Category Archives: Bristol Evening Post

Headline news

Posted on February 23, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristle KRS was rather taken with a headline in Thursday’s Evening Cancer: ACKER BILK BAULKS AT SILAGE BAG EYESORE Which is pretty good stuff. But it’s generally been a good week for Cancer headlines. Here at the Blogger we were … Continue reading →

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Corporate backscratch (with added greenwash)

Posted on February 20, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Well, well, well … Who’s this sponsoring the Evening Cancer Business Awards 2008 then? Why knock me down with 10,000 tons of high strength concrete if it isn’t Atkins, the multinational civil engineering outfit (Blogger passim) who’ve recently received a … Continue reading →

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Railway path spinwatch

Posted on February 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Labour transport boss Bradshaw and his press spokeswoman Kate Hartas – who seems to flit from working for the city council to the West of England Partnership and back again on a regular basis without ever troubling the truth a … Continue reading →

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Waffle watch

Posted on February 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

“We are all constantly striving to achieve clarity in all communications.” Helen Holland, Bristol Evening Post, 16 February 2008 By reviewing the Corporate Plan at the same time as the review of the Bristol Partnership’s Sustainable Community Strategy (please see … Continue reading →

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Is the News Bunny reversing the ferret?

Posted on February 14, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Here’s the latest example of the kind of leadership found at the top of our city’s most influential institutions these days … You might remember that the Evening Cancer, the newspaper Mike “News Bunny” Norton is supposed to be in … Continue reading →

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Railway path round-up

Posted on February 12, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s a new summary of events so far at Conserve England, featuring many of the best of people’s comments from here and the BBC among others. Yesterday’s Evening Cancer, meanwhile, might already have provided us with the quote of the … Continue reading →

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A bad week for …

Posted on February 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Editing a provincial newspaper has never been the most intellectually rigorous of tasks. Traditionally the ability to create an aggressively macho management culture by bullying the work experience girl; grooming a couple of contacts in the local Rotary Club; having … Continue reading →

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Fancy that!

Posted on January 31, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol City Council has admitted misleading parents over the catchment area for its flagship secondary school at Redland Green. Scores of children living within the “area of first priority” did not get in to the comprehensive last September because of … Continue reading →

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CONsultant's healthy profit

Posted on January 31, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The Cancer revealed yesterday that Frenchay and Southmead Hospitals, both part of the cash-strapped North Bristol NHS Trust (NBHT), are spending just 50p per person on their less-than-appetising hospital meals. This news comes just as the hospital trust has been … Continue reading →

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Muslim Balls

Posted on January 30, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks News Bunny Norton, the Evening Cancer editor, has decided to grab himself a slice of the diversity action by employing a Muslim columnist. Farooq Siddique of the the publicly funded Bristol Muslim Cultural Society – who no doubt … Continue reading →

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