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Exemptions for personal information & commercial confidentiality in FoI do not entitle an authority to withhold (1) names of the members of Selection Panel (2) Applications from rival bidders (3) score awarded to the winning bidder (4) docs detailing assessment of the winning bid
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New gentrification map of Bristol:
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Colston Four Not Guilty all charges!!
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The Banksy t-shirt will massively increase the profile of Monday's trial, which the media were trying to ignore.
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@ConorGogarty He said he's anti-capitalism not anti-lockdown; that fear is a means of control and that modern life also makes lots of people ill. What's so confusing?
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"An NHS worker on duty that night told the Observer that no officers were treated in the hospital designated for the police, whereas the hospital designated for protesters was inundated with injured people"
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Discovered the Centurion in Twerton today. Is this the coolest council estate pub ever?
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Cocaine is now officially the most unfashionable drug ever. Don't do it kids. It'll make you a Tory.
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Homeless charity builds homes and puts them on Airbnb!
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Visiting Bristol? Our Eco Pods are now available to book via @Airbnb 🎉 We're delighted to launch our brand new social enterprise, which will generate income for our homelessness charity. Book Carmen Pod: Book Delores Pod:
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Concentration of power in London is ‘UK disease’ says outgoing Bristol mayor: "He also said he believed the decision by the people of Bristol to scrap the post of elected mayor was a mistake." <<looks less of a mistake every time he opens his mouth.
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Concentration of power in London is ‘UK disease’ says outgoing Bristol mayor

Marvin Rees says best way to tackle issues such as decaying infrastructure and the climate emergency is at a city level

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Countering Colston said: “This is a great moment of hope for Bristol. For decades the democratic process to remove the statue failed. "Not because of any doubt that it was harming our communities, but because of the influence of its defenders, the Society of Merchant Venturers"
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CPS has destroyed all records of Keir Starmer’s four trips to Washington "Asked for clarification – and whether the destruction of Starmer’s Washington documents was routine – the CPS did not respond."
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CPS has destroyed all records of Keir Starmer’s four trips to Washington

US records show Starmer met with Attorney General Eric Holder and a host of American and British national security officials in Washington in 2011, when he was in charge of Julian Assange’s proposed...

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""It is shameful that Bristol City Council did not take down the statue of slaver Edward Colston that had caused such offence to people in Bristol and equally shameful that they then supported the prosecution of these defendants”
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We had night buses 20 years ago:
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Bristol to get first dedicated Night Bus service
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In 2016 when Rees was elected a Band D council tax bill was 1,721.25. It's now £2,460.32. A 43 per cent increase. Anyone out there think they're getting 43 per cent better services?
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Our council tax bill is £1,910. Good value?
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Anyone heard from Marvin Rees today?
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is there not a Massive Twat Award he can enter?
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Rees shortlisted for world's best mayor award

The awards honours mayors who have served "with integrity, courage and imagination"

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Why is the MP for Nottingham East calling for an investigation into the policing of demonstrations. in Bristol but not Bristol MPs? Where are they?
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NEWS JUST IN!!! Bristol City Council CEO Mike Jackson has quit! Councillors informed today. The great communicator is fucking off before the shit really hits the fan. (Did he see Twitter this weekend?)
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This has appeared on College Green directly opposite the mayor's office at the Council House:
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Unsurprisingly, he's got an award off the Tories:
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BREAKING: Bristol mayor Marvin Rees has received an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List
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There's a serious disconnect between the people elected to run the council and the people they then employ to do the work:
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Politicians from all four parties are at this afternoon’s protest at Yew Tree Farm
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The council confuses a cycle path with a Sexual Entertainment Venue.
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Have your say on the future of Sexual Entertainment Venues in Bristol. Tell us your views before Sunday 19 December:
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There are 17 TUSC candidates running in Bristol's local elections. If you want socialists in the council chamber speaking out against public service cuts, vote for a socialist party. Check candidates here:
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Local councillor election 2024: nominated candidates

 There are 34 statements of persons nominated papers, one for each Bristol ward. Ashley Ward Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston Ward Bedminster Ward Bishopston and Ashley Down Ward Bishopsworth

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BARTON HOUSE: HOW BADLY HAVE REES AND BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL FUCKED UP THIS TIME? <Why did the Rees administration disregard government advice for 6 years & allow a building to deteriorate to the point where 400 residents had to be evacuated at short notice
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The new Bond villain is revealed:
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We've had plenty of 'peeks around' now. Can the BBC do a peek around @BristolCouncil 's accounts and tell us how we're paying for it and how much?
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#Bristol Beacon is almost ready 🎵 It's taken FIVE YEARS to revamp - but with a week to go until opening day, we've been for a peek around.
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76.1% don't bother! 'The turnout was 23.09% with about 100,000 fewer voters than at the last PCC election in 2021.'
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Avon & Somerset PCC: Labour beat Tories in local election

Labour's Clare Moody beat Conservative candidate Mark Shelford by more than 4,000 votes on Friday.

