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Tristan Cork
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Chief Reporter, Bristol Post/Bristol Live.
News, football, housing crisis, funny stupid things. Not necessarily in that order.
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This week’s budget could give metro mayor @helengt76 the power to impose a ‘tourist tax’.
But what would it meann& should it include Airbnbs?
More here👇🏼

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What a 'tourist tax' would mean for Bristol
It could be a new measure announced in this week's Budget
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November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Nigel Farage and Reform UK are ‘a danger to Britain & British values’ says Bristol’s most senior Government MP.
Full story here👇🏼

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Reform 'a danger to Britain and British values' says top Bristol Labour MP
"We can't vilify people for being interested in Reform. We have to listen, we have to understand"
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November 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Nigel Farage and Reform UK are ‘a danger to Britain & British values’ says Bristol’s most senior Government MP.
Full story here👇🏼

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Reform 'a danger to Britain and British values' says top Bristol Labour MP
"We can't vilify people for being interested in Reform. We have to listen, we have to understand"
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November 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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In January, the council gave permission for 68 flats to be built on a riverside concrete fabrication works in Bristol, with ZERO %‘affordable’. Now tho…

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All the new apartments at riverside site will be 'affordable' after deal struck
Councillors gave permission despite there being no 'affordable housing' included, now it's going to be 100% 'affordable'
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November 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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From May to October, more than half the fire crews rushing to emergency incidents within the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood reported being delayed, an internal survey showed.
Residents are furious.
Full story here 👇🏼
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Fire crews delayed reaching emergencies within Liveable Neighbourhood
Local residents are furious
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November 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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"Travis Head on the pull, doesn't time it. They've conjured up a wicket from somewhere" - BBC ashes liveblog.
One of the barriers to people getting into cricket is that to do so you have to learn an entirely new language, ironically made up from a language you do already speak
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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The hunt for Eddie King Kinuthia’s killer began the night he was stabbed in Bristol.
He appeared, masked up, stabbed Eddie & vanished into the night.
A challenging case for @ASPolice, it took more than 2 years to see the killer found guilty.
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The two-year long investigation to catch Bristol teen's killer
The murder of Eddie Kinuthia was a challenge to solve
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November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The jury in the trial of 5 people charged with assisting the murderers of Max Dixon and Mason Rist in Bristol last year has heard one of the murderers was worried about making money if he was on the run...
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Double murderer 'worried about making money' as he went on run
The messages shared by those accused of helping the murderers of Max Dixon and Mason Rist escape
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November 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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BREAKING: Bristol city councillor resigns from the Green group
Full story here
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Councillor quits Greens over City Hall trans protests
It puts the Greens back below half the councillors at City Hall
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November 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Caravans and live-in vans on The Downs in Bristol will be moved after Bristol City Council finally deemed it is 'high impact'.
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Downs vehicle dwellers to be moved after being deemed 'high impact'
The council said several sites were being used as organised toilet facilities
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November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Two months after putting up a fence around their playing fields, Cotham School reports ‘significant’ & ‘morally reprehensible’ vandalism.
We Love Stoke Lodge accuse headteacher of ‘inflammatory & misleading claims’.
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War of words with local residents as Bristol school's new fence vandalised
The school's headteacher said the damage is 'morally reprehensible'
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November 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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There’s now a detailed planning application for 260 new homes on one of the most controversial green field development sites in Bristol.
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Controversial development of Bristol meadows moves closer
'We’re pleased to have reached this important milestone'
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November 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Is Bristol England's most unequal city?
For the first time in 6 years, the Government has divided up England into 33,755 neighbourhoods & ranked them based on wealth, health, jobs etc
A few parts of Bristol are in the top 0.3%, some in the bottom 0.6%
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Stark inequality and deprivation in Bristol laid bare
For the first time in six years, the Government has produced street-by-street rankings of socio-economic deprivation
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November 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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What’s the next big test for Bristol City Council…. A test of whether officers are in charge or councillors… whether the council can be transparent & represent what communities want…? It’s an old youth club building in South Bristol…
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Battle lines drawn over future of former youth club visited by royalty
"We clearly have a very passionate community with the will and the drive to make it happen here"
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November 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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What’s the next big test for Bristol City Council…. A test of whether officers are in charge or councillors… whether the council can be transparent & represent what communities want…? It’s an old youth club building in South Bristol…
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Battle lines drawn over future of former youth club visited by royalty
"We clearly have a very passionate community with the will and the drive to make it happen here"
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November 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Scores of counter protesters have already gathered on Redcliff Hill to defend a converted hotel now used for housing asylum seekers, as a ‘Bristol Patriots’ protest is due there shortly.
Updates here👇🏼
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November 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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After the defection of a Labour cllr to the Greens at City Hall, there's new changes to Bristol's post-mayor committee system which reflects the new reality that the Greens have exactly half the 70 cllrs.
Complicated, but the Greens have more power now
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'Chaos' as Greens take effective overall control of Bristol
They will now run the city on the casting votes of committee chairs
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November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Heads up that there will be an anti-immigration protest in Redcliffe on Saturday, along with a counter-protest too.
Here's the full details
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Police warning ahead of Bristol asylum hotel protest this weekend
Counter-protesters are vowing to defend the converted hotel
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November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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I was at Bristol Magistrates Court today, as seven young men aged between 19 and 22 were charged with rapes, attempted rapes, sexual assault, sexual exploitation, and supplying drugs involving girls between the ages of 14 and 17
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LIVE: Bristol grooming gang suspects appear in court
They face a total of more than 40 charges
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November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Bristol Labour has restored the party whip at City Hall to a councillor suspended as an allegedly racist Facebook comment was investigated. His restoration has sparked another row with the Greens
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Labour restore councillor after 'racist Facebook post' row
“It is now totally clear what kind of party Labour are"
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November 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Bristol music legend & Portishead co-founder @jetfury.bsky.social Geoff Barrow's first steps into movie production here, with @sleafordmods.bsky.social frontman Jason Williamson in a film shot in & around Bristol.
At @wshed.bsky.social for a Q&A too
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Bristol music legend writes 'dark' horror filmed around the city
The 1990s rave scene was never this dark
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November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Film-maker Paul Holbrook's latest film will have a lead who's a teenage lad, and he is passionate about giving local undiscovered talent a go.
If you know a teen lad in South Bristol who would love to have a crack at this opportunity, let them know.

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Search to find unknown South Bristol teen actor for major movie role
"We would like to meet young people in South Bristol who have a burning desire to pursue a career in acting, but don’t know where to start"
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November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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In the same week cttee chair @stephenwi11iams.bsky.social confirmed professional dog walkers would be charged to use Bristol's parks, one professional dog walker had to take refuge in a river, to stay away from 2 masked hoodlums on a motorbike in a Bristol park
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Masked teen bikers force dog walker into river in Bristol park
"The council are going to make me pay for this when they can't even make it safe"
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November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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They've been making Bristol Blue Glass in Bristol for centuries. It's why the city's taxis are all a lovely shade of blue.
Now, the last remaining blueglass firm is being evicted & a campaign has begun calling on the council to do more to save them
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Save Bristol Blue Glass campaign begins as 'unthinkable' closure looms
'We are calling on Bristol City Council leaders to redouble their efforts to help save this business'
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November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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They've been making Bristol Blue Glass in Bristol for centuries. It's why the city's taxis are all a lovely shade of blue.
Now, the last remaining blueglass firm is being evicted & a campaign has begun calling on the council to do more to save them
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Save Bristol Blue Glass campaign begins as 'unthinkable' closure looms
'We are calling on Bristol City Council leaders to redouble their efforts to help save this business'
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November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM