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• Premiership: Bath 13-19 Harlequins - Quins hold-off hosts for fourth win in a row

  02-12-2022 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Harlequins beat Bath 19-13 to extend their Premiership winning streak to four matches at the Recreation Ground.
  
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• Bristol: Single women and transgender people to get fertility treatment

  02-12-2022 20:44 via bbc.co.uk
  The local care board changes its policy to make fertility treatments more available to more people.
  
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• Bristol: Fossil shows lizards millions of years older than thought

  02-12-2022 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  A scientist says the fossil is "one of the most important found in the last few decades".
  
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• Only Fools and Horses auction: John Challis items sell for thousands

  02-12-2022 19:46 via bbc.co.uk
  'Del's cigar jar' and a bottle of 'Peckham Spring water' formed part of the John Challis collection.
  
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• Banksy mural reportedly 'stolen' from war-torn Ukrainian town

  02-12-2022 17:51 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Reports suggest that those who took it have been caught
  
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• Life sentence for woman who murdered lodger in Glastonbury

  02-12-2022 17:36 via avonandsomerset.police.uk
  The son of a tenant murdered by his landlord in Glastonbury earlier this year has talked of how the incident prevented him from meeting his estranged father. Dawn Lewis, 54, fatally stabbed her 61-year-old lodger Glenn Richards at her home on 18 April. Yesterday (Thursday 1 December) she was found guilty of his murder and today received a life sentence at Bristol Crown Court. One of Mr Richards’...
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• Girls Don't Sync UK Tour - Bristol - 25th Feb at Green Works, Bristol ... - Resident Advisor

  02-12-2022 17:29
  
  Girls Don't Sync UK Tour - Bristol - 25th Feb at Green Works, Bristol ...  Resident Advisor
  
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• Avon & Somerset Police detective faces misconduct hearing over child sex offence

  02-12-2022 16:56 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The officer is no longer serving with the force
  
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• Semi Radradra: Bristol's Fiji centre to make long-awaited injury return

  02-12-2022 16:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Bristol director of rugby Pat Lam says Semi Radradra's return to action after a knee injury will give his side a lift.
  
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• Fertility treatment on Bristol NHS to be extended to single women and transgender people

  02-12-2022 16:06 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Upper age limit drops from 40 to 39 as policy found to be "discriminatory" against some groups
  
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• UK's first audio guide for blind people launched in Bristol - BBC

  02-12-2022 15:57
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• UK's first audio guide for blind people launched in Bristol

  02-12-2022 15:57 via bbc.co.uk
  The guide is the first in the UK to help blind and partially-sighted people navigate train stations.
  
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• ‘Every day I awake at 4am with cold sweat, paralysed with fear’ – fraud victim

  02-12-2022 15:51 via avonandsomerset.police.uk
  This is the business impact statement submitted by Max Punni whose pharmacy business lost £1.3million through the fraud carried out by Darren McKenzie: This crime has left me and my pharmacy company struggling for survival in arguably the toughest financial climate since the Second World War. We have sustained a financial loss of more than £1million, so one outrageous individual could live a...
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• Fraudster jailed after stealing £1.3m from employer to fund lavish lifestyle

  02-12-2022 15:49 via avonandsomerset.police.uk
  A man who stole more than £1.3million from his friend and employer and spent it on luxury holidays, designer goods and home renovations has been jailed for five years and eight months. Darren Mackenzie, of Fownes Road, Minehead, was bookkeeper for his friend Max Punni’s chain of pharmacies when he used the company’s money to fund his extravagant lifestyle. The 41-year-old was sentenced at Taunton...
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• I tried Greggs vegan Festive Bake and a regular Festive Bake to see which was best

  02-12-2022 15:21 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  As Christmas gets closer businesses are bring out their festive menus and Greggs is no different
  
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• £500,000 cash boost will be spent on progressing long-delayed Redcliffe Wharf redevelopment plan

  02-12-2022 15:11 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  One of the issues with the site is the need to relocate a Victorian water main
  
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• Railway regulator approves rival train operator to run new mainline services via Bristol Parkway

  02-12-2022 14:28 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Grand Union Trains hopes to launch the service in two years time
  
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• Bristol Temple Meads becomes the first train station in the country to release an audio map for blind people

