Category Archives: Ashley

Hot fuzz?

Posted on October 12, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

A reader writes: Residents in the Ashley Down/St Andrews/Montpelier area of Bristol have just received this hilarious letter (see below). The following comments seem relevant: a) This letter was clearly not just sent to my road and I suspect the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashley, Bristol, Bristol West, Local government, Policing, St Pauls | Tagged , | There are 27 comments

Shirley and the coconuts (legal mix)

Posted on June 27, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s been a fairly understandable level of uproar across the city since the city council published then unpublished and then republished its report (pdf) into Lib Dem councillor Shirley Marshall and her notorious ‘coconut’ slur (Blogger passim). The crux of … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashley, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Equalities, Lib Dems, Local government, Politics, Race | Tagged , , | There are 6 comments

VOTE 2009: Spot the difference – Lib Dem "shocked and angered" special

Posted on June 1, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Compare and contrast: ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Jon Rogers <jon.rogers@bristol.gov.uk> Date: Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:26 PM Subject: .Ashley eFOCUS – May/June 2009 To: … Like many people I have spoken to, I am shocked and angered by … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashley, Bristol, Bristol West, Cabot, Elections, Lib Dems, Local Elections 2009, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , | There are 45 comments

City council: crap legal threat of the week

Posted on May 26, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The saga of the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft’s artwork destroyed by Bristol City Council “by mistake” takes a new laughable legal turn. Having now made a very public and PR-friendly apology for the news media‘s benefit, the council has … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashley, Bristol, Bristol West, Environment, Graffiti, Local government, Planning, Politics, Stokes Croft | Tagged , , | There are 18 comments

Election gossip latest

Posted on April 14, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

A couple of snippets just in … Bristol’s Respect Party are likely to be running four candidates in the local elections on June 4. Energetic troublemaker Jerry Hicks will be running again in Lockleaze while the excellently named Prince-Abdulaziz has … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashley, Bristol, Easton, Green Party, Lawrence Hill, Lib Dems, Local Elections 2009, Local government, Lockleaze, Politics, Respect Party | Tagged , , | There are 65 comments

Completely illegal Bristol City Council try-on of the week

Posted on November 30, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Comes, not unsurprisingly, from Heather Tomlinson’s intellectually vacuous education department. Local Campaigners trying to save the extremely good and popular Sefton Park School from congenital school wrecker, Peter Hammond’s factory-style expansion plans have recently resorted to using the Freedom of … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashley, Bristol, Bristol West, CONsultants, Education, FOI, Labour Party, Local government | Tagged , , , | There are 5 comments

In praise of Mr Splashy Pants

Posted on January 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Here’s Splashy Pants We learn all is not well in ‘Save the Whale’ circles. A Greenpeace poll to name one of the humpbacks they tagged and tracked to the Southern ocean where hunting for Minke and Humpback is currently taking … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashley, Environment | Tagged , | There are 6 comments

U-turning and u-turning in the widening mire

Posted on October 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s been an update on the Avon & Somerset site and in The Cancer on the carnival night killing of 35-year-old Somalian, Mohamoud Muse Hassan who was stabbed to death at The Criterion pub in Ashley Road, St Pauls (Blogger … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashley, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Policing, Race, St Pauls | Tagged , | There are 13 comments

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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Billbordering on the ridiculous

Posted on September 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

More news on the unwanted billboards in St Werburghs. It turns out a Bristol City Council report has recommended their removal because of their effect on amenity and safety in the area and the billboard site also now falls within … Continue reading →

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