First hour: News review: with Windmill Hill Green councillor Deborah Joffe. Green energy - energy efficiency; PMQs Corbyn – planning permission for wind power and fracking – nuclear energy; public transport – Dr Richard Beeching, free public transport, First Bus, air quality, Metrobus; PMQs Tory energy policy a shambles – Hinkley Point Nuclear power station – expensive nuclear waste, diesel generators in Bristol; committees Deborah is on – People Scrutiny and Police and Crime Panel – Sue Mountstevens, the 'old regime' at Avon & Somerset police and Colin Port; threats of violence against local BBC journalist by retired police officers supporting former Chief Constable Colin Port against suspended Chief Constable Nick Gargan, PMQs Caroline Lucas - all schools to be made academies – parents to be removed as governors; will Bristol be forced to have a Metro Mayor which nobody wants and £1bn investment 'bribe' over 30 years – devolution or concentration of power? Cuts to disabled payment PIP – 290,000 people to lose £4,100 a year – while corporations are given handouts – Tories part of disabled charities sacked e.g. Zac Goldsmith, tax relief on pensions, deficit not going down, Osborne achieving a surplus; Bristol Arena in Windmill Hill; Labour equal with Tories in polls.
