Bristol West MP, Stephen Williams has praised local residents' work to save the Scabious Bee - the area's 'iconic' bee.

Bee-lovers have taken over 761 actions to save bees in Bristol West as part of Friends of the Earth's Bee Cause campaign. Actions include planting bee friendly seeds, signing petitions and building 'bee hotels' to replace lost natural habitat.

Stephen Williams MP is urging communities in Bristol to apply for the new £6m First World War: then and now fund, which the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has launched.

HLF is making at least £1 million available per year until 2019 to provide grants of between £3,000 and £10,000. The money will enable groups across the UK to explore, conserve and share their First World War heritage and deepen their understanding of the impact of the conflict.

Bristol West MP, Stephen Williams, joined campaigners from charity ActionAid this week to call for an end to burning food crops to fuel our cars when 1 in 8 on our planet goes hungry every day.

ActionAid collected thousands of petition signatures from around the UK on symbolic 'grains of wheat', which were combined to create a 'field' of wheat outside the Houses of Parliament, bringing the call direct to the doorstep of Government.

Stephen Williams, MP for Bristol West, has called on local schools to take part in My Money Week (3 to 9 June), giving pupils the chance to learn more about money and personal finance.

Every primary and secondary school in Bristol West is being given the chance to take part for free in My Money Week, which has returned for its fifth year thanks to a new partnership between national charity pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group) and Barclays. My Money Week will improve young people's financial skills, knowledge and confidence through special lessons, activities and debates in schools and other settings across the UK.

A new £2 million scheme has been launched by the Coalition Government to help boost childcare businesses and help women back into work.

From this week, people who want to set up a nursery can apply for grants of up to £500 to help cover things like legal and insurance costs, training, equipment and adaptations to buildings. The scheme is aimed to launch up to 6,000 new childcare businesses across England.

Stephen Williams MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health, has today welcomed a teenager's campaign to stop tobacco companies from hooking impressionable young people.

Liam, from Darlington, has written to the Prime Minister and Health Minister, Jeremy Hunt, to call on them to introduce standardised packaging of cigarettes so that tobacco companies can no longer use advertising to attract the next generation of smokers.

Bristol West MP, Stephen Williams, has pledged his support to Trans Media Watch in their attempts to condemn the continued misrepresentation of transgender people in the media.

At the event, Stephen heard about the unfair portrayal of transgendered people in the press, such as teh case of Lucy Meadows, and gave his support by signing Early Day Motion (EDM) 1256.

Stephen Williams, MP for Bristol West, was on hand at Clifton Cathedral for Friday's launch of The Clifton International Festival of Music. Over the course of the week of 22nd to the 30th of June 2013, the festival will play host to some of the world's most renowned classical acts.

nspired by the fortieth anniversary of the iconic Clifton Cathedral, Festival organisers Richard Jeffrey-Gray (Chairman) and Tom Williams (Artistic Director) have arranged a programme that will combine the talents of musicians of local, national and international reputation. These range from internationally celebrated, The Tallis Scholars (also forty years old this year), and I Fagiolini, to a local schools' musical performance of Karl Jenkins' Requiem. Amongst the many other performances in the Festival, there will be the European Premiere of a John Tavener's Tolstoy's Creed.

Rock the House is a Parliamentary live music and venue competition founded by Mike Weatherley MP. This year the prizes are much bigger and the competition's Patrons range from rock legends Alice Cooper, Mark Hoppus, Ian Gillan to Charlie Simpson, Matt Tuck, Rick Wakeman and Yngwie Malmsteen.

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Thanks to Liberal Democrats in the Coalition Government 1, 375 of the poorest toddlers in the city of Bristol will benefit from 15 hours free childcare a week from this September, an investment of £2, 890 per child and a total funding commitment of £3,973,304.

This is in addition to the £100 million investment in capital spending for additional nursery places announced by Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minster, Nick Clegg, last year.