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AIRPORT BACKLASH

MORE than 1,000 people have lodged objections to Bristol Airport’s latest expansion plans. The airport wants to facilitate 100,000 flights a year serving 15 million passengers, and to fly to further destinations like America and the Middle East. The...

WOMAN JAILED FOR CAUSING DEATH OF TAKE THAT FAN

AWOMAN has been jailed after she was found guilty of causing the death of a woman walking to a Take That concert in Bristol two years ago. Fiona Hodge was found guilty of causing death by careless driving back in April, and has now been sentenced at...

TEEN CLAIMED ARIA’S DEATH WAS A ‘PLAYFIGHT’ GONE WRONG

A TEENAGE boy had less than three and a half hours’ sleep the night before he stabbed a nine-year-old girl to death, a court heard. The now 16-year-old – described as a “heavy phone user” – stabbed Aria Thorpe once in the chest at a house in Lime...

GALLERIES REBUILD STALLS

MORE than 5,000 people made the most of this weekend’s return to summery weather at the Bristol Craft Beer Festival. Drinkers were spoilt for choice with 300 beers made by 50 breweries – ranging from local favourites such as Bristol Beer Factory and...

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MAN JAILED FOR SEXUALLY ABUSING GIRLS

ARAPIST and child abuser, who sexually assaulted a five-year-old child, has been handed a lengthy prison sentence. Robert Caradain, previously known as Robert Gallop, pleaded guilty to seven counts of gross indecency with a girl under 14 and two...

The joy of swimming

AFORMER elite swimmer who says she was “abused and bullied” by her coach as a teenager has launched an app to help other people “find the high” in swimming. Rebecca Wetten, who is now 33 and moved to Bristol three years ago, began swimming...

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Enjoy the perfect picnic this summer and win one of 15 luxury food hampers worth around £200 each. Picnic season is well and truly here and we’ve teamed up with Cartwright & Butler, purveyors of teatime treats, to offer a quintessential British hamper...

Housing Council clears the way for co-living developments

NEW rules allowing developers to build tiny homes smaller than two parking spaces have been approved by councillors. They defended the controversial new co-living developments which can “offer a better quality of life than your typical HMO” in which...

RESTAURANT OWNERS CHASE AND CATCH SUSPECT AFTER BREAK-IN

THE owners of a restaurant have told of the dramatic moment they chased and caught a man who they believe broke in and stole cash from the till. The team behind Plantuguese in Stokes Croft shared images of the smashed window in the toilets, as well as...

LANDLORD MUST PAY £17,500 FOR FAILING TO FIX RISKS

AFILTON landlord has been ordered to pay £17,500 for failing to improve an unsafe rental property that posed serious hazards, including the risk of structural collapse. South Gloucestershire Council served the landlord with a statutory Improvement...

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Enjoy £5 off when you spend £25 in-store this summer - helping you feel your best all season long. Whether you’re preparing for holidays or simply making the most of summer, discover wellness favourites across energy, skincare, SPF and gut health to...

WOMAN GUILTY OVER FATAL XL BULLY ATTACK

ALAWRENCE Weston woman has admitted being in charge of a dangerously out-of-control XL bully dog when it killed a teenager. Kelcie Reed, 24, pleaded guilty to being in charge of a dog dangerously out-of-control, causing injury resulting in death. The...

FRESH ROW OVER BUS FRANCHISE CAMPAIGN

CAMPAIGNERS calling for bus services in Bristol and the West of England to be brought back under public control say those in charge of the region are keeping a report into the idea out of the public domain. Calls for the ‘franchising’ of the West of...

‘MY VOICE WAS CLONED SECRETLY AND SOLD ONLINE’

ABRISTOL woman who was the voice of GWR trains has told the Post of her devastation after discovering that her voice had been cloned using AI and was for sale on a California-based generative artificial intelligence site. Faye Dicker, who has worked...

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PUB BOSS TELLS OF FEAR AND CONFUSION AT DOUBLE DEATH EXPLOSION

THE manager of a Bristol Harvester pub where dozens of people were evacuated after a fatal blast says her main priority amid the chaos was to make sure everybody was calm and safe. Helen Bull has described the scene in the wake of the devastating...

TWO DEAD AS BLAST ROCKS HOME IN QUIET STREET

TWO people have died in an explosion in a residential area of Bristol with police declaring a “major incident”. Avon and Somerset Police’s Superintendent Matt Ebbs, speaking yesterday afternoon, said: “At about 6.17am we received a call to attend a...

TAKE-OFF FOR ‘HIPSTER’ PLANE RAVES

HOUSING Secretary Steve Reed promised a “new era” for Bristol’s renters when he visited the city yesterday to announce new rules to protect tenants. Mr Reed discussed the changes at length while on a visit to Shelter’s South West headquarters in...