  02-12-2022 14:17 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Network Rail teamed up with a local charity to produce 12 audio guides to help visually impaired people navigate Bristol Temple Meads
  
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• Trains calling at Bristol Parkway between Christmas and New Year disrupted by works

  02-12-2022 14:03 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Buses will replace trains between Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway
  
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• CCTV appeal launched after group 'graffiti' Bearpit

  02-12-2022 13:16 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Police are looking for three people who might have information about the incident
  
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• The Kooks confirmed as headline act for Valley Fest 2023 near Bristol

  02-12-2022 12:56 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Festival-goers are also in for a treat with demonstrations and feasts from top Bristol chefs
  
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• Carol Vorderman pulls out of This Morning as she issues flu update to fans

  02-12-2022 12:53 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The maths whizz said she feels 'rough' four days into having the flu as she updated fans in her dressing gown
  
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• Heart attack victims in Bristol are left waiting over an hour for an ambulance on average

  02-12-2022 12:42 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The south west has some of the longest ambulance waiting times in the country
  
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• 'Pyrotechnic device' posted through Bristol letterbox

  02-12-2022 12:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Police are releasing a CCTV image of a man who officers want to identify.
  
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• CCTV appeal launched following criminal damage in Bristol

  02-12-2022 11:39 via avonandsomerset.police.uk
  We are appeal for the public’s help to identify these three people. Officers believe the three people in the images above may have information which could aid our investigation into criminal damage at the Bear Pit, near St James Barton Roundabout, in Bristol. The people in the CCTV are described as: A white man, aged 18-22, with short, black hair. He is shown wearing a black hooded jumper and blue...
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• Bristol Christmas lights family set £100k charity target

  02-12-2022 11:32 via bbc.co.uk
  The Brailsford family has been lighting up their neighbourhood every year since 1994.
  
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• Good Morning Britain's Ben Shephard tells Kate Garraway to 'be quiet' as he is branded 'patronising' by viewers

  02-12-2022 11:23 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The interaction happened on today's episode of Good Morning Britain as the pair discussed Japan's controversial goal against Spain during last night's World Cup match in Qatar
  
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• Bristol: Upfest will not be held in 2023 due to rising costs

  02-12-2022 11:10 via bbc.co.uk
  The organisers of Upfest, which brings 50,000 people to Bristol, say rising costs are to blame.
  
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• Upfest 2023 cancelled amid cost of living crisis

  02-12-2022 10:22 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  There are still high hopes for 2024
  
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• UK's first audio guide for blind people launched in Bristol - bbc.com

  02-12-2022 09:00
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• Bristol Temple Meads launches audio guide in UK railway station ... - RailBusinessDaily

  02-12-2022 09:00
  
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• Bristol dad stabbed ex-partner nine times in front of their child

  02-12-2022 08:54 via bbc.co.uk
  A 26-year-old has been jailed for attempted murder at Bristol Crown Court.
  
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• Game of Thrones star backs Bristol youth food project

  02-12-2022 07:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Maisie Williams, who played Arya Stark, supports a scheme that sees young people given free food boxes.
  
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• Bristol actor stars in new Netflix film The Swimmers

  02-12-2022 07:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Elmi Rashid Elmi plays Bilal in the Netflix film The Swimmers, which is based on a true story.
  
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• Children's hospital in Bristol sees huge demand as mum reports 'queues in corridor'

  02-12-2022 06:00 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The hospital is seeing "exceptionally high numbers of babies and children with winter viral respiratory conditions"
  
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• 'Owning a home in the next 10 years seems like an impossible dream for me'

  02-12-2022 05:40 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  A the cost-of-living crisis bites one millennial reflects on whether home ownership is permanently out of reach
  
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• Skeleton World Cup: Marcus Wyatt and Laura Deas claim bronze medals

  02-12-2022 00:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Great Britain's Marcus Wyatt continues his superb start to skeleton World Cup season with a bronze in Utah, matching the result of compatriot Laura Deas.
  
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• Scottish Open 2022: Judd Trump beats Xiao Guodong to reach quarter-finals

  02-12-2022 00:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Judd Trump survives a scare to beat Xiao Guodong and reach the quarter-finals of the Scottish Open in Edinburgh.
  
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