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Help the Fight to Protect our High Street & Win Great Prizes!

TRASHorfield are still fundraising ! The judicial review is on the 13th and 14th March and we still have a few thousand more to raise to ensure we can cover our costs. We have raised…
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Local Businesswoman Joins Prison Campaign

  A REDLAND businesswoman has visited a prison with a team of women from a voluntary organisation as part of a campaign to reduce women's custodial sentences. Helen Davies (left in the photo), who runs…
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Missing Local Dog - Please can you help!

I have been contacted by an extremely worried local resident who would like to give this appeal re their missing family pet. Please can you get in touch if you spot our dog Buster? He…
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Ablectrics are 40!

In 1974 at the start of the 3 day week, Andy Besant started Ablectrics Electrical Contractors. In 1986, he opened this very shop, and it has been going strong ever since. To celebrate their Birthday…
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Please do your bit with recycling

Bishopston Matters has been contacted by Year 11 student Ashleigh Thomson with the request to publish the below article as part of her studies. Please read her feature on recycling below. It may seem that…
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Off To Wed Wedding Fair

Off To Wed is running its first Bristol based wedding fair at the Paintworks Event Space on Sunday 23 February. With its modern, stylish approach to a wedding fair, Off To Wed will advise and…
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Gardeners' World would like to hear from you

Are you new to gardening and planning to get to grips with your garden for the first time this year? Have you recently moved house and inherited an overgrown jungle or unpromising patch? If you…
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Bristol's oldest opticians practice celebrates 80 years!

One of Bristol's oldest opticians' practices situated on Wells Road, Knowle has celebrated being in business for 80 years and helping the sight of thousands of Bristolians. The practice is currently owned by Lynne Fernandes…
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Local French teacher bringing renewed energy to language learning

Local French teacher Alice Watson shares with us some thoughts on language below. Have you ever felt demoralised on holiday when a waiter has effortlessly slipped into perfect English to rescue your valiant but ineffective…
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Award winning play investigates the nature of genius

A modern Pullitzer prize winning play which examines the nature of genius, is the latest production from Bristol theatre company the Kelvin Players. Written by David Auburn, Proof looks at one woman's struggles to reach…
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