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Still not clear where they would move the library to. Consequently hard to see how it will save money. Large buildings need to be rented, built or bought. We get the current council owned one for free.
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Central library could relocate to save council millions

Parks, transport and care homes could also face major budget savings next year

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FIRST LOOK AT NEW RESTAURANT INSIDE BRISTOL BEACON More top local journalism: this restaurant is actually owned by a Kent-based catering company, Graysons. Their major shareholder is US prison food provider, Aramak 1/2
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First look at new restaurant inside Bristol Beacon

The Colonnade will serve a seasonal menu headed by an ex-River Cottage chef

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The statue @MarvinJRees did remove:
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Bring back Ursa!
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How long before constituents in Bristol North East vote to scrap the role of MP?
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NEW: Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees tells @johndarvall he's going to "throw his hat into the ring" to become the City's 5th MP at the next election. A new constituency (Bristol North East) is being created, whilst his term as Mayor ends in 2024....
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@beardedjourno If he kept the libraries open, sorted the potholes, delivered arenas and mass transit and brought arts centre renovations in on budget, you may have a point. But why ponce atround 'the world stage' (basically attending obscure conerences) when you can't do the basics?
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We'd all like this information:
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The jury has asked for some more information about the Society of Merchant Venturers and why did they have influence over Bristol City Council?
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Nothing is being done about it because it's not in the centre and it doesn't affect West Bristol luvvies. Next question please.
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Imagine trying to get through THIS 😮💦 Lawrence Hill Roundabout underpass has been flooding for YEARS – so what’s being done about it?
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I've seen it all now. Did @bristolcouncil buy this off Disney? (Can someone ask @brislord mayor to unblock me? So it's easier to take the piss)
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I'm a 'a dickhead' says outraged Tory councillor
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He deserves ten years for that beard alone:
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For the avoidance of doubt: This account is not promoted by Ed Fraser.
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Hand up who gives a shit what some anonymous nobody from Zambia thinks about Bristol?
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Quote from Marvin Rees. "When I was [in Rwanda], one of the ministers from Zambia came up to me and said ‘we’re proud of what you do in Bristol’." If only the people in Bristol could agree with this sentiment ! Rees is delusional, lacks any sense of humility or self-awareness !
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Why not make public transport free for all children rather than telling us what to do?
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WEST - West of England Sustainable Transport
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Almost 50% of primary and 25% of secondary age pupils travel to school by car*. 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗 Why not make the school run greener this week? Leave the car at home and try walking, scooting or cycling to school. Find #JoyInTheJourney *DfT Gear Change report
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Watch out for your hedgerows, Labour are coming!
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Cllr Zoë Peat🌹
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Happy Saturday from @LabourBristol , your council candidates for Avonmouth & Lawrence Weston Ward, and your candidate for Police & Crime Commissioner, @ClareMoody4PCC
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BCC accounts reveal a tasty little salary uplift for the boss of Bristol Waste, up from £105,534 to £124,774. That's an 18% pay rise. The rest of BCC staff got 2%. 'We're all in it together'
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"We are the city of culture, creativity, sustainability, rebellion, advanced manufacturing, world class universities and aerospace, the city that justifiably prides itself in doing things differently and makes a net contribution to the treasury"
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Reports emerging that 64 head injuries caused by batons were treated at Bristol hospitals on Sunday night
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LEAKED DOCUMENTS: SEND PARENT SPY MATERIAL REVEALED: <<Why has Bristol City Council’s External Comms Team been supplying wedding photos of SEND parents to Education Director, Alison “Pervy” Hurley? Is this normal?
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At a festival with an impenetrable fence around it:
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Open to all! DH
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Souless corporate shithole:
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Civic Society slams Temple Island plans as 'unattractive' and too tall

Plans are for 500 new homes, up to 2,000 new jobs, and a new hotel and conference centre

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Corporate shithole no one wants:
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Latest images revealed for Temple Island plans

It is almost six years since Legal & General first unveiled their vision for the site

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The Bristolian is going weekly from this week thanks to generous funding from the Quartet Foundation. On the streets today!
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Give to your community | Quartet CF

Quartet awards grants every year to hundreds of local charities and voluntary groups. Help support a wide range of charities in the West of England and donate.

