City of Bristol | News, Comment & Features

News / social media

What would every area of Bristol do if they were people at a house party?

A Reddit post has received some hilarious responses

News / Alfresco Disco

Secret location dance event granted premises licence

Alfresco Disco has held shows in quarries, warehouses and under railway arches

News / totterdown

Housing development will block Bristol’s views of ‘iconic’ colourful houses, say residents

Proposals for an 11-storey tower block are being met with outrage from Totterdown locals

News / bottle yard studios

£12m expansion at south Bristol film studios

Hawkfield Business Park is being turned into three new studio stages for the Bottle Yard

News / Bristol airport

‘Outrageous’, ‘disastrous’, ‘shameful’

Responses have been overwhelmingly negative to the government giving the green light for expansion

News / Edward Colston

Colston statue should remain on display in museum, commission finds

An overwhelming majority say it should enter the permanent collection of Bristol's museums

News / Stokes Croft Land Trust

Is community land ownership a feasible option for the future of Stokes Croft?

Stokes Croft Land Trust is hosting a free exhibition in the Vestibles

News / Criminal justice

Disproportionality in the criminal justice system laid bare in new report

The report sets out 83 recommendations for Avon & Somerset

News / Bristol airport

Decision to block Bristol Airport expansion overturned on appeal

The appeal decision has been branded “devastating” by opponents

News / Transport

Work starts to build Bristol’s first railway station in almost a century

Portway Park & Ride will link to the Severn Beach line

News / KNowle West

Council drops controversial housing plans for health park

Green space was under threat

News / western slopes

Council scales down housing plans for wildlife corridor

Only part of the site is now earmarked for new homes

News / markets

New market is coming to Bristol this Spring

It aims to showcase Bristol's best local food and drink producers

News / Transport

Rees: ‘There is no time to fail or delay’ on delivering mass transit system

“Tunnels may well be needed” below Temple Meads and Gloucester Road

News / Politics

Green Party by-election candidate says he is ‘proud of Southmead’s community’

Ed Burnham grew up in Southmead and works as an engineer in Filton

News / St Mary-le-Port

Public inquiry could decide fate of controversial St Mary le Port scheme

Bristol Civic Society have asked the government to "call in" the proposals

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