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ASDA WILL ‘WORSEN SHOPLIFT BLIGHT’

LOCALS fear a new supermarket will make the “huge” shoplifting problem blighting their area even worse. The Asda Express in Redcliffe is due to open in summer next year, on the ground floor of Twine House on Redcliff Street. The residential area...

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Are you familiar with the expression “lampmad”? If not, can you guess what it means? Might it date back to the 19th century, to describe someone who’s inhaled too many fumes from a primitive gas-fired lighting fixture, causing them to lose their...

‘A step too far’ Pub pulls outdoor bar plan after ‘grandstand’ makeover

ACOMMUNITY pub in Kingswood putting the finishing touches to a major revamp has been granted permission to play recorded music and films outside despite neighbours’ objections. But Marstons, which runs The Old Plough in Westons Way, withdrew...

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WHEN it comes to our finances, planning is the key to success, and the earlier you start, the better. “The key thing to do is start now,” says Claire Sweet, financial adviser at Blueprint Financial Solutions. Following on from World Financial...

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SHOOTER NOT GUILTY OF MURDER ATTEMPT

ASPEEDWELL man has been cleared of attempted murder after shooting another person in the chest with a sawn-off shotgun from extremely close range. William Scammell, 25, shot Ryan Cridland from about a metre away as Mr Cridland sat in the passenger...

UNMASKED – TEEN KILLERS WHO MURDERED DARRIAN

TWO teenagers who were jailed for life for the murder of a teenage boy in Bristol two years ago can now be named for the first time after they both turned 18 this year. Jaelen Wilson and James Ojo were both convicted of the murder of 16-year-old...

‘COLD-BLOODED AND CAREFULLY PLANNED EXECUTION’

A UNIVERSITY student lay in wait for his housemate to return home before stabbing him 30 times to death in a “carefully planned and coldblooded execution”, a court heard. Zack Coughlan, 23, dressed all in black and wore a mask and gloves to ambush...

MAN, 73, FACING MURDER CHARGE

ANOTORIOUS and longempty toilet block that stands in a Bristol park close to Ashton Gate Stadium could be transformed into a cafe, community hub and youth centre. South Bristol youth work organisation Grassroot Communities – the team which organises...

Woods search Police found gun cartridge - but no shotgun

POLICE searched a park, woodland and a waterway in an unsuccessful attempt to find a gun believed to have been used in an alleged attempted murder, a court has heard. William Scammell allegedly shot Ryan Cridland as he sat in the passenger seat of a...

M32 TO FACE SIX YEARS OF DISRUPTION

HIGHWAYS chiefs have admitted the M32 flyover at Eastville has had “minimal maintenance and renewal” in the past, as they embark on a project which will see roadworks on the motorway for six years. National Highways is in Bristol this week to let...

CONCORDE MUSEUM FEELS THE PINCH

THE Aerospace Bristol museum is struggling financially as “visitors have less to spend” and a taxpayer loan has been extended. The museum in Patchway is home to Concorde and showcases the region’s aerospace industry heritage. When the museum opened in...

Affordable housing Council changed rules after developer meeting

COUNCIL chiefs in Bristol changed the rules to allow developers to build without having to include any ‘affordable’ homes – just eight weeks after being asked to at a meeting with one of the city’s biggest developers. Documents released last week show...

Council tax Bills jump almost twice as fast as wages

COUNCIL tax bills in Bristol have shot up by a whopping two-thirds over the past dozen years. Bristol residents now pay a much larger share of their income on council tax, as average wages across the city have risen half as quickly since 2014, despite...

Early release Ex-inmates thank Prime Minister

PRISONERS walked out of HMP Bristol yesterday – with some thanking Prime Minister Andy Burnham for their freedom. Inmates from the Horfield jail were among 700 let out as part of the Government’s early release scheme aiming to prevent a capacity...

