📢 Sam Gregory | bsky.app/profile/sammgreg.bsky 's story on the Market Tavern "collapse" has been picked up by Private Eye in this week's issue, including a shout-out for our investigation. Thanks Private Eye Magazine! 🫶

Cabinet lead for Housing Kye Dudd went to Barton House for a staged press interview today. But the residents started asking him questions, and after they were pushed aside, Dudd literally ran away. Kye Dudd why are you running away?

Update 2 ‼️ the bad news is the council have just said they intend to push on with further works on the crematorium expansion without dormice surveys and they have no intention of withdrawing the application. We absolutely will fight this! I’ll update with how you can help asap

We have a petition now! Please sign and share everywhere! The council and cabinet members like @CllrEllieking think they can get away with shifting the blame. Let’s show them they can’t get away with destroying Yew Tree Farm and the dormice that live there chng.it/NvkXqJ5cFz

“amazing tree-lined streets” Thanks everybody who fought the Labour ran council on this.

"It’s the idea that there may be no planning enforcement taking place over the summer."

The ‘top level boss’ seagull that’s stealing lunches and dominating part of Liverpool liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…

@CllrEllieking Marley You 'politicians' seem to limit the time you spend responding to emails too.

If you're in a hole and start shovelling, that's not going to help.

This is a very good piece about Marvin Rees and his loathing of the local media. "For local journalists, the hope will be that a new era of local democracy in Bristol will mean they no longer end up being the headline." Amen to that. medium.com/behind-local-n…

Surely it's only news if the parties say there's a coalition, not a Labour Party press release stating they're incapable of playing nice with others. That's the news here, Labour can't cooperate. They're institutionally incapable.

Until Labour Bristol grows up and learns to work cooperatively then you should become as irrelevant as the Reform party in Bristol.

I hate it when I go out for a walk as an independent, non-Labour affiliated councillor and I slip and accidentally trip into a labour campaigning photoshoot holding a large sign saying “vote Labour”

At what point did the conservatives give up campaigning to win?

I suspect dealing with the council's finances at this level needs a deeper level of understanding than 'it's bad' 🤔🤔 Maybe you should have allowed the other parties full view of the books or would that have been too much transparency?

After reading this it is starting to make sense why this FOI is so delayed. whatdotheyknow.com/request/subjec…

Could have been written about Sheffield. These are our experiences of a strong leader - and a shoddy council - in Bristol. I wrote the tree chapter Marcus Combie Ruth Hubbard

Everyone at the Grantham Centre was deeply saddened to hear about the tragic passing of GT 🍃💚🍃, founder of Clean Air Sheffield. Graham was an inspiring campaigner & a fantastic person who we were very grateful to have speak at our Festival of Debate 2025 2024 event. He will be sorely missed.

What I don’t understand saga about Market Tavern is how the council thought it “spontaneously collapsed” - when a senior engineer is calling the site workers a telling them to stop the demolition. Now Then Magazine