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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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FIGHT FOR ANSWERS OVER TURBULENCE DEATH

WIFE NOW MOUNTS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST AIRLINE AFTER DEADLY ‘6,000FT PLUMMET’ –

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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‘SHAMEFUL’

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...

‘MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES NEED REAL CHANGE’

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‘TOO EXPENSIVE’ TO SAVE

SAVING a doomed athletics track in South Bristol would be too expensive, according to a new report revealing potential costs of changing a housing plan. Redesigning the housing planned for the site, to make space for keeping the track, could cost up...

EVACUATION CAUSED ENDURING HARM

AN independent review of the circumstances surrounding the shock evacuation of hundreds of residents from Bristol’s oldest tower block has concluded that, while the council leaders at the time were right to order the evacuation, it was badly handled...

‘TRAPPED’ BY FALLEN WALL

FED-UP flat owners say a three-year boundary dispute with the council has left them unable to sell their homes. Tons of earth crashed into the basement car park at Park Edge on Church Road in St George in March 2023 when a park retaining wall...

‘BRAZEN’ BIKE THIEVES JAILED FOR 24 YEARS

AGANG of Hartcliffe motorbike thieves who posted their crimes on social media sites have been jailed. Marshall Thomas, 18, Cameron Stevens and Brandon Carter, both 22, targeted dozens of motorbikes around Bristol worth almost £600,000. Their...

D-DAY FOR EBLN

ADECISION is due next week on turning the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood trial into a permanent scheme. This would involve installing dropped kerbs, upgrading a notorious junction and installing new pedestrian crossings across Barton Hill,...

‘TRAPPED’

AGRANDMOTHER says she faces being stuck at home almost 24 hours a day, seven days a week, after a council panel decided it would be too hard to install a ramp outside her house in Bristol. Janice Moule has lived in her council house in Bedminster for...

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SCHOOL TARGETED IN ISLAMOPHOBIC ATTACK

POLICE are investigating after a Bristol primary school was targeted in an Islamophobic graffiti attack. The abusive messages, directed towards the Muslim community, were found painted at entrances to Blaise Primary and Nursery School yesterday...

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TEACHER KILLED BY DRUG DRIVER

ADRUG driver has been jailed for killing a former teacher who was enjoying a morning bike ride. Daniel Booth was driving in Aust when his car veered into the path of an oncoming bike, ridden by 56-year-old Neil Routley, who died from the injuries he...

HARBOUR FESTIVAL ‘FACING AXE’

BRISTOL Harbour Festival could face the axe after next year amid fears that the current operators could pull out because of costs. It comes after a report to city councillors revealed that one in four events planned for Bristol Harbour this year have...

Surf’s up!

Surfers at The Wave, Bristol, have ditched their wetsuits and are being advised to wear rash-vests and board-shorts as the water is so warm and currently at 27C - hotter than the Mediterranean and on par to surfing in the Caribbean. Read our hot...

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‘I ONLY WANTED TO SCARE ARIA’

ATEENAGE boy accused of murdering a nine-year-old girl has told a court of the moment she was fatally stabbed. Aria Thorpe died after sustaining a knife wound to her chest at her home in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, on December 15 last...

AXED EVENTS HIT HARBOUR COFFERS

‘CHALLENGING CONDITIONS’ MEAN QUARTER OF 2026 PROGRAMME IS CANCELLED

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...