TEEN ARSONIST’S SPREE OF TERROR

Przemeck Trojecki started numerous fires including this in Oldbury Court Road

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‘THEY’VE VIOLATED OLIVER’S MEMORY’

AMUM says her son’s medical records were ‘violated’ after discovering dozens of NHS staff may have accessed them inappropriately in the years following his death. Paula McGowan, 61, whose teen son Oliver McGowan died in 2016, said she was left feeling...

‘BRING GEORGE HOME’

THE family of a missing 18-year-old who has not been seen for a week have shared a desperate appeal to find him. Avon and Somerset Police said George, whose surname has not been disclosed, had been out near the Royal Inn pub, off Pier Road, in...

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COUNCIL IS FORCED TO PAY BACK VAN DWELLERS

BRISTOL City Council will have to hand back thousands of pounds to van dwellers on its ‘meanwhile sites’ after a decision to charge them council tax was overturned. Greens leading the authority have apologised for the uncertainty and frustration,...

TOO TAXING FOR TOURISTS?

THE metro mayor of the West of England has been given the power to raise an ‘Overnight Visitor Levy’ – a tourist tax applied on hotels, guesthouses and Airbnbs – Government ministers have confirmed, but the move is already proving controversial. The...

BARRIERS PLAN FOR HARBOUR

THREE Harbourside locations have been identified for potential spots where better barriers could stop people falling in the water. A safety review has been taking place about Bristol’s harbour highlighting the hazards of people slipping or tripping on...

‘MAKE VENTURERS PAY TO STOP SCHOOL STRIKES’

THE woman in charge of education in Bristol says the city’s controversial Society of Merchant Venturers organisation, along with the University of Bristol, should come up with the money needed to end the row over backpay that this week will see staff...

27 YEARS’ JAIL FOR RAPIST

ASOUTH Bristol paedophile who told his victim no one would believe her has been jailed for 27 years. Krzysztof Biros, 52, was sentenced for eight counts of rape against a child at Bristol Crown Court. He changed his pleas to guilty halfway through...

CALL FOR ANSWERS OVER DEADLY POLLUTION IN STREAM

WILDLIFE has been found dead following a suspected pollution outbreak in a Bristol stream. Last Wednesday the Friends of Brislington Brook took to their Facebook page to note several reports of foam billowing up from the water along with a rancid...

‘TOO MANY STUDENTS’

PLANS to turn a former care home into student flats have been rejected by Bristol city councillors amid concern the area has become “over-concentrated” and “unbalanced”. The planning committee voted 5-3, with one abstention, to block the redevelopment...

ARSON PROBE OVER WAREHOUSE BLAZE:

AFIRE which tore through a building in Brislington is thought to have been started deliberately. Fire crews were called at 2.27pm on Tuesday to a blaze at an industrial unit on Emery Road. At its peak, 16 fire engines were in attendance, and a cordon...

EXPLOSIONS AT WAREHOUSE

A 200-metre cordon was in place around a Bristol industrial estate last night as fire crews from across the city and beyond tackled a blaze at a warehouse. Plumes of black smoke billowed into the sky above Brislington yesterday afternoon as the fire...

THOUSANDS FIGHT PLAN FOR NEW AI DATA CENTRE

PLANS to build an AI data centre in Avonmouth have been flooded with thousands of objections. More than 3,000 people have submitted written opposition to Bristol City Council following an application by Rivington Energy Management Limited. The...

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SCHOOLS GO BACK TO STRIKE ACTION

WORKERS at seven schools in Bristol are set to strike at the beginning of the coming academic year due to a dispute over historical backpay for support staff. Union members at the schools, which are all part of the large E-ACT multi-academy trust, are...

FIRST HOSEPIPE BAN FOR 50 YEARS

MORE than 1.2 million people in Bristol and the surrounding area will be subject to a hosepipe ban for the first time in 50 years from midnight tonight. People in around half a million households who get their tap water supplied by Bristol Water will...

