Category Archives: Bristol

Only in South Bristol . . .

Posted on November 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A half-dressed Denise Van Outen who was not in Hartcliffe today The new Morrison’s store at Hartcliffe – launched today in a hail of crazed government regeneration hyperbole that was enough to make you think they’d rebuilt the fucking Pompidou … Continue reading →

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Will our new museum be Bristol's very own chamber of financial horrors?

Posted on November 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Blimey. It looks like Bristol’s Tories have finally woken up and decided to start acting like an opposition after six months of pointless fawning over Labour’s Bees-Holland-Hammond council leadership triumvirate of proven incompetents. They even appear to have bothered to … Continue reading →

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New additions

Posted on November 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A couple of new additions to the blogroll. _saturnine who provided the recent Philip Street graffiti photos also has a blog, mainly of photos, here. Bristol Anarchist Black Cross, campaigning for prison reform have also recently started a blog. Their … Continue reading →

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Full of Eastern promise?

Posted on November 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol East MPs old and new in the news this week. The former MP until 2005, Jean Corston, the New labour ultra-Blairite ultra-loyalist whose ruthless focus on her Westminster career rather than her constituents saw her rise to be Chair … Continue reading →

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Stat Porn: 100,000 Up!

Posted on November 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

On Thursday The Bristol Blogger got their 100,000th hit. This has taken 33 weeks and means that The Blogger is averaging over 3,000 hits per week since it started in March. However the blog is currently getting between 5-6,000 hits … Continue reading →

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Transport round-up

Posted on November 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Minister of State for being an unpalatable shade of orange, Peter Vain, was in town yesterday making one of his stupid, posh foghorn-voiced announcements. And what tremendous news he brings! Yet another Labour government subsidy, no less, for Bristol’s most … Continue reading →

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Educashion today

Posted on November 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

On one of the more obscure outposts of the council’s website you can find details about something called ‘Buggybuddies’, publicly funded keep fit sessions for yummy mummies. If you really feel the need to look it up yourself it can … Continue reading →

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Tough at the top?

Posted on November 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Clearly it’s not just Heather Tomlinson feeling the pressure and turning into a raving paranoid loon who’s lost all their bearings. Mike Norton, Bristol United Press’s Group Editor responsible for all their local publications including The Cancer, The Depress and … Continue reading →

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Direktive from ze Heatherbunker

Posted on November 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A reader directs The Blogger to this term’s edition of Herr Direktor Tomlinson’s glossy newsletter(PDF) for school governors as we “may want to read the series of crap excuses she’s concocted”! The reader continues: No great major spelling mistakes immediately … Continue reading →

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Our trough: their snouts

Posted on November 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Hurrah! As part of the national Crimestoppers Conference taking place in Bristol last week on the theme of ‘Engaging Hard-To-Reach Communities’, West Country Crimestoppers held a sumptuous black tie reception on board the SS Great Britain “to thank local and … Continue reading →

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