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£10m World Cup cost shocker!5 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 2 weeks ago: Let’s briefly cast our minds back to those heady bright days of summer. Especially those July … more →

Tags: Lib Dems, Bristol, Local Government, Politics, World Cup 2018, Jan Ormondroyd, Simon Cook, Stephen Wray, Richard Caborn

"Six in bits"? Greenbelt grab nodded through with barely a wimper63 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 3 weeks ago: Bristol City Football Club are to get a new stadium on the city’s greenbelt at Ashton Vale aft … more →

Tags: Lib Dems, Bristol, Developments, Local Government, Transport, Politics, Environment, Bristol South, Planning

Local media talks otter load-a-bollocks to help wealthy mates 5 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 3 weeks ago: This was a comment posted on Saturday’s ‘Mixed reaction to council backing for new Brist … more →

Tags: Ashton Vale, Bristol, Bristol Evening post, Bristol South, Developments, Environment, Journalism, media, Planning

"Magic money"8 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 4 weeks ago: Some more from this stadium planning report (pdf): Let’s have a look at page 64 then, which is … more →

Tags: Ashton Vale, Bristol, Bristol South, Developments, Local Government, Planning, Politics, Southville, World Cup 2018

Stadium planning report: 'minded to approve' joy29 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 1 month ago: I think there is enough in this report to keep a small army of bloggers happy Tony D Indeed. So let … more →

Tags: Bristol, Developments, Southville, Local Government, Politics, Environment, Bristol South, Planning, Ashton Vale

Something for the end of the weekend13 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 1 month ago: Prizes available for further amusing slogans … And the opportunity to go “viral”. … more →

Tags: Bristol, Developments, Bedminster, Local Government, Politics, Bristol South, Planning, World Cup 2018, Tesco

Something for the weekend no. 2: sponsorship news

thebristolblogger wrote 1 month ago: Are times really that tough down at the Counts Louse? Or have the Lib Dems found a new way to fill t … more →

Tags: Bristol, media, Bristol Evening post, Local Government, Politics, Privatisation, IT, World Cup 2018, First Group

Ring-a-ring-a-roadsies164 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 1 month ago: Today’s Cancer provided an uncritical platform for editor Mike Norton’s wealthy mates to … more →

Tags: Bristol, Developments, Bristol Evening post, Local Government, Transport, Politics, Environment, wesp, Economy

Lib Dems in office: Bishop in power: business as usual at the Council House35 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 2 months ago: Minor uproar has greeted this blog’s revelations that almost a fifth of the land at Ashton Gat … more →

Tags: Lib Dems, Bristol, Blogging, Developments, Local Government, Politics, Environment, Bristol South, Planning

Tesco Ashton Gate: the land is ours!8 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 2 months ago: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Looks like the cover’s blown on the Lib Dems’ claim that the Bri … more →

Tags: Lib Dems, Bristol, Developments, Southville, Local Government, Politics, housing, Environment, Bristol South

Bristotalian of the week7 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 3 months ago: Step forward Green Bristol Blogger, Chris Hutt … Despite the red trousered public school twit … more →

Tags: Bristol, Blogging, Developments, Harbourside, Bristol Evening post, Local Government, Bristolian of the week, Politics, Culture

Give us a C! Give us an O! Give us an N! Give us a dodgy ginger minger planning boss!23 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 3 months ago: Put it all together and what’ve we got? CONsultation … Oh look it’s Friday, must b … more →

Tags: Bristol, Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Bristol East, Consultants, Developments, Easton, Environment, housing, Lib Dems

World Cup footBALLS: part one - business case?17 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 4 months ago: By chief sports writer, Sell Outter Has the Evening Cancer realised it might have made a mistake bel … more →

Tags: Bristol, Bristol Evening post, Local Government, Politics, World Cup 2018, Steve Lansdown, Bristol City FC, Stephen Wray, Euro 96

RED TROUSERGATE: land still not sold, another bloody CONsultation in the offing ...4 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 5 months ago: The Red Trousergate saga continues … David Bishop’s dodgy deal with George Ferguson last … more →

Tags: Lib Dems, Bristol, Developments, Easton, Local Government, Politics, Consultants, Environment, Bristol East

World Cup footBALLS6 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 5 months ago: It’s really nice that Tory Councillor Peter Abraham of Stoke Bishop is such an enthusiastic ch … more →

Tags: Bristol, Developments, Conservatives, Southville, The Downs, Local Government, Politics, Bristol South, Planning

CONsultation of the week: Ladies and gentleman Tescos and Bristol City FC are floating in space3 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 5 months ago: Here’s a sample of the Bristol City FC/Tesco CONsultation that took place at Ashton Gate this … more →

Tags: Bristol, Developments, Southville, Local Government, Politics, Consultants, Environment, Bristol South, Planning

It's Red Trousers wot won it!3 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 5 months ago: Confirmation – as if we really needed it – that Red Trousered architect, George Ferguson … more →

Tags: Lib Dems, Bristol, Southville, Local Government, Politics, Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Planning, Local Elections 2009, George Ferguson

The corruption of the Froom1 comment

thebristolblogger wrote 5 months ago: The corruption of the Froom. The Man in the Moon, (a radical pamphletist) illuminates a web of corru … more →

Tags: Bristol, Local Government, activism, Politics, Culture, twitter, The corruption of the Froom

Outsourcing news2 comments

thebristolblogger wrote 6 months ago: Was it just last week that reader Dona Qixota told us: So what’s wrong with the Council’s communicat … more →

Tags: Blogging, Bristol, Journalism, Local Government, media, Politics, Brandon Hill Communications, Jones the News, Safer Bristol Partnership


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