Category Archives: Hartcliffe

"A new era for the site"?

Posted on August 1, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Was it only two years ago John from Urban Splash was on this blog talking about “a new era” for Hartcliffe’s Imperial Tobbacco factory site? “We are making a massive investment into this area ensuring it will be a success,” … Continue reading →

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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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And the end of another era …

Posted on April 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

by Keren Suchecki This is my last Double Devolution column – I’ll be leaving HWCP in a few weeks time. I was the first employee eight years ago in an empty shop without the luxury of a chair, let alone … Continue reading →

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The life and times of Michael Cocks #4

Posted on January 6, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Former Bristol South MP Michael Cocks, even in the twilight of his long parliamentary career, still manages a small walk-on part in high Tory journalist Peter Oborne’s surprisingly impressive attack on contemporary parliamentary politics, The Triumph of the Political Class. … Continue reading →

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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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Notes for the inner city: #1 drive bys

Posted on October 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Cancer reported on Monday that a house in Fulford Road, Hartcliffe was fired at in a “drive-by” shooting. It went on to say: Up to 100 people were then said to have run out into the street to see … Continue reading →

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BB Roadwatch: "a touch of class"

Posted on October 15, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As promised for Blog Action Day . . . Loudmouth Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary, that privately educated and over-privileged man of the people, has had a crack at campaigners fighting the plans to expand Bristol Airport in The Cancer. “They … Continue reading →

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Housing: Crisis? What Crisis?

Posted on October 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Compare and contrast: Bristol Evening Cancer Friday 5 October 2007 “I’ve got a friend who has three children living in a one-bedroom council flat. She’s been waiting for a new property for months but can only watch as more Somali’s … Continue reading →

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The life and times of Michael Cocks #4

Posted on October 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Keren Suchecki comments: In the early 80s Michael Cocks used to be in the Hartcliffe Labour club every Sunday lunchtime (as was I), where people would queue to speak to him about their problems. I don’t know how successful he … Continue reading →

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The life and times of Michael Cocks #3

Posted on October 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Like all chief whips, Michael Cocks was an inveterate cynic and fixer. In opposition in the early 1980s, Harry Cohen, then an idealistic young MP, had set his heart on speaking in the house even though the whips of all … Continue reading →

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