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Academy Success
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Saturday, 14 August 10 - 06:09 PM (GMT) By Paul Holmes in General |
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Paul Holmes yesterday announced that £13m of local council capital funding previously earmarked for Southampton's Building Schools for Future (BSF) programme would be protected. This money will be combined with the new national national funding that we hope Southampton will receive when the...
Bitterne Park Sixth Form- Letter to Echo.
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Friday, 02 October 09 - 05:46 PM (GMT) By Paul Holmes in General |
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Dear Editor, Following on from the recent articles on the development of a sixth form centre at Bitterne Park I wanted to offer further thoughts on this exciting development. The proposal will support the education plan for the city as the proposed 180 place 16-18 centre will offer a range of voc...
Labour betrays Southampton Colleges
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Wednesday, 26 August 09 - 02:38 PM (GMT) By Paul Holmes in General |
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Labour's decision to pull the plug on funds to rebuild Taunton’s and Itchen College is disgrace.Colleges in Southampton and the rest of Hampshire were promised funds for ambitious rebuilds which would give them the facilities they need to equip young people for the 21st century. At the end ...
State of the Art Sports Facilities at Test Playing Fields
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Wednesday, 26 August 09 - 02:33 PM (GMT) By Paul Holmes in General |
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The Conservative Council is pushing ahead with plans to build state of the art new sports facilities at Test Playing Fields (off Lower Brownhill Road). This will be delivered in partnership with Southampton Solent University and the Football Foundation. The new community facilities will include ...
Future is Bright for Southampton
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Wednesday, 26 August 09 - 02:31 PM (GMT) By Paul Holmes in General |
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This week Conservatives on the City Council took the decision to award a contract for a new street lighting partnership for Southampton.Many of city’s 28,000 streetlights are very old and in a poor state due to years of underinvestment by previous Labour and Lib Dem Council administrations....
Green Light for Newlands Primary School rebuild
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Monday, 03 August 09 - 06:46 PM (GMT) By Paul Holmes in General |
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Newly appointed Cabinet Member for Children's Services, Cllr Paul Holmes has given the go ahead for the long awaited rebuild of Newlands Primary School. £7.5 million has been committed to the new school which should be open by 2013. Paul said; 'Its brilliant that we can assure the staff, pa...
New Role for Local Councillor
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Monday, 03 August 09 - 03:26 PM (GMT) By Paul Holmes in General |
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Cllr Paul Holmes has been appointed to an important new role at Southampton City Council. As Cabinet Member for Children's Services he will be responsible for education in the city. Paul said, ''I am proud to take on the job. Helping to improve all our schools is a top priority for me and I will ...
Adams Morey Parking update
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Monday, 03 August 09 - 03:24 PM (GMT) By Paul Holmes in General |
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Paul Holmes and Jeremy Moulton have taken up residents concerns about Car Parking in Old Redbridge. The Double yellow lines outside of Adams Morey will be removed in early August so that this will free up more space for their staff to park and mean less pressure on the neighbouring roads.
Sedbergh Road Cutway News
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Sunday, 03 May 09 - 05:51 PM (GMT) By Paul Holmes in General |
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Following months of consultation and pressure from local residents, the very successful recent CREW (Crime Reduction and Environment Week) tackled the issue of the very run down and overgrown Cutway in Kendal Avenue and Sedbergh Road. The cutway is used by many school children to get home during ...
Promise Kept- A Historic Council Tax level.
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Saturday, 28 February 09 - 05:53 PM (GMT) By Paul Holmes in General |
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Southampton Conservatives are sticking to an election pledge to keep council tax under the rate of inflaion. This year’s council tax rise will be the lowest in the history of the council at 2.94%. It has been a challenging year for Southampton. We are faced with the backdrop of worst recess...
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