Category Archives: Bristol

Fw: the Bristol Festival

Posted on November 18, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

New community festival for 2008! A brand new festival is being organised for 2008 by volunteers who feel it’s what the community needs, especially in light of the unfortunate demise of the Bristol Community Festival (at Ashton Court). Built from … Continue reading →

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Black schools

Posted on November 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Blogger’s attention was caught by a report posted on Bristol 2007’s Weblog about a recent brief debate on the issue of black only schools for Bristol. Here’s a part of it: Cllr Peter Hammond [a key member of the … Continue reading →

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Museum of Bristol update

Posted on November 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Predictably the Labour Cabinet nodded through on Thursday the £25m Museum of Bristol project on the site of the Industrial Museum. And just in case any of our elected representatives – not in the cabinet – might have wanted to … Continue reading →

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Whitewash? The new blog on the block

Posted on November 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The latest blog to appear in Bristol is Bristol 2007’s Weblog. This appears to have been set up to look at the legacy left by the city’s controversial Abolition 200 events this year. The city council’s Abolition 200 Steering Group, … Continue reading →

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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 Big Arse: greenwash photo-op watch

Posted on November 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Pictured is an embarrassing clown alongside someone dressed up as Robin Hood. The question that needs to printed on that bit of paper is ‘can Bristol bear this idiot in charge any longer?’ What passes for a leader in this … Continue reading →

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Hammond's homecare plans unravel

Posted on November 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Peter Hammond and the Labour Party’s promise at the last local election was to keep the city’s home care service “in-house”. We might have understood from this there would be no more privatisation of Bristol city council’s home care service … Continue reading →

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An invitation to the shed?

Posted on November 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Sid and Doris Bonkers may soon have to send out that first gilt-edged invitation for a night out in their shed in Sea Mills. Writer of a The Naked Guide To Bristol, Gil Gillespie, who also used to write a … 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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Bristol not a media ball balls

Posted on November 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Exciting news just in from the spiritual home of the laptoperati, Bristol Media. This is the local website that acts as a sort of online support group where badly paid marketing assistants, PR nobodies, wannabe web designers, media studies graduates … Continue reading →

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