By Lydia Sherlock
Obesity is a growing (excuse the pun) problem in the UK, especially in children.
Obesity levels have trebled since the 1980s and a 2007 study carried out for the Department of Health predicts that if current trends continue, 60% of men and 50% of women will be obese by 2050. One in [...]
A Bristol horse sanctuary is opening the stable doors to its welfare department in September, to allow the public to see where its rescued horses are nursed back to health.
Charity HorseWorld is opening the doors of its welfare section for one day on September 19, 12noon-4pm.
HorseWorld groom, Sarah Hollister, said: “It is lovely to be [...]
Bombs, attack dogs and demonstrations – a brave Bristol student has shared her experiences of a dramatic gap year travelling in the Middle East.
Hari O’Brien has just returned two months in Palestine and Israel, where she has been touring the notorious West Bank.
The 20-year-old student from Sea Mills was taking part in her gap-year travels, and will [...]
A round up of news from across Bristol and Bath, including the three Bristol students who get to travel to India this year for the Commonwealth Games. And Big Brother 11 winner Josie shows her charitable side and a manhole cover causes problems for motorists around Whitehall.
Josie gives £20,000 to Bristol charity
The recent Big Brother [...]
By Josh Pitts
A new partnership signed between Bristol Rugby and the University of the West of England will ensure talented young players in the West do not miss out on a higher education.
Bristol Rugby club CEO Steve Gorvett and UWE Vice-Chancellor Steve West shook hands on 25 August on an agreement which gives up [...]
As William Congreve wrote ‘music has charms to soothe the savage breast, soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.’… It seems now there may be some truth in this, given the results of a Government-funded scheme, ‘Music in Time’, a major success in five prisons in the West.
Prisoners who’d become withdrawn and socially isolated in [...]
You’ve got until Sunday to have an end-of-season wardrobe clearout and help a good cause, with Cabot Circus Bristol’s BIG Donation event.
Dig out your unloved, unworn clothes to help restock the charity shops of the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to help fight the UK’s biggest killer – heart disease.
Heart disease claims the lives of 200,000 [...]
House prices in Bristol and the South West remain among the highest in the country, and are making life increasingly difficult for people relocating to the region, new figures show.
The South West Housing Initiative, the region’s unique partnership of housing providers, housing professions, and employers, says the region also has the nation’s biggest concentrations of [...]
Bristol’s Josie Gibson is the last-ever winner of Big Brother – and has gone back in the house to compete with celebrities in ‘Ultimate Big Brother’.
The bubbly blonde, from Westerleigh, beat out student Andrew, pro boxer JJ Bird, former mole Mario Mugan and Christian minister Dave Vaughan.
Josie had been 1-2 prior to the quadruple eviction [...]
Bath City stars showed off their skills to support Oxfam’s ‘Don’t Drop the Ball’ campaign before Saturday’s home match against York City.
Members of the team were out on the pitch at Twerton Park to take time out to practice their ‘keepy-uppys’. Joined by Oxfam activists cheering them on, their skills were filmed and will be [...]
