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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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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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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...

‘CAMERAS FOR KEITH’ AT DANGER JUNCTION

THE partner of a man killed almost nine years ago by a driver at a dangerous junction in South Bristol has welcomed the installation of enforcement cameras at the spot where he died. Local councillors and the family of Keith Pullin, who died back in...

‘LACK OF CASH’ FOR US TO HIT NET ZERO

ALACK of cash is jeopardising Bristol’s net zero climate goals and millions of pounds are needed from the private sector. Bristol has slashed how much greenhouse gas is emitted locally in the past two decades, but there is not enough public funding to...

FEARS OVER SCHOOL ‘WAR’

Chief inspector Keith Smith who said the force had been in contact with schools across the city to offer reassurance and crime prevention advice

TEACHERS STRIKE IN BULLYING ROW

TEACHERS at a primary school in Bristol have announced they are going on strike for six days in protest at what they say is a “toxic management culture of fear and bullying”. Members of the National Education Union (NEU) at May Park Primary School in...

COUNCIL RETHINK ON ROAD BLOCKS

AJUNCTION at the heart of problems with the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood will soon see some changes. Bollards, planters and bus gates in Barton Hill, Redfield and St George have pushed some drivers onto using Blackswarth Road as an alternative...

‘REJECT ISLAMOPHOBIC UNITY MARCH’

ABRISTOL MP has said she is concerned about plans for a “patriots” march in Bristol next month which she said was “clearly” targeted against Muslims in the city. Kerry McCarthy said she had spoken with police chiefs about the “alarming development”...

BRISTOL LIGHT FESTIVAL GETS UNDER WAY

THE Bristol Light Festival got under way on Thursday night – bringing a much-needed splash of colour to the winter cityscape. The festival takes place across the city until February 28 – with installations in place from Clifton to Cabot Circus car...

‘VIVA AVIVA ARENA!’

THE name of Bristol’s longawaited arena has been announced. The 20,000-seater venue will be called Aviva Arena following a major deal with the UK insurance giant. The details of the transaction have not been disclosed but it is understood it is a...

BLOW FOR BUS CAMPAIGNERS

WEST of England Metro Mayor Helen Godwin has dealt a blow to all those who have campaigned for years for the region’s buses to be brought back into public control, after she said she would need to create a region-wide council tax precept to pay for...

‘48 HOURS TO LEAVE, OR FACE EVICTION’

PEOPLE living in caravans on a Bristol street have been told to leave by tomorrow or face eviction. Bristol City Council has secured a court order to force van dwellers to leave Goodneston Road in Fishponds after a raft of complaints and a spate of...

‘‘ SAFETY FEAR AT HARBOUR

THE Cascade Steps ferry landing stage at the top of Bristol Floating Harbour is rotting and needs replacing urgently. And it has emerged that a member of the public fell partway through the wooden structure back in 2022, but only now has the city...

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Court Nursery worker guilty of abusing kids in his care

ABRISTOL nursery worker is facing jail after being found guilty of multiple sexual offences against children in his care. Nathan Bennett, 30, was convicted at Bristol Crown Court of eight charges including rape, sexual assault and assault by...

Knife crime ‘Don’t let children become desensitised’

YOUTH campaigners fear young people risk becoming desensitised to knife violence. Martin Bisp, chief executive and co-founder of Empire Fighting Chance, a Bristol boxing charity which uses programmes to help young people impacted by inequality and...

Parks Commercial dog walkers and fitness coaches must get licences

EXERCISE and dog-walking businesses operating in Bristol’s parks risk £500 fines if they fail to get a licence. From April, organisations running paid-for activities in green spaces must hold a Parks Business Licence costing up to £960 to operate...

Lotto win is like ‘help from above’

A MUM and hairdresser from Bristol has spoken about how her Set For Life lottery win feels like “help from above” after a very difficult few years. Emma Parkins, 46, won £10,000 every month for a year after matching five main numbers in The National...

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Housing How far is too far from a train station?

THE largest train station in the West Country is a kilometre away from Princess Street, where developers want to build hundreds of homes – but they were told this was too far away for future residents to walk to public transport. Galliard Apsley...

Hydrotherapy tubs Sisters launch city’s first dedicated spa for babies

BRISTOL’S love affair with spas dates back hundreds of years with well-heeled folk flocking to take the waters at the Hotwells resort during Georgian times. And now it seems the pursuit is attracting a very new generation of fans. The city has...