Category Archives: Bristol Evening Post

Lib Dem IT technofix horror

Posted on March 15, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Newbie Lib Dem finance wizard, the Hampshire businessman and former Tory Mike Popham – who’s been a councillor for less than two years – has granted an interview to the Cancer. And this owner of a software company providing services … Continue reading →

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Twitterfeed test post

Posted on March 9, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Blogger is now on Twitter. Today I found out about a Shirley Marshall interview in today’s Cancer from KRS.

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Gone south?

Posted on March 2, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Urban Spash? More of a dribble according to today’s Cancer. (Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)

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Shirley and the coconuts

Posted on February 28, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Shirley and the Coconuts … Sounds a bit like a band that had a couple of top ten hits with some sharp calypso inflected disco tunes in the early eighties – courtesy of Hopkins, Rogers and Wright, the legendary production … Continue reading →

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Mimosa: "expect arrests imminently"?

Posted on February 25, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Oh dear, what a bad day for the Mimosa Healthcare Group in Bristol. You can be forgiven if you took your eye off the ball today – what with all that underwhelming Babs taking over from Helen bollocks at the … Continue reading →

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From the archives: car parks not kids!

Posted on February 23, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Lest we forget … Here’s Labour leader Helen Holland’s “explicit endorsement in the media” for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’s car parking arrangements over the education of the city’s children. Bristol Evening Post: We’re bowled over by world class ambition Bristol … Continue reading →

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Howzat!! Bristol Labour Party caught taking orders from cricket club toffs and House of Lords lobbyists

Posted on February 21, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Gruesome truth about school places in North Bristol: what you won’t be reading in the Evening Cancer … by lilly manilly Whatever happened to that new school at Ashley Down? They spent enough money on the feasibility studies and … Continue reading →

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It tolls for thee Kathy

Posted on February 19, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Strong rumours have been reverberating around the Blogger’s newswires today that the coroner will be opening an inquest tomorrow into the death of a former resident at Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home last autumn (Blogger passim). The news might come as … Continue reading →

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Hopeless Hammond's merry-go-round

Posted on February 18, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

I see that Labour’s education boss, the congenital idiot Peter Hammond – a Labour Party bearded equal opportunities bore who can’t get out of bed in the morning without first procuring an equalities impact assessment and consulting extensively with a … Continue reading →

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Carboot Circus: "an absurd bubble"

Posted on February 17, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

While the council and the Cancer continue to talk up the new Carboot Circus shopping centre with endless waffle about best shopping centre in the world ever awards to the accompaniment of some highly speculative footfall figures, the economic reality … Continue reading →

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