Bristol Debates Where West End Voters Should Cast Ballots
Source: The Hartford Courant
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-19 00:07:53 -0700 | political-news
Rydingsward complained publicly that too many of the district's voters particularly the elderly can't easily get to the current polling place at West Bristol School. At a council meeting last week, she presented a petition signed by more than a...
$2.1M raised for Roger Williams sailing center
Source: The Boston Globe
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-15 00:25:46 -0700 | political-news
R.I. (AP) Roger Williams University has brought in $2.1 million to build a new sailing center and is now more than two-thirds to reaching the project's fundraising goal. The school says it raised $1.7 million at a live auction last...
Pre-exam breakfasts sent to schools
Source: BBC
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-13 04:12:14 -0700 | political-news
The free breakfasts are for children doing the Key Stage 2 tests taken by all pupils in their final year of primary school in England. The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) says too many pupils do not eat breakfast....
Big Brother star Josie Gibson in court to support grandmother who faces jail over drugs charges
Source: Mail Online UK
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-10 05:08:43 -0700 | political-news
Big Brother star Josie Gibson was in court to support her grandmother, who is facing jail for drug offences. The reality TV personality joined other members of her family at Bristol Crown Court yesterday to see Diane Gibson, 72, sentenced....
U.S. soldier is sucked out of plane when parachute accidentally opens
Source: Mail Online UK
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-09 05:00:40 -0700 | political-news
Ellis , Bristol, United Kingdom, 09/5/2013 12:57 Very lucky man! First, he wasn't facing in the direction of the reserve parachute when it deployed, so his entire body was snapped through ninety degrees when it pulled him out at 230kph...
Men bringing Blackshirts back to UK
Source: The Sun UK
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-07 18:00:04 -0700 | political-news
Right-wing extremists is trying to resurrect Sir Oswald Mosley's notorious British Union of Fascists from the 1930s. In the pre-war years the anti-Semitic organisation aligned itself with Nazi Germany and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, while Mosley's paramilitary Blackshirts terrorised...
'I was foolishly optimistic': What judge tells court after giving prolific teenage criminal a second ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-03 17:48:16 -0700 | political-news
56 Judge Wolstenholme should pay the 87 year old some serious compensation out of his own pocket. - Ginistera , Bristol, United Kingdom, 03/5/2013 15:08 At least this judge has admitted his mistake in not jailing this youth the first...
MPs decide to take ANOTHER two week break: Parliament's only been back for 10 days since their last ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-04-26 16:23:04 -0700 | political-news
A decade or so ago I asked an open question in my local paper to MPs asking them what they actually did...PC , Liverpool, United Kingdom, 26/4/2013 12:56 They are in effect OUR Employees...United Kingdom, 26/4/2013 12:55 Confirmation they don't...
Stuffed lynx provides conclusive evidence of big cats in Britain
Source: The New Zealand Herald
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-04-25 18:27:47 -0700 | political-news
From the Beast of Bodmin to the Essex lion, reports of big cats roaming the British countryside have been a "silly season" staple for years. The claims are generally dismissed as the invention of cranks and fantasists, but now academics...
Agency seeks to boost housing mix at Devens
Source: The Boston Globe
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-04-21 05:40:49 -0700 | political-news
A move to open up dozens of acres at Devens for home and apartment construction could nearly double the small but devoted residential community that has taken root at the former Army base. The Massachusetts Development Finance Agency plans next...
Randy Northrop's family lose council tax battle after judge rules floating home is permanent
Source: Mail Online UK
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-04-19 04:45:55 -0700 | political-news
Randy Northrop, 57, claims his floating home is not a permanent house and he is therefore not liable to pay rates to his local authority. But after a three-year legal battle the Court of Appeal yesterday ruled the boat is...
Rich Ricci: Fat cat Barclays banker retiring just weeks after pocketing i¿½18m shares windfall
Source: Mail Online UK
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-04-18 08:31:12 -0700 | political-news
SW66Bristol , Bristol, United Kingdom, 18/4/2013 15:04 The article the other day said rich people were more intelligent...The striving for the extra dosh makes them insecure, shallow. And always fearful of losing their money they have to amass more. Money...
City 'less democratic' under mayor
Source: BBC
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-04-18 02:15:26 -0700 | political-news
Political reporter BBC Bristol One third of the council's 70 seats are up for election on 2 May Bristol voters could be forgiven for suffering from election fatigue. Bristolians are once again being invited to the polling station to elect...
Support family carers says minister
Source: BBC
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-04-15 13:16:20 -0700 | political-news
Poor support for family carers unacceptable says minister BBC News family reporter Children in poor, inner-city areas are more likely to be raised by other family members, researchers say A government minister has dubbed "unacceptable" the lack of support for...
Robert Thomas, 59, 'plagued the lives' of a family by playing RADIO 4 at full volume
Source: Mail Online UK
Bristol :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-04-15 04:05:28 -0700 | political-news
Robert Thomas, 59, subjected the family next door to World Service news reports, documentaries and other music stations throughout the night. Stewart and Juliet Dunlop and their two teenage children were forced to wear earplugs to try and get some...
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