Category Archives: Bristol

Redland Green School:auditor's report

The auditors report into the £6m Redland Green School overspend has been published (pdf). James Barlow has done an excellent in-depth analysis on his blog but the meat on bones of this report can be found in section 10 – … Continue reading

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EXCLUSIVE: Bradshaw exposes himself!

… As Sustrans reject fig leaf role More bad news for Labour’s transport boss Mark Bradshaw as his desperate attempts to control the fallout from revelations that he intends to turn the Bristol and Bath Railway Path in to a … Continue reading

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Who's paying for Pigfucker's party then?

Rumour reaches the Blogger that outgoing waste-of-space Chief Exec Pigfucker Gurney is having a leaving party and personal invitations are on the way to the select few of well remunerated brown-nosers and civic dignitaries right now. Strangely the Blogger hasn’t … Continue reading

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Railway path spinwatch

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

“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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BRT: "A gigantic pile of steaming dung"

By Bluebaldee (Originally posted as a comment) The link to the BRT Project Board documents is very useful and uncovers a number of interesting facts about BRT. The overarching fact that I’ve discovered is that BRT in general is actually … Continue reading

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A public service post on behalf of the Bristol Conservative Party

Confusion, consternation and plain anger tonight across the leafy suburbs of Bristol as the news comes in that the Bristol and South Gloucestershire Conservative Association’s events listing website is down. Fear not. As part of the Bristol Blogger’s political inclusion … Continue reading

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Is the News Bunny reversing the ferret?

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: sits vac!

It’s time for people to stop talking and start working if they want to save the railway path. The campaign is currently looking for someone to design a logo and produce other graphics for their website. If you’ve got the … Continue reading

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Public service for private gain

Besides the various corporate interests that have their feet firmly under the table of the West of England Partnership’s BRT Project Board – the group continuing to do the work that will destroy the railway path – there’s also various … Continue reading

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