Serious side to wacky fundraiser Last call to take off at Birdman

IT brought 10,000 people to the Harbourside to watch one of Bristol’s wackiest events of 2025, but the Bristol Birdman has a more serious side than just people in funny costumes failing to fly across the water. The Birdman – which the Post revealed...

TRADERS ‘DON’T WANT ROAD BLOCKS’

PROTESTERS have successfully blocked contractors from relocating a controversial bus gate in East Bristol for a second time in recent weeks. Around 14 local residents gathered on Avonvale Road to prevent crews from installing the new traffic measure...

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NORRIS AGAIN REJECTS CALLS TO RESIGN

AWEST of England MP who has not attended parliament for a year has again rejected calls for him to resign, telling a man who got thousands to sign a petition about him that they would ‘have to agree to disagree’ on him continuing to be an MP. In the...

THE SKY’S NO LIMIT

COUNCILLORS were warned they were rebuilding the hideous Tollgate House 1970s tower block at the gateway to Bristol as they approved a 28-storey student building next to the entrance to Cabot Circus car park. The city council’s planning committee...

BROADWALK PLANS GIVEN THE GO-AHEAD

REVISED plans have been approved for demolishing a shopping centre in South Bristol and building more than 500 new homes. Developers now have planning permission to knock down the Broadwalk Shopping Centre on the Wells Road in Knowle and build the...

BARBER CELEBRATES FORTY YEARS IN BUSINESS

A BRISTOL barber is celebrating four decades in the business – and has no plans to hang up his scissors any time soon. Giacomo Licata has been cutting hair on Filton Avenue since he was 20 years old. He recently celebrated his 60th birthday and works...

FORMER OFFICER JAILED AFTER SHARING CHILD ABUSE IMAGES

A FORMER Bristol policeman who doctored private family photos of a female colleague to make her look naked and distributed them to online perverts, has been jailed. PC Michael Elmer was a response officer who had worked with the victim, who said she...

TEENS HUNTED CYCLIST ‘LIKE A PACK’

FOUR teenagers who deliberately ran over a young cyclist in a stolen Mini leaving him with a bleed on the brain have been jailed for more than 20 years. A judge said the four teenagers were ‘hunting as a pack’ and had run over two other people earlier...

COUNCIL IS GRANTED POWER TO EVICT VAN DWELLERS

BRISTOL City Council (BCC) can begin forcibly evicting vans from roads around the Downs, a court has ruled. The authority was granted a possession order, giving it powers to remove so-called van dwellers from roads around the north Bristol parkland,...

DRIVER ‘CANNOT RECALL’ MOMENTS BEFORE FATAL CRASH

AWOMAN accused of causing the death of a Take That fan by careless driving fought back tears as she recounted what happened near the concert at Ashton Gate Stadium almost two years ago. Fiona Hodge sobbed as she told the jury she and her two friends...

STUDENT CHARGED WITH MURDER OF HOUSEMATE

A UNIVERSITY student has been charged with the murder of his housemate – after a body was discovered in a garden in Filton. Emergency services were called to the rear of the property where both men lived in a house share in Cleve Road in the early...

HORROR CRASH LEFT TAKE THAT FAN DEAD

AWOMAN has denied causing the death of a Take That fan on her way to a concert in Bristol two years ago, as a trial begins at Bristol Crown Court. A jury has heard that Fiona Hodge admits driving the car that hit Donna Crossman on Brunel Way, as she...

BODY IN GARDEN: MURDER PROBE ARREST

AMAN has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of a man in north Bristol last week. The man, who has not yet been named but is in his 20s, was arrested at the weekend in connection with the discovery of a man’s body in the...

MURDER PROBE AFTER BODY FOUND IN GARDEN

AHIGH-PROFILE murder investigation will continue into the weekend following the discovery of a man’s body in Filton. The victim, who was in his 20s, was found with fatal injuries at the back of a garden near a path behind houses on Cleve Road in the...

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IT’S the world’s greatest steeplechase, drawing a huge global audience with an estimated 600 million people watching worldwide. And the crowds will be at Aintree again this weekend for the 178th Grand National. Nick Rockett, a 33-1 shot, galloped to...

DRUNKEN MAN ON PLANE JAILED OVER ‘VILE’ MID-AIR ABUSE

A DRUNKEN aircraft passenger has been jailed for 10 months for his aggressive and abusive behaviour on a flight returning to the UK from Poland. Stephen Blofield, 61, was so intoxicated on the Ryanair flight that both crew and fellow holidaymakers...

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TEMPLE MEADS TOWER BLOCKS TO GO AHEAD

PLANS have been approved for several tower blocks near Temple Meads on what used to be called Arena Island. Councillors at Bristol City Council voted to permit the plans, put forward by a major finance company, to build flats, offices and more on a...