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Why can't the council earmark some capital expenditure to restore this building? £60m for the Beacon in the centre; sod-all for Knowle West. I thought cultural regeneration was a thing?
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Old cinema demolition delayed after new find

Campaigners have been fighting to save the building

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The Bristolian are just too good to you: CHRISTMAS ISSUE ON THE STREETS NOW!
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Now that the sordid Society of Merchant Venturers are back in the news again, I wonder if the press are going to report on how their education wing, the Venturers Trust settled a libel action after calling Christine Townsend and activists "terrorists"?
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WE’RE HERE! <<On the streets next week … All the news unfit to print!
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And bang on target, BCC tries to pull Bristol Parent Carer Forum funding:
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Shit politians working for global corporate interests are far more responsible for ruining communities:
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Antisocial behaviour ruins communities. Labour will stamp it out.
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@CllrAsherCraig @MrGthePhysicist @stillawake And your administration has an unhelpful obsession with preventing FoI requests.
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The first thing coppers do the morning after a riot is a lie:
Cardiff riots: Police refer themselves to watchdog after crash deaths

Two people died in the crash involving an electric bike, sparking a riot on Monday evening.

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The Golden Girls remake looks terrible:
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Spice Girls announce Bristol gig in 2019

The reunion tour won't feature Victoria Beckham

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I've got to retweet this again it's so funny.
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Devine intervention? There is no planet B Police 'defending' a coal mine get stuck in mud at Luetzerath in Germany #Luetzerathbleibt #Luetzerath #German #coalmine #ClimateStrike
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@thetwerkinggirl @suziegeewizz Colston was personally responsible for 12,000 dead children under 10 thrown into the Atlantic.
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Treat people like shit and then accuse them of intimidation. Just another day at Bristol City Council ...
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Statement on full council today from ACORN Bristol Committee and ACORN Barton House Block Reps 👇
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Embezzling public funds?
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Guess what I’m doing tomorrow!!!! 🗑️🚛
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BARTON HOUSE: A BUILDING PROFESSIONAL WRITES: <<One has to conclude that it appears, from current revelations, that BCC has not / is not competently managing its estate which, after experiences such as Ronan, Grenfall etc, is a grave public concern
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According to the council turnout in Windmill Hill was 86.39%!
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Not very busy. A third of the people that turned up for Greta Thunberg?
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Every MP we've elected and every council administration we've elected supported the removal of the statue. But it never happened. Who runs Bristol?
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The Colston statue should have been removed years ago and put in Bristol's MShed museum with the displays on slavery. Perhaps it's all the more poignant that he goes there now in a battered and tarnished state.
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Planning committees are supposed to vote on the basis of planning policy not for for what they 'believe'.
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As a Muslim councillor in Bristol I shouldn't be afraid to vote for what I believe. I am absolutely disgusted with the Green Party candidate @DanicaPriest attacking me because I voted for Bristol South to have more burial spaces for Muslim communities in Bristol. Muslims have no…
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@CllrEllieking @Aden_Harris_ @KevinSlocombe You need to be bringing people and the city together, not have a public slanging match with the residents' union. Really embarrassing. Show some leadership.
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It is estimated that nearly half of public land in Britain has been sold off since the 1970s, and that more than 4,000 public spaces and buildings are being sold off every year in England alone
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Hands off our park: Shrewsbury takes its council to the supreme court

Row over Greenfields recreation ground could be a test case on selling English public land for housing

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A lot of Labour councillors are refusing to acknowledge this - 8 years vanity projects are bankrupting our council in Bristol
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A lot of people in Bristol are refusing to acknowledge this basic truth - 13 years of austerity are bankrupting councils across the country.
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Today, Bristol Live is standing up for a reporter targeted for public ridicule by our city's political elite. This is why...
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"The mayoral system is only interested in getting things done which involve wearing a hard hat and hi-viz. It’s not about getting things done like sorting our SEND (special educational needs and disabilities), or adult social care or libraries."
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'The mayoral model creates a politics where sycophancy is rewarded and challenge is suppressed'

Nicola Bowden-Jones argues against keeping the mayoral system in Bristol

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Anger as tower block tenants demand rent pause "Dudd said the council would “consider supporting” the tenants association, but wouldn't agree to recognise Acorn as representing tenants. Asked why he wouldn’t recognise Acorn, he offered no explanation."
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Anger at meeting as evicted tower block tenants demand rent pause

Survey results are expected to show next week whether the tower block is safe to return to

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2 years
Looks like he's on Mastermind. Specialist subject: myself
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Rees: 'Colston's statue not being there is a good thing but we must deal with issues of substance'

