Category Archives: Bristol Evening Post

No pressing concern?

Posted on December 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Arena bellyflop found Cancer editor Mike Norton sharpening his crayons yesterday afternoon and attempting to deliver a thunderous editorial on the matter. Here’s a bit of it: So who is going to be called to account for this fiasco? … Continue reading →

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First's fine solution

Posted on December 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

First Bristol has been fined almost £50,000 for failing to run its bus services on time.The company was fined by Philip Brown, Bristol’s deputy traffic commissioner, £150 for each of the 325 vehicles it operates in the city. Bristol Evening … Continue reading →

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Cancer on the case (again)

Posted on December 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Another big shout out to Evening Cancer editor Mike Norton and his super smart newsroom boys. “PAY AS YOU THROW” thundered the front page of our ever so good local newspaper yesterday. “ A “pay-as-you-throw” scheme charging householders £2 per … Continue reading →

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It's childsplay at the Evening Cancer

Posted on November 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

I see today’s Evening Cancer was produced by a group of 11 year olds. It’s definitely an improvement on the efforts of the 8 year olds who normally do it.

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Meet "the new one that you must call the master"

Posted on November 15, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Well, well, well. Who’s this slithering back up the greasy pole into the higher echelons of Bristol’s public life? Those fine and honourable fellows of our local creepy millionaires’ misogynist sect, the Society of Merchant Venturers, have only gone and … Continue reading →

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The Blogger get's it wrong, wrong, wrong

Posted on November 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Not an admission we have to make around here that often you’ll agree and, yes, it’s hard to countenance but The Blogger’s got it wrong. On Friday we said: In another piece of transport news, that no doubt will be … Continue reading →

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Stat Porn: 100,000 Up!

Posted on November 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

On Thursday The Bristol Blogger got their 100,000th hit. This has taken 33 weeks and means that The Blogger is averaging over 3,000 hits per week since it started in March. However the blog is currently getting between 5-6,000 hits … Continue reading →

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Tough at the top?

Posted on November 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Clearly it’s not just Heather Tomlinson feeling the pressure and turning into a raving paranoid loon who’s lost all their bearings. Mike Norton, Bristol United Press’s Group Editor responsible for all their local publications including The Cancer, The Depress and … Continue reading →

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Who'd have ever guessed it?

Posted on November 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol City Council is looking for urgent savings in this year’s budget of up to £2 million. It is overspending on waste services (£1.5m), care for the elderly (£1.5m), taxi services for special needs youngsters (£400,000) and concessionary bus fares … Continue reading →

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Bristol education: even the kids have given up hope

Posted on October 31, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The number of pupils who played truant from Bristol secondary schools last year was almost double the national average. And it has been claimed that 2006-07 could go down as the worst ever school year on record for secondaries in … Continue reading →

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