MAN IN HOSPITAL AFTER RIDE-BY SHOOTING

THREE schools were put into lockdown after a man was seriously injured in a ride-by shooting nearby. A major manhunt was launched yesterday afternoon after emergency services received reports a gun was fired at a car in Speedwell Road at 1.47pm. Avon...

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FOUR IN HOSPITAL AFTER PUB CRASH

FIVE people have been injured and a man arrested after a car smashed into the front of a Bristol pub. Emergency services cordoned off the Merchants Arms in Hotwells after a silver Nissan crashed into the building at around 9.30pm on Sunday. Avon and...

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Keep the kids entertained and save £££’s with this great offer. We have teamed up with Day Out With The Kids VIP Pass to give you access to discounts for top attractions across the UK. From theme parks, zoos, aquariums and outdoor adventure to...

BID TO SAVE BEST VIEW

THE fight is on to save what has been described as the “best view in Bristol”. Residents of Windmill Hill and Victoria Park have launched a campaign against plans for a 23-storey block of student flats. The proposed development would be the tallest...

Is track on track?

ADECISION is due next week on building a giant new cycling centre in Bristol with a one-kilometre track meeting standards for regional competitions. A 250-metre training track would also create a traffic-free space for people to learn how to ride...

RUINED MURAL PAINT A ‘CHEAP’ OPTION

BRISTOL City Council turned down two options to better install a failed city centre artwork using properly durable materials due to the high associated costs, the Post can reveal. Our Common Ground, located on the Centre Promenade, has fallen into...

PORTRAIT OF A WAR HERO:

A 99-year-old Bristol Second World War veteran has been photographed as part of a special decade-long project capturing the stories of military heroes. Stan Lucas, who served as a military policeman in Egypt and Palestine, sat for renowned portrait...

BAIL FOR MAN, 32, AFTER MURDER ARREST

A MAN, aged 32, was arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a woman in Bristol on Friday evening. Avon and Somerset Police were called to an address at Sussex Place in St Pauls at around 8.40pm by the ambulance service. A woman was...

Giant jack-up barge arrives to rebuild Birnbeck

ASTRANGE new thing appeared next to Birnbeck Pier at Weston-super-Mare this week. Throughout Wednesday, an unusual shape could be seen across the Severn Estuary, growing slowly larger as it made its way over from Newport. Looking somewhat “like an...

PROTESTS IN CABOT CIRCUS AFTER TEENAGE GIRL ATTACKED

ANGRY protesters gathered outside a Cabot Circus store in Bristol at the weekend following a vicious street attack on a child. Around 20 people assembled on Saturday lunchtime outside the Zara store. They could be heard shouting “shame on you” or...

PLAIN DAFFT

PEOPLE in St George have been left fuming after they spent all of Saturday planting almost 30,000 flowers in the park around the library – only for most of them to be destroyed by the council’s mowing team this week. Council chiefs have agreed to...

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BEARS STAR RAPE CHARGE

BRISTOL Bears rugby club have confirmed that player Will Capon is ‘suspended from all club activities,’ having appeared in court charged with rape. Capon, 26, who plays hooker and has made nearly 100 appearances for the club, is accused of rape in...

KILLER’S DRUG DEALER DAD JAILED

THE father of one of the killers of two teenagers in Bristol two years ago has been jailed after admitting being a drug dealer. Kristian Hooper was caught after an off-duty police officer saw him riding a moped at the McDonald’s drive-thru in...

POLICE SHIELD ‘PATRIOTS’ AS CITY BROUGHT TO STANDSTILL

BRISTOL Patriots’ so-called “Unity March” had been widely condemned by the city’s religious and community groups as dangerous and Islamophobic. But in reality just 40 people turned up to march under a banner of “anti-extremism” and “stop the boats” on...

Author’s sculptures on track for Bristol

ENTRY to the University of Bristol’s Botanic Garden will be donationonly on weekdays throughout 2026 to mark the institution’s 150th anniversary. The new initiative expands on the existing scheme which allowed visitors to Donate As It Suits You every...

£1M TO STOP SCOOTER MESS

PARKING bays for electric scooters are planned to be installed in Bristol and the wider area after a raft of complaints. Pedestrians and people in wheelchairs will be all too familiar with clambering around a scooter parked in the middle of the...

£20,000 REWARD OFFERED TO FIND MELANIE’S MURDERER

THE detective leading the investigation into the murder of 25-year-old Melanie Hall will appear on BBC One’s Crimewatch Live tonight as a new £20,000 reward for information is offered. Detective Chief Inspector Ben Lavender will ask people to cast...