Marvin Rees says we must focus on tackling structural inequalities

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Bristol Citizen
@bristol_citizen
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@stillawake They're taking the piss. They also openly admit to setting up fake social media accounts. They are the disinformation operation.
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BRISTOLIAN #72 : ON THE STREETS NOW!
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5 years
Bristol City Council removed this and other graf about Extinction Rebellion in less than 24 hours, Try getting a service like that in your local community ...
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"We deserved to lose Eurovision. I don’t know who came up with the idea of Bristol bidding to stage the Eurovision Song Contest but it was a futile time-wasting political stunt with a snowball’s chance in hell of success."
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Bristol 'deserved to lose Eurovision bid', says George Ferguson

"It was a futile time-wasting political stunt"

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2 years
Out of touch and barking mad:
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‘No irony’ in flying 4,600 miles for climate talk says mayor

Marvin Rees has responded to criticism from campaigners about his decision to fly to Vancouver for a 14-minute talk

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4 years
‘YOU DON’T NEED TO BE AN EXPERT TO KNOW MORE ROADS LEAD TO MORE CAR JOURNEYS’
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4 years
@RevRichardColes You should find out what the CofE were up to.
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2 months
I get the greater sense of a complete sell-out.
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Marvin Rees said in his final major speech as Bristol mayor this evening that he has been left with a greater sense of belief in the authenticity of some Merchant Venturer members than some anti-racist and social justice activists
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5 months
Failure upon failure and the excuses get poorer:
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Barton House BbcWest Q: Do you feel you the council have handled it as well as you could have ? Marvin Rees : “ I think we’ve tried to handle it as well as we could have , I mean , what do they say ? No plan survives contact with the real world ..”
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If they can make small traders reveal their income to them. How come the council can't get their own interim managers to reveal their incomes for a public pay policy?
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Popular Bristol coffee van could be forced to move after council asks for slice of profits
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If you make a property developers' stooge chief executive of your council, of course they're going to spend taxpayers money destroying and preventing the commons and common land. Private land is where the money is.
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BristolFTW
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BCC applies to sue itself over village green decision: ‘For @BristolCouncil to attack the properly-made decision of a fully-delegated committee is unprecedented, unconstitutional, unlawful & a hugely unnecessary waste of taxpayer money.’ @openspacessoc @CommunityPlann1
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5 months
Good news. Better planning decsions on the way:
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Bristol Labour Group
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5 months
This week's meeting of Development Control Committee B saw our councillors subjected to unacceptable behaviour. As a result we won't attend future meetings of it until further notice. Full statement below. 👇
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1 year
Maybe we should turn it into a feature and call the area New Venice?
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sadiedidi
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Barton Hill Lido still available for triathlon training / baptisms #joinmyjourney @BristolCouncil @BristolLive
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3 years
This is what's called a 'result'. The Rees strategy to get this quietly dealt with by magistrates has collapsed:
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5 months
Only two options available if you get involved with Bristol City Council - you can be treated like shit or die.
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In the BCC meeting today, an ACORN Member and Barton House resident said to @KyeDudd : "the way we have been treated by the council is unacceptable" Dudd responded: "would you prefer if we left you in there to die?" A disgrace to your city. We will never forget this
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Planning in Bristol totally breaks down. Our council is an embarrassing farce:
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'Childish insults' thrown as row over planning backlog escalates

The committee chairs have exchanged a war of words after one accused the other of blocking changes to speed up huge backlog of applications

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@LesterJHolloway That unconscious bias of selecting him as a mayoral candidate three times and electing him mayor twice?
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Surprisingly, most schools don't want nonce apologists and slave trade venerators on their board of governors:
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Merchant Venturers to no longer provide school governors following trust merger

Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers will be taking a step back from most of their involvement in children's education

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"Turnip-munching racists"? How old is this ridiculous little man?
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Well, this is a load of bollocks:
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Amal Ali
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After today's Friday prayers, myself, my friends and community leaders gave out leaflets explaining why Muslim voters should vote for Labour instead of the #GreenParty in #LawrenceHill and other parts of the city. As I previously highlighted in my previous tweets, my concerns…
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If Hengrove Park is developed, the nearest cinema to south Bristol will be at Avonmeads 4 miles away nowhere near a bus service. Sustainable city design for the climate emergency?
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Corbyn motion passed at Bristol East CLP Zoom meeting last night: 89 people attended the meeting; 56 votes in favour. When does the regional office take over?
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2 years
Colston Four: to sum up the prosecution case: they spent 3 days proving the defendants had pulled down the statue, which they have admitted anyway and then pointed and said, "ooh look, they broke a bit of pavement".
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