Bradley Stoke Town Councillors visited Westminster on Wednesday to step up the campaign for faster broadband connections in the Town. Town Mayor Cllr Ben Walker and Councillors John Ashe, Brian Hopkinson, Robert Jones and Sarah Pomfret attended a meeting at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport with Communications Minister Ed Vaizey MP. The meeting, which was organised by newly
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MP joins the fight for faster broadband in Bradley Stoke
Bradley Stoke’s newly-elected Conservative MP Jack Lopresti has vowed to make the fight to secure faster, more reliable, broadband coverage across his constituency one of his top priorities. The pledge came after Mr Lopresti organised a meeting with the new Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey MP, to highlight the long-standing issues with broadband connections in the Bradley Stoke area. As a
Continue readingNew MP makes maiden speech in The Commons
Jack Lopresti, recently elected Member of Parliament for the new constituency of Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS), has made his maiden speech in the House of Commons. Mr Lopresti’s big moment came during a debate on the Strategic Defence and Security Review on Monday (21st June), in which he urged the government to do more for the welfare of soldiers
Continue readingTelegraph says new MP is BSCS old boy
A profile of Bradley Stoke’s new MP Jack Lopresti in The Daily Telegraph claims that the former mortgage broker received his “state education” at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS). Somehow I don’t think that’s correct. By my calculation, Mr Lopresti, born in 1969, would have attended secondary school in the 1980s. BSCS opened in September 2005.
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