News review How former Independent and Western Daily Press journalist Chris Brown made his local news website Bristol 24/7 pay through advertising etc; Discrepancies over Mayor Fergusons involvement in refinancing Bristol Ferry Boat Company - Council officers now refusing to answer questions at Scrutiny Committees which Mayor Ferguson also often fails to attend, The Bristol Arena by Temple Meads station is costing £90m at least £10m of which will have to be paid from the council budget but councillors and public still havent been shown the figures; The City Deal and Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is way too secretive, run like a business but spending millions of pounds of public money; £200m Metro Bus project another top down scheme with minimal, if any real public consultation - criticised by transport campaigners a tragic waste of money; clip of Rita Lynch, punk singer songwriter, on the reduction of beds in Bush Residential Care Home, Hengrove, for disabled kids - is the city council disabled bashing as a matter of principle? Residential parking; British deficit up 10% on last year - deficit rising is why we have growth, taxation; EU asking Britain for £1.7bn - positive vision of EU not heard much, immigration undermining wages; Juenker won vote to get a new European Commission starting November - is it relevant? Is it democratic? Sanctions on Russia; Bristol is European Green Capital for 2015 - head of operations sacked due to organisational chaos - Bristol2015.co.uk; Bristol Arena has £10m black hole in funding - parking forgotten, figures not for public view; Bristol Rovers sue Sainsburys for pulling out of Bristol Stadium plan; Fiona Wolfe appropriate for historical child abuse by government employees inquiry? - enormous child abuse scandal at Kincora Boys Home in Northern Ireland is to be excluded from the inquiry, why? Tory Mayor of London Boris Johnson reminds us all that Chairman of BBCs weekly Question Time David Dimbleby was also a member of the elite Bullingdon Club to which he, David Cameron, George Osborne and many more now in power once belonged, Dimbleby says "but Im not running for office", no we cant get rid of him from the BBC; In the US â a modern day Robin Hood robbed bank and gave money to people who lost their homes.
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