Monthly Archives: March 2008

Blogga Shocka!

As one door closes another one opens … The Bristol Blogger is pleased to announce that the ink is now dry on a deal signed earlier today with Bristol United Press, owners of the Evening Post, Western Daily Press and … Continue reading

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From the comments …

Get out writes … I hear that the most serious concern within the leadership of Bristol Labour and Tory Parties right now is not the cycle path at all. By the sound of rumblings in the Council House the uppermost … Continue reading

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Plug.

Oh. And our man wandering around the Council House not doing very much passed the press office earlier and says Bristol City Council are preparing a press release about the path this very day … Ho! Ho! Ho!

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ISiS/Southwest One

That Liddell-Grainger speech in full: Southwest One and IBM – Westminster Hall, 26th March 2008 11 am Mr. Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater) (Con): It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Mr. Jones. I am very grateful for the … Continue reading

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Prefabricated henhouse news

Right then. A big thanks to all our Bristol City Council readers who’ve sent in Jan Ormondroyd’s welcome message. Here it is: Dear Colleague I hope you have had a good Easter break and that despite the weather you had … Continue reading

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Bank holiday special: Bristol film double bill

Bristol in the 1920s: Very rare moving pictures of Bristol (UK) filmed 80 years ago. A world in which old cars, buses, lorries and motorcycles share the roads with trams and a surprising number of horses and carts. A charabanc … Continue reading

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What the hell is this meant to mean?

From Lib Dem, Councillor Emma Bagley’s blog – translations welcome: What became apparent towards the end of this topic was that was going to be no stretch target (aka a performance indicator) under the new local area agreement. No stretch … Continue reading

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Fair cop?

The local press has confined itself to some typically soft reporting of Avon & Somerset Constabulary’s recent announcement that it is formally joining the Southwest One outsourcing initiative. Southwest One is a huge public-private partnership deal involving Somerset County Council … Continue reading

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Party gossip holiday special II

Our man out on the town (again) reports … “I was at a party talking to a woman whose best friend’s flat mate’s sister knows someone who works somewhere not unadjacent to chief Bristol City Council transport officer, Colin Knight. … Continue reading

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Welcome to the meritocracy

Great Hall, Bristol Grammar School Bristol Grammar School – catchy strapline: “rich[ !!!], vibrant and a real community, BSG is full of possibility, large but never impersonal” – is currently trumpeting its latest result in getting 17 of its students … Continue reading

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