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• Met Office explains when temperatures will rise this month

  19-10-2026 10:11 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Last night was the coldest of the season so far
  
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• School absence fines 'scrapped' update as UK Government responds

  20-10-2026 08:47 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Campaigners want change
  
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• A38 crash outside Bristol Airport causing traffic delays - updates

  20-10-2026 08:40 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The busy route is partially blocked
  
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• Tax rise update from Chancellor John Healey ahead of October 28 Budget

  20-10-2026 07:11 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The Chancellor will deliver his first Budget next week
  
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• Worrying number of Bristol youngsters not showing up for school

  20-10-2026 07:00 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Bristol has one of the worst rates in England
  
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• E-bike menace and priest basher dealt by Bristol magistrates

  20-10-2026 07:00 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Here's our round-up of what's been happening in Bristol's lower court
  
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• Bristol's most campaigned-about tree finally to get the chop

  20-10-2026 07:00 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The first successful campaign to save it was in the 1920s
  
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• Bristol needs to act now to avoid repeat of summer chaos

  20-10-2026 07:00 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Schools closed, bins weren't collected and a wildfire shut the motorway
  
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• Bristol housing crisis warning as locals plead ‘stop objecting and start building’

  20-10-2026 07:00 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The housing crisis has been described as the 'biggest threat' to Bristol's continued economic growth
  
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• Chaotic Christa Pike's execution revealed as 911 didn't believe she was alive

  19-10-2026 22:57 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Christa Pike's lawyer dialled 911 herself amid the chaos of the failed execution
  
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• Huge metallic object found in Minnesota cornfield amid space debris investigation

  19-10-2026 22:37 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  An 11-foot metallic object has been discovered in a Minnesota cornfield, with officials from the Stevens County Sheriff's Office investigating whether it could be space debris [World Story]
  
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• Islamist terrorist who travelled to join Daesh jailed for 12 years

  19-10-2026 18:34 via avonandsomerset.police.uk
  
  Press release shared on behalf of Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) *** An Islamist extremist who travelled to Somalia to join the terrorist group Daesh has been sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment. Mohamed Mohamoud, of Francombe Grove, Horfield, Bristol, was sentenced today (Monday 19 October) at a hearing at the Central Criminal Court. The 22-year-old was found…
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• Man slashed with knife on Bristol Bridge sparks police appeal

  19-10-2026 17:45 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Police are appealing for help after a man was slashed with a knife in Bristol city centre.
  
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• Heartbreak for Bristol chippy owner as it closes for good

  19-10-2026 17:00 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  He'd been struggling for a long time to keep it going
  
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• Police update after fire broke out near Little Stoke community centre

  19-10-2026 16:56 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The road was closed
  
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• Appeal after Bristol city centre assaults

  19-10-2026 16:35 via avonandsomerset.police.uk
  
  Officers investigating the assault of a man and a woman in Bristol city centre have released an image of a man they want to speak to. The victims were assaulted on Bristol Bridge just after 8pm on Wednesday 8 July. The woman was punched in the face before the man was slashed with a knife. Thankfully they both only suffered minor injuries and did not require hospital treatment.
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• New vision for empty Lockleaze wasteland

  19-10-2026 16:25 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The site at the heart of the community has been empty for seven years
  
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• Bristol man who 'did everything he could to join IS' jailed

  19-10-2026 16:22 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  He was offered a job as a “spy” but turned it down because it was not a combat role in the “killing zone”
  
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• Designer of giant £4bn gigafactory off M5 opens new office for 200 staff

  19-10-2026 16:07 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The factory will be the largest of its kind in Britain
  
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• Binman warns 'we won't take it' if you don't do one thing

  19-10-2026 14:50 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Finding your wheelie bin still full after collection day can be frustrating, but the reason why may be simple
  
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• Symptoms of cardiovascular disease according to NHS after as Davina McCall diagnosed

  19-10-2026 14:47 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Davina McCall has shared that she has cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a new health update after overcoming breast cancer and a brain tumour
  
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• Jury inquest to examine whether student's meningitis death 'was preventable'

  19-10-2026 14:40 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Megan Draper, 18, died of meningitis in October 2025 after falling ill during her first term at Bournemouth University
  
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• West's biggest slaughterhouse expansion in limbo as global campaign rages on

  19-10-2026 14:32 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  It has triggered objections from around the world
  
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• Lloyds Bank shares details of 'digital only' customer account change

  19-10-2026 13:46 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Customers need to take action ahead of an October deadline
  
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• Readers debate Bristol 20mph zones as one blasts them as 'ridiculous'

  19-10-2026 13:23 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  'Let the moaning commence'
  
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• Extreme weather to hit South West with 'danger to life' winds and heavy rain

  19-10-2026 12:48 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The Met Office says wind gusts of up to 70mph could be reached
  
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• Autumn weather to hit South West with 'danger to life' winds and heavy rain expected

  19-10-2026 12:48 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  The Met Office says wind gusts of up to 70mph could be reached
  
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• New staff sought as Bristol pub shuts for major transformation

  19-10-2026 12:40 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  There are a range of opportunities
  
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• Taunton fatal collision enquiry update

  19-10-2026 12:25 via avonandsomerset.police.uk
  
  Our enquiries into a collision in Taunton in which a teenage boy died have led to an arrest and the seizure of a vehicle. Emergency services were called to the collision on East Reach at about 10.20pm on Thursday 1 October. An electric motorbike with two riders was in collision with a car which had stopped at traffic lights near the junction with Haydon Road. Tragically, a 16-year-old…
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• Average Brit now tracks four wellness metrics every day - here's why

  19-10-2026 12:19 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  A survey suggests the average Brit now tracks four daily health habits – from sleep and fibre intake to steps and water – with sleep monitoring alone up 108% in five years
  
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