COACH FIRM CELEBRATES 100TH ANNIVERSARY

BRISTOL’S longest-serving coach company is celebrating its centenary. Eagle Coaches has been owned by the same family since the very beginning and held a party to mark its 100th year earlier this month. The milestone marks both a celebration of Eagle...

‘THERE MUST BE OVER 100 RATS HERE’

RESIDENTS of a block of flats in Lawrence Hill say an infestation of rats is so bad they have to keep their children inside. People living at Twinnell House say there must be at least 100 rats living in bushes and open drains in the area around their...

Demo Police called to energy firm’s HQ as protesters occupy office foyer

POLICE were called as angry customers of Bristol energy company Ovo invaded their office building and occupied the foyer, saying they wouldn’t leave until they had arranged a meeting with senior executives. The customers told their stories as part of...

EXTREME VIDEOS DROVE YOUNG MAN TO ‘JOIN ISIS’

A22-YEAR-OLD Horfield man who travelled to Somalia in a failed bid to join the so-called Islamic State (IS) has been found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism. Somali-born Mohamed Mohamoud, who moved to Bristol to live with his mother and brother,...

BOTULISM ALERT AT PARK

BRISTOL City Council has confirmed it is investigating reports of a suspected botulism outbreak at a lake in Bristol. Concerned residents reported an outbreak of the deadly bacteria at the lake in St George’s Park, where they say local wildlife has...

THE ‘FOX HEAD’ THAT SOLD FOR £50,OOO

ATAXIDERMY ‘fox head’ bought for just £50 at a market has sold for £50,000 at auction – after it turned out to be the world’s only surviving head of an extinct tiger. The ‘one of a kind’ discovery of the rare thylacine mounted head, also known as the...

CONSPIRACY THEORIST JAILED FOR ABUSE

ATIKTOK conspiracy theorist with a ‘God complex’ left his ex-girlfriend suicidal and caused her to suffer meltdowns and hospitalisations during an abusive and controlling relationship, a court has heard. Karl Farr, 31, was sentenced to 39 months in...

BRIDGE SHUTS DUE TO ‘MALFUNCTION’

WITNESSES described hearing “a huge crash” as Pero’s Bridge in Bristol city centre malfunctioned yesterday morning. The harbourside landmark and usually busy thoroughfare for pedestrians and cyclists remained closed yesterday afternoon after...

APPEAL TO CLEAN UP STREET

THE ongoing waste problem on Stapleton Road is ‘unacceptable,’ according to a resident who has called on the council, its waste company and local businesses to come up with a coordinated solution to the problem. The woman, who lives in a culde-sac...

OSTEOPATH STRUCK OFF OVER BEHAVIOUR

ASOUTH Bristol osteopath has been struck off after having a sexual relationship with one of his patients and telling another that he had ‘raped the brains’ of two others. Jeremy Marquette, who ran a holistic osteopath clinic called Toward Health in...

‘STOP KIDS RUNNING RIOT AT SHOPPING CENTRE’

PEOPLE living around a now empty shopping centre in south Bristol are calling on parents in the wider area to check on their children after what is being described as a ‘serious escalation’ in anti-social behaviour, arson, abuse and criminal...

Floating on air

A MAN hanged himself while awaiting trial at Bristol Magistrates’ Court after custody officers missed a welfare check, a report has revealed. Matthew Manning, 55, was due to appear in court on November 6 2023, charged with violent offences against his...

HUGE OPPOSITION TO TRAFFIC TRIAL

THERE is almost unanimous opposition to plans for a liveable neighbourhood in South Bristol from business owners along the area’s main high street – as the community awaits the next draft plans from Bristol City Council. A new report and video...

NEW SPECIAL SHAPE UNVEILED FOR THIS WEEKEND’S BALLOON FIESTA

A BRAND new special shape hot air balloon which had been kept tightly under wraps until this week, has finally been unveiled for this year’s Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. Due to make its debut flight at the Fiesta this weekend, the latest...

