Monthly Archives: September 2007

EXCLUSIVE?

Posted on September 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Here’s a story from the front page of today’s Cancer – “The campaigning newspaper of the year” – marked in large red letters as an EXCLUSIVE: The next chief executive of Bristol City Council will be paid about £180,000 a … Continue reading →

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Redland Green as expensive as Clifton College shocker!!!

Posted on September 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Evening Cancer yesterday reported Redland estate agents’ claims that house prices in the catchment area of Redland Green School have risen by up to 15%. This means a house in the catchment area once costing £500,000 would now cost … Continue reading →

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Litigious Russian oligarch alert!

Posted on September 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who’s trying to buy Arsenal Football Club, is currently using London lawyers Schillngs to prevent bloggers revealing unsavoury facts about his behaviour and background. Bloggers who’ve been pulled off the web over the last 24 hours include … Continue reading →

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The masterplanners

Posted on September 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Thanks to Education boss, Heather Tomlinson, and her idiot boss, Pigfucker Gurney, the city is now spending around £2m a year on the strategic management of its schools and education. The result? Utter confusion. The latest announcement from The Cancer … Continue reading →

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“Fifteen minutes south” (press call remix)

Posted on September 20, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Must be Urban Splash’s press call week for their ‘Lake Shore’ development in Hartcliffe (Blogger passim). Wednesday saw Venue – still pluckily keeping that editorial fashionably offline – rather unconvincingly claiming that the flats, priced between £100k and £200k, could … Continue reading →

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Dead strange

Posted on September 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Avon & Somerset’s story of the murder on carnival night in St Pauls isn’t adding up. It’s been widely reported now that a 35-year-old local Somalian man, Mohamoud Muse Hassan, was stabbed to death in the early hours of Sunday … Continue reading →

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Recycling balls

Posted on September 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Well what a day of utter wankery this has been. Here at Blogger HQ we had a table to get rid of and we immediately thought of our old mate Vowlsie and his recycling mantras – REDUCE: REUSE: RECYCLE. Let’s … Continue reading →

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Working classes not racist shocker!!!

Posted on September 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

by Keren Suchecki I get really fed up with the sneering attitude of ‘serious’ media commentators over Big Brother every year. Low brow it may be, harbinger of the apocalypse it is not. You’ve got to admire this programme’s honesty … Continue reading →

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The Waste-of-space Land

Posted on September 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A modernist poem by T B Blogger SEPTEMBER is the cruellest month, forcing Resignations out of hopeless bureaucrats, mixing Incompetence and wealth, stirring Angry cries with crude anger. Winter kept us hoping, covering The city in wishful thinking, feeding Us … Continue reading →

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Socialism: Bristol Labour style

Posted on September 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

John Bees, Labour’s executive member for Central Services, who basically deals with the council’s finances, is supposed to have a background in trade unionism at Avonmouth docks. You’d never know judging by his comments on the £6m – over 20% … Continue reading →

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