Category Archives: Planning

Something for the end of the weekend

Posted on October 18, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Prizes available for further amusing slogans … And the opportunity to go “viral”. Indeed, even as you read, our crack programming team will be working overnight tonight developing an easy-to-use web-based DIY write yer own slogan ‘n’ print version. Watch … Continue reading →

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Something for the weekend no. 1: a gun to your head …

Posted on October 16, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

I’m sure when this all started any direct link between Tesco and the new stadium was being vigorously denied and rebutted. Now they’re advertising the fact on billboards:

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Are our politicians in danger of having to express a view in the near future?

Posted on October 15, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

This city’s politicians’ habit of speaking in bland, meaningless platitudes on any and every subject while the bureaucrats they handsomely pay are left with a free hand to royally shaft us may be under threat judging by events today. First … Continue reading →

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Ring-a-ring-a-roadsies

Posted on October 6, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Today’s Cancer provided an uncritical platform for editor Mike Norton’s wealthy mates to make their latest announcement about what we are being asked to call the ‘South Bristol Link’. For starters, this is quite possibly the world’s most pathetically inept … Continue reading →

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Did you lie Councillor? Or are you merely an incompetent?

Posted on September 25, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The webcast for the full council meeting of 15 September is now available from the Bristol City Council website here. Using the index you can go to section 4.c Questions from the public where you will find the following: PQ3 … Continue reading →

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The real BCFC pro-forma letter …

Posted on September 24, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Bcfc Supporters Letter by bristol_citizen on Scribd

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EXCLUSIVE LEAKED DOCUMENT!!!! the pro-forma letter that spells the end for the anti-Tesco brigade

Posted on September 22, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Want Tescos? Want a new stadium? Want the World Cup? Send your pro-forma letter objecting to spoilsport Green councillor Charlie Bolton now! Exclusively here on the Bristol Blogger is that letter, crafted to perfection for you by Bristol City FC … Continue reading →

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Resurrected Red Dawn rises?

Posted on September 19, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Actually I very much doubt it … But I was re-reading one of Dawn’s HearFromYourMP alerts – the sterile monthly dirge the Dim Prawn delivers direct to my mailbox – from July, which had this to say about the Tesco … Continue reading →

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Those Ashton Gate Tesco questions in full

Posted on September 16, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Last night a number of people put questions to the Full Council regarding the proposed Tesco at Ashton Gate with specific reference to the piece of land that’s owned by the council. Among the most interesting unanswered questions are what … Continue reading →

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Lib Dems in office: Bishop in power: business as usual at the Council House

Posted on September 13, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Minor uproar has greeted this blog’s revelations that almost a fifth of the land at Ashton Gate pencilled in by Bristol City FC to become a Tesco Extra belongs to Bristol City Council. And even by the extraordinarily low intellectual … Continue reading →

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