Van the Man heads to Bristol

SIR Van Morrison has announced 10 additional UK dates for October and November after his September shows sold out – including a Bristol date. The tour will begin with two nights at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on October 8 and 9. This will be...

RESIDENTS’ SHOCK OVER ‘HATE’ ATTACK ON STREET

RESIDENTS have opened up about their worries after a serious attack on a Filipino man over the weekend. Police are treating last Friday’s serious assault – which initially saw three people being arrested on suspicion of attempted murder – as a...

THREE SUSPECTED OF TRYING TO KILL CARGO SHIP CREW

THREE people have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a Filipino man was seriously assaulted in Avonmouth on Friday. Police are treating the assault as a suspected hate crime while continuing to make enquiries. Emergency services were...

‘It’s an exciting day’ Work finally starts on £162m Sporting Quarter

WORK to create a new Ashton Gate Sporting Quarter, complete with a 5,000 capacity basketball arena and conference centre, hotel and new homes is finally under way, eight years after the project was first announced. Demolition crews have begun work...

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ASELF-PROCLAIMED neoNazi white supremacist who gave Nazi salutes, shouted ‘Heil Hitler’ and abused Jewish people on a far-right march through the centre of Bristol earlier this year has been fined by a judge in court. The judge described Ryan...

BUS STOP TOILET PEST CAUGHT IN COUNCIL STING

AMIDDLE-AGED Filton man has been unmasked as the mystery toilet pest who used a village bus stop as his own personal lavatory for a two-and-ahalf-month period. Sean Daley, 54, regularly travelled from his home in Gloucester Road North to Mayshill,...

MAN ‘FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE AFTER SCREWDRIVER ATTACK

A BRISTOL man is battling for his life after allegedly being stabbed in the head with a screwdriver at a Wiltshire construction site, writes Callum Hoare. Jamie Chappell, 25, was taken to hospital in an emergency following the incident in Purton on...

Councillors give unanimous backing to construction of new club

A NEW bingo hall in south Bristol has been granted planning permission after players praised a popular club’s community spirit. Club 3000 can now build a replacement bingo hall on Hartcliffe Way just south of Bedminster, and the decision was welcomed...

TEENAGER SPRAYED SHOPPERS WITH HOME-MADE IRRITANT

ATEENAGER with an “unhealthy fascination with violence” who sprayed Costco customers with a homemade irritant has avoided jail. Romeo Dumbi, who is now aged 18 and from North Somerset, was arrested after he was detained by members of the public at...

DAMNING TOWER REPORT SHELVED FOR 14 MONTHS

COUNCIL bosses have promised improvements after experts warning of the risk of Barton House collapsing were ignored for more than a year. A new inquiry into the evacuation of the block of council flats in Barton Hill in 2023 has criticised how the...

‘A TIME OF HOPE?’

LOCAL Labour politicians were yesterday welcoming the arrival of a new Prime Minister – although the region’s most powerful MP Darren Jones lost his seat at the Cabinet table. West of England Combined Authority mayor Helen Godwin was quick to dub Andy...

In pole position at Harbour Festival

THE winner of Bristol’s inaugural Red Bull “Up The Mast” contest – in which contenders attempted to scale a heavily greased wooden pole without sliding off – has vowed to defend his title next year. Thousands gathered to watch the competition which...

CHURCH ‘PUTTING TOURISM OVER CLIMATE’

FOUR Christians, including a retired vicar, who barricaded themselves onto the roof of the tower at Bath Abbey said the response from church leaders showed they cared more about making money from tourism than the impending death of two billion people...

WESSEX WATER FACES CRIMINAL CHARGES OVER FATAL BLAST

BOSSES at Wessex Water will be brought to court to face criminal charges in relation to an explosion at Avonmouth which killed four workers. The Health and Safety Executive is to charge Wessex Water as a corporate body under the Health and Safety at...

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