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If you haven’t already started booking your holidays, then what are you waiting for? We’ve seen (what feels like) the first glimmers of sun this week in Bristol and our first thought has been: Summer. We’ll be trying to...
If you’ve visited London recently, you may have stopped by a cute little artisanal bakery called Gail’s – offering fresh bread, handmade pastries and speciality coffee. Where is it? Oh, just on pretty much every s...
Need to iron a shirt for a special occasion, but don’t know your neighbours well enough to ask? Or how about a drill to finally fit that bookshelf, but no one in your family owns one either… There’s no longer a need to...
Let’s face it: Life is bleak this time of year. Waking up in the dark, finishing work in the dark, a day can go by in the blink of an eye. And after living through the wettest February on record, with March not lo...
What to do with a 100-year-old statue of a Bristol-born philanthropist and trans-Atlantic slave trader? It’s been the question the city has been trying to answer ever since the bronze Edward Colston statue was toppled b...
Picture it: A six-piece brass band made up of some of Bristol’s best musicians playing their way down North Street in a New Orleans-style pavement parade. All before stopping for a night of free music at the Tobacco Fac...
Believed to have come from Spanish and Portuguese Jewish immigrants, fish ‘n’ chips has become a defining dish of Britain – with a chippy on most high streets. We love fish and chips in this country. Not least of...
Eagle-eyed Bristolians may have already worked this one. Teasing billboards for this year’s Forwards Festival (‘“Bristol, I love you but you’re bringing me down…” and “Take these words and go forwards…”) seemed to hint...
It’s been more than two decades since the release of Bridget Jones’s Diary, an iconic romantic comedy for the ages. But according to reports, Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant are set to reunite for a fourth f...
It’s arguably the biggest date in the Bristol calendar and the biggest balloon event in the UK. But some even bigger changes are happening at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta in 2024. The usually four-day-long festival will...