Daily Archives: December 16, 2007

Arena petition

Posted on December 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Bristol Rocks website have started a petition over the arena. Sign it here.

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New sweatshop plan for the city's poor

Posted on December 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

After twenty years of failed regeneration wonkery attempting to solve inequality in the city through a bizarre combination of obsessive equal opportunity practice and small-scale community action and six years of Kelly and his culture crowd promising action on inequality … Continue reading →

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SWRDA: You scratch my back . . .

Posted on December 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

That tireless worker in the public interest, Merchant Venturer John Savage – a board member of the SWRDA – told us earlier this week in the Evening Cancer after the cancellation of the arena project: in the end, we are … Continue reading →

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Northern Arc Ltd. update

Posted on December 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

We said on Friday evening that the two Merchant Venturers, John Savage and Colin Skellett, who have seats at the head table of the SWRDA, were currently in talks with Swindon-based GWE to merge their Business West operation with them … Continue reading →

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