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Latest News
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Article: Nov 15, 2018Two public events are being held in November about plans for a new roundabout on the A40 northern bypass.The Innsworth Gateway Project has been proposed to facilitate the houses that will be built in Innsworth.The scheme will provide an upgrade to the Longford roundabout, which will increase its capacity to accommodate predicted future traffic flows and assist in relieving existing congestion.
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Article: Nov 15, 2018Progress has been made on the scheme to improve the Metz Way junction in Gloucester.Highways crews will be resurfacing overnight the Eastern Avenue junction with Metz Way between November 19 and 30.The A38 Eastern Avenue and the A4302 Metz Way will have partial closures overnight from 8pm to 7am.The county council said the resurfacing work will be done in phases with diversion routes in place and where possible access will be maintained.
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Article: Nov 9, 2018The Liberal Democrats are developing a set of radical policies to reverse the Conservatives' Vanishing Council and kick-start the regeneration of Gloucester.
Underpinning this will be the pledge to relocate the city council offices from the Docks to the King's Quarter.
They also want to see a new civil justice centre built there as part of the project.
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Article: Nov 5, 2018The majority of voters in Gloucester now support the demand for the people to be given the final say on the outcome of the Brexit negotiations, according to a new poll.
Respected pollsters YouGov said 54% of respondents in Gloucester now want their say on the deal Prime Minister Theresa May reaches with the European Union.
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Article: Oct 30, 2018
The Liberal Democrats are calling for a new People's Budget to heal the divided country - as it becomes clear there will not be a "Brexit dividend".
Under the party's proposals there would be a three-step Budget plan, which involves stopping Brexit, fairer taxes and funding public services.
Chancellor Philip Hammond may have claimed that "the era of austerity is coming to an end" but austerity cannot be ended without difficult decisions involving an increase in taxation, according to Gloucester Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate Dr Rebecca Trimnell.