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Local MP Steve Webb has launched a campaign to save the threatened Citizen’s Advice Bureau in Thornbury. 

Local primary and secondary schools are to receive extra help from April 2013 under the Government’s ‘pupil premium’ scheme.  

A local MP has hit the national headlines with his plans to re-shape the nation’s pension system, and is now asking local people for their feedback.  

Thornbury & Yate MP Steve Webb has welcomed today’s announcement of a £3.4 million grant from the Government for South Gloucestershire Council as part of the ‘new homes bonus’ scheme.  

Residents of Hawkesbury Upton opened their doors on a frosty Saturday morning this month to find a Government minister on their doorsteps, eager to hear their views.  

Local MP Steve Webb, who has campaigned for many years for improved broadband speeds for the local community, has called on South Gloucestershire Council and BT to step up the pace of broadband improvements in the local area.  The MP welcomed this week’s announcement of a contract between the Council and BT, part-funded by the Government, to upgrade the area’s broadband network, but said that progress now needed to be speeded up.   Commenting, Steve Webb said:

Thornbury & Yate MP Steve Webb has welcomed this week’s vote in Parliament to leave the boundaries for Westminster constituencies unchanged at the 2015 General Election.  

Thornbury & Yate MP Steve Webb has welcomed news that unemployment in the local area is at its lowest level for a year.  

The spell of cold weather in the West has this week triggered special government payments for thousands of pensioners and disabled people in Thornbury & Yate constituency.

Liberal Democrats from Wales and the West of England have gathered in Yate to discuss the latest proposals for a Severn Barrage.   The group, which included local MP Steve Webb and South Glos. Lib Dem leader Cllr Ruth Davis, met at Poole Court to hear expert evidence on the best ways to harness the tidal power of the River Severn.