surrounding areas to Southmead Hospital, before Frenchay hospital is downgraded in 2014.

Steve Webb is encouraging anyone who is affected to join the campaign and share their experiences of travel to Southmead.

Well over 100,000 South Gloucestershire residents will see a big cut in their income tax bills this year and next, following a campaign by local MP Steve Webb and the Liberal Democrats.

Thornbury & Yate MP Steve Webb has welcomed today’s announcement by the Deputy Prime Minister of a multi-billion pound investment in the aerospace industry.   This will not only help to secure jobs with major employers such as Airbus and Rolls Royce but also the many thousands of jobs of people who work for companies which supply goods and services through the supply chain.

A Yate-based boxing club has received the backing of local MP Steve Webb for its plans to improve its premises.   The Yate Amateur Boxing Club (ABC) currently meets in a cabin in the car park of the Yate Outdoor Sports Centre but the facilities are in need of considerable improvement.