The Bristol Cycling Campaign wishes to extend its deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the cyclist who died following a collision with a lorry on Winterstoke Road on Tuesday August 11.

This tragedy is part of a series of bicycle/lorry collisions in the city over the past week. read full story / add a comment

We knew that putting the plans for BRT down the railway path "on the shelf" meant they could be picked up in the future -we just weren't expecting it to be so soon. At Tuesday night's Bristol City Council meeting, the green and lib dem amended motion to keep BRT off the path got watered down enough to leave BRT-on-path as an option. read full story / add a comment

Given the news that the council has apparently halted plans to run Bus Rapid Transit down the Bristol-Bath Railway Path, you might think we can declare that we have won and that our work is done. This not yet the case. We want as many people as possible to come out Sunday March 30, to show they like the path left alone.
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The Liberal Democrat MP for Bristol West, Stephen Williams, has decided to join the side of the record companies in his signing of an early day motion "COPYRIGHT TERM FOR PRODUCERS AND PERFORMERS". In this motion, he and the other signatories ask the government to ignore all the work done by the recent Gowers report on intellectual property, and extend the copyright on audio recordings to 70 years after the death of the musicians, rather than a straightforward 50 years. read full story / add a comment