Bristol International Airport (BIA) has applied for planning permission to expand. This development aims to increase passengers by 60% by 2016, increase passenger flights by 40%, summer night flights by 50%, car journeys by over 2m per year, and carbon emissions by at least 40%. Time to stop the carbon-expansion madness! read full story / add a comment

Adapted from local councillor Jon Roger's email... read full story / add a comment

Nick Davies’s Flat Earth News, a scathing account of contemporary media, ‘churnalism’ and the future of news reporting, was announced last night as the winner of the first Festival of Ideas Book Prize. The prize – worth £10,000 – is awarded annually to the book which presents new, important and challenging ideas, which is rigorously argued, and which is engaging and accessible. read full story / add a comment

for your reading pleasure... read full story / add a comment

Toff, stokes croft newsletter on pdf. read full story / add a comment

PRSC Newsletter with news about Stokes Croft read full story / add a comment

Re-posting a great article that looks at the evening Post's treatment of G20 protesters and how it 'edits' information to display its own view-point. Also it takes loads of content from this site to do it! read full story / add a comment

Lots of news from the Ashley Ward of Bristol. read full story / add a comment

Seen this? Apparently Bristol is named in a guide as being one of the top places to visit in 2009 - judge for yourself... read full story / add a comment

The council has made available energy meters from the library so you can borrow one and see how much energy you are using! read full story / add a comment

FWed email from the council with update progress with the Bristol Development
Framework Site Allocations. read full story / add a comment

Stop the fash at every turn! read full story / add a comment

The Secretary of State has proposed that additional homes are
built in Bristol over the next 20 years - over and above the amount
previously agreed by the regional assembly and planned for by the
council. The ‘Core Strategy Preferred Options Review’ will set out
proposals for how the new homes could be accommodated in the city.

The consultation period lasts for eight weeks, commencing on 27th
February and ending on Friday 24th April 2009. The Preferred Options
Review, as well as an on-line response form and Sustainability Appraisal
Update Note, are available to view on the council’s website
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/bdf. Further community involvement activities are
set out in the 'Community Involvement Programme' below... read full story / add a comment

It is sad to report that Thursday 12 February is the last edition of
the Weston & Worle News, which won the Free Newspaper of the Year
title at last year's EDF Energy South West Media Awards. read full story / add a comment

Check out the St.Pauls, Bristol; game made by young people from the area. read full story / add a comment

If you'd not heard, dubstep is pretty big in Bristol and not the city's newest music scene gets a bit of a national big-up as Radio 1's Mary-Anne Hobbs explores the scene! read full story / add a comment

Latest developments re. Urban Village School for Ashley Ward. from http://urban-village-school.blogspot.com/
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As you may have heard by now, Stop Bristol Airport Expansion lost our case at North Somerset Council’s South Area meeting last Wednesday, with councillors voting to allow BIA’s ‘walkway’ to go ahead without having to seek full planning permission. read full story / add a comment

**Apple orchards, not executive flats!*
*Wed 3 December, 7-9pm*
Hamilton House, Stokes Croft read full story / add a comment

REPRESENTATION/MISREPRESENTATION/NO REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN THE MEDIA
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