Monthly Archives: August 2007

"We" wee

Posted on August 23, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

What a surprise. An increase in the number of kids in the city getting five good grades at GCSE from 43% to 47% finds education boss Heather Tomlinson miraculously back from her holiday and talking to The Evening Cancer: “We … Continue reading →

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Planning application of the week

Posted on August 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

This might cause a bit of a fuss… Yankies, KOR Developments Ltd of Tiley House, Hartcliffe Way, have put in a planning application to redevelop the old Esso garage on the Bath Road. The site is situated on the banks … Continue reading →

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North Bristol NHS spin shocker

Posted on August 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Nice to see North Bristol NHS Trust spending taxpayers money on blatant political spin for New Labour. This dossier compiled by the Tories of hospitals at risk of downsizing includes Frenchay Hospital’s A&E Department which, as has been well-publicised, is … Continue reading →

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Jesse and the jews

Posted on August 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Clueless equalities communities bore, Labour Social Services supremo Peter Hammond is at it again. News that Jesse Jackson is visiting the city has got Bristol’s Mr Diversity almost wetting his pants with joy at the thought of someone black, American … Continue reading →

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On the buses

Posted on August 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A letter in Saturday’s Evening Cancer from this new UNITE super-union has a crack at Bristol North West’s Tory candidate Charlotte Leslie. They accuse her of “breathtaking cant and hypocrisy” over her campaign for a better Bristol bus service because … Continue reading →

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Bristol City Council: employee of the month

Posted on August 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

This toy that reveals where anonymous Wikipedia edits originate from is proving very handy indeed. Blogger reader Mapreader draws our attention to the city council employee who’s used their time exceptionally well to improve on the entries of a couple … Continue reading →

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Instant History! (Just add radicals)

Posted on August 20, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The 1831 Bristol riot from Brandon Hill These skateboarders learn fast. Yesterday some of them attended Bristol Radical History Group’s 175th anniversary celebration of the Great Reform Dinner ruck of 1832 on Brandon Hill. Today they’re proclaiming from the pages … Continue reading →

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While the greens gaily gather the ravers riot!!!

Posted on August 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Forget Heathrow. All the action’s in Great Yarmouth… Fifteen people have been arrested after a police station was attacked by a mob of around 100 people who hurled beer and wine bottles at the building.

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Climate Camp: ha, ha, Hari

Posted on August 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

So who’s the one reporter invited by the organisers to Heathrow’s increasingly farcical Camp for Climate Change and given free rein to wander around and do what he likes while other journalists must have a “media savvy” climate camper escort … Continue reading →

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"A window into the soul of policing": Bristol's plod blog joy

Posted on August 18, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It was only a matter of time… The latest addition to the Bristol blogosphere is ‘Police Blog’ by South Bristol’s very own Chief Inspector Andy Bennett. And it looks like the boy might have a gift for poetry (and no … Continue reading →

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