Category Archives: Bristol

Partnership news

Posted on February 10, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

We know only too well that Bristol City Council’s pair of jargon obsessed New Labour leadership dronebots, Bum Disease Ormondroyd and Helen Holland, are very keen on this whole ‘partnership working’ malarkey. Martin Whitelock even reports on this blog that … Continue reading →

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MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE – Full Council Meeting, 10th Feb 2009

Posted on February 10, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

By Martin Whitelock The inevitable happened: – LibDems will wait until the June election in the likelihood of being voted in by the electorate as they are now the majority party in Bristol. – Conservatives got severely reprimanded by LibDem … Continue reading →

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Mimosa meltdown?

Posted on February 6, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Mimosa Healthcare Group who run Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home have now twice been invited by the Evening Cancer to comment on the major allegations of abuse going on in their home. Here’s the organisation’s formal responses so far: Mimosa … Continue reading →

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Kingsmead Lodge: the allegations begin …

Posted on February 4, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Bit of a hoo-ha down at the Counts Louse this afternoon, I’m told, over this public forum statement to the Health Scrutiny Commission about the Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home abuse scandal (Blogger passim). It seems that our dearest of dear … Continue reading →

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Public money: private abuse

Posted on February 3, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

You may have read in the Evening Cancer on Friday that police are investigating allegations of abuse at Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home in Shire. This private residential care home, specialising in dementia, is run by a Nottingham-based company, Mimosa Healthcare … Continue reading →

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Jew watch

Posted on January 30, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

It was only a matter of time … Forget ZIONISTS! That’s so last week. The first story has now appeared on Bristol Indymedia the sole point of which seems to be to identify that someone is up to no good … Continue reading →

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What rough beast?

Posted on January 25, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Our dear old friend, Bristol’s high-profile Muslim spokesman and ‘community leader’ Farooq Siddique, has popped up in the comments to explain why the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto have nothing to do with The Holocaust. It’s semantics: The term holocaust … Continue reading →

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Is the council about to dump our recycling abroad?

Posted on January 24, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Fascinating comment in the minutes of the city council’s Resources Scrutiny Commission of 15 January. Councillors querying officers about what would happen to household recycling waste that could not be sold, as seems increasingly likely, were told: recycled material that … Continue reading →

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New cure for Cancer

Posted on January 22, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

What you won’t be reading in tomorrow’s Cancer … News drifts in from the Lubianka that another round of cuts will start being implemented at the troubled media empire tomorrow. With advertising revenues crashing and circulation in freefall already at … Continue reading →

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20 MPH zones don't work!

Posted on January 21, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Green end of the Bristol blogosphere’s been getting rather excited about 20mph zones for the majority of residential streets in Bristol. Not everyone’s convinced … A guest post by 2nd Anonymous 20 MPH zones haven’t made any difference for … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Bristol, Bristol East, Cycling Demonstration City, Environment, Green Party, Local government, Politics, Southville | Tagged , | There are 28 comments