Category Archives: Bristol Evening Post

Quote of the week: BANKSY BALLS special

Posted on June 15, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Cancer editor Mike Norton says in today’s paper: I was dragged around [Bristol] museum more times than I care to remember. The building and its artifacts are now part of my psyche. My dad loved the place. This explains a … Continue reading →

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MP "Two Beds" in Habitat bath tidy Scamalot shocker!!!

Posted on May 22, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Another bad day for Bristol politics. We can’t even do the MPs expenses scandal – ‘Scamalot’ – with any class or style. While the rest of the country is getting suitably worked up over whipping, flipping, double dipping and egregious … Continue reading →

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Bank holiday Tesco slag off space filler

Posted on May 4, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

As news filters through that City Chairman Steve Lansdown may be about to generously give us a large Tescos retail shed in exchange for our greenbelt land at Ashton Vale to build his new football stadium on, it might be … Continue reading →

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Red alert! Planning gain games

Posted on April 28, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

More on the Bristol City Stadium saga … This weekend found the Cancer merrily spinning away for City chairman Steve Lansdowne with a generous little page 3 hagiography on his ascent up the Sunday Times Rich List while their ‘star’ … Continue reading →

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"The Angel of Death"

Posted on April 22, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Lib Dem Clifton Thicky duo of Babs “Call me ma’m” Janke and her even more ridiculous Cabinet Member for Care and Neighbourhoods, Bev Knott, have truly excelled themselves with this one. Can it only be a month ago that … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSERGATE: the column of crap

Posted on April 11, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Reading George Ferguson’s ‘By George’ column in today’s Cancer – alas not yet online – at least explains why he chose a career in concreting over public park land rather than comic writing. Southville’s great wit writes about Easter this … Continue reading →

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PLUG: New blog on the block

Posted on April 7, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Hi This mail is to tell you about a new local blog which aims to start a debate about the future of news, current affairs and issues reporting in Bristol. Local newspapers across the country are having problems with declining … Continue reading →

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BANKSY BALLS: the anxiety of influence an' all that

Posted on April 6, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

“It’s mindless vandalism,” thunders the Evening Cancer. A view apparently supported by an odd coalition of Bristol Indymedia readers, the BBC, the local PR industry, the Lib Dems and the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft. Appropriate Media daubing Banksy’s ‘Mild, … Continue reading →

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Joined-up government

Posted on April 4, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Anyone see this in today’s Cancer? Plans to start modernising Bristol’s primary school provision are under threat. Projects in the first phase of the council’s citywide Primary Review are facing pressures because of rising costs and falling income. Kate Campion, … Continue reading →

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Homage

Posted on March 29, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Plans for Evening Cancer editor, Mike Norton, to marry a British Toggenburg goat in a private ceremony this week have come under fire from VEGANS and environmental campaigners. One opponent of Norton’s goat nuptials claims it would be “a disgrace … Continue reading →

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