News review: Local city magazine â publicity for Mayor Ferguson â cost £34,000; what powers do councillors have over Mayor; Mayoral system pros and cons; Our City Bristol City Council PR magazine Wessex Water PR magazine â OFWAT, phenomenal water charges, competition, private versus public services, Welsh Water; clip of John Rediford, NUT Secretary for North Somerset, discussing Academy Schools â are they better or not? Queens Speech â devolution of powers to cities with Metro Mayors; PMQs Diane Abbot MP â devolution to London; Gerrymandering of constituency boundaries on basis of existing register of voters; discouraging poor people from registering to vote; making it more difficult to register to vote; in Bristol West and across the country less people registered to vote than in the 2010 election even though we know the population has increased; US practice of voter suppression now taking place in Bristol Mayor Ferguson reconsiders Avonmouth and Portbury Docks freehold; PMQs Harriet Harman â right to buy for housing association tenants â housing benefit up, child benefit, £10.5bn cuts to welfare, property bubble; PMQs Rachel Maskell â housing association right to buy, bedroom tax; Osbornes £3bn of cuts â sooner than thought.
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