Gloucestershire Conservatives have announced their spending plans for 2017.

And in a controversial move they announced that they will be cutting the public mental health budget by a massive 30%.

Today's Autumn Statement by the Chancellor Philip Hammond includes no extra cash for local NHS trusts facing spiraling deficits and looming cuts to local services. 

Armed Forces veterans are being encouraged to apply for one of the new council homes being built at the former commercial site on Swindon Road.

• County NHS faces £24 million black hole as most NHS Trusts go into the red
• Healthwatch Gloucestershire highlights 'long delays' and poor support for mental health
• Lib Dems lead campaign to protect services as Tory MP urged to break silence on Cheltenham A&E

Local residents are being invited by Liberal Democrat run Cheltenham Borough Council to choose their preferred option for future waste and recycling collections

Cheltenham Borough Council has launched a consultation about recycling in our town and they want to know what you think.

Martin Horwood has condemned the Conservative government's plans for local pharmacies.

LIB Dems in Gloucestershire have reacted with dismay to news that Tory councillors have not asked the government for more cash to fix the county's roads.

Figures uncovered today by the Liberal Democrats have shown that ambulance services are at breaking point due to chronic under-funding, with a 20% increase in serious incidents involving ambulance crews over the last two years.

The Boundary Commission for England has today proposed that Springbank ward in the west of Cheltenham should join rural villages like Stanton, Twyning and Boddington in the Tewkesbury parliamentary constituency.