• The DogBlog with Bertie Bassett

  By DaffyDuckIe

  That was lovely! Can we here more from the DogBlog please?

            

   

  By thepickler at 15:51 on 23/01/12

  

  I DON'T know about other dogs, but I would pretty much do anything for a sausage. I will sit, wait, look cute and perhaps even put up my paw in a pathetic attempt to get my chops around this treat of lovely meatiness. It is on this basis that mum, in her wisdom, has started keeping sausages in the bathroom. On the suggestion of a friend who noticed my liking for the meaty treats, they have now ended up in the enamel, white evil...

• Overhead pylons are the 'cheapest option'

  By DaffyDuckIe

  Overhead cables = fried duck! Yeeps!!!! Daffy Duckie xxx

            

   

  By thepickler at 08:35 on 01/02/12

  

  A SPECIALIST engineering report investigating the costs of installing a new power line across the North Somerset countryside has revealed that overhead cables are the cheapest option. The Infrastructure Planning Committee (IPC) commissioned the report to look at the cost of various options of installing a new 400,000 volt power line from Avonmouth to Hinkley Point. The report has been put together by the Institute of Engineering...

• Dog rescued after 45-minute ordeal in icy pond

  By Dingslady

  Yes, it is just as well the owner didn't go in after the dog if it took 45 minutes for the emergency...

            

   

  By Bristol Evening Post at 05:00 on 04/02/12

  

  A DOG was rescued by firefighters after spending 45 minutes stuck in a freezing cold pond. Collie/Jack Russell cross Clifford was being walked by his owner along Wharf Lane in Portbury when he fell through ice on the frozen-over pond. The incident happened yesterday morning at around 10.30am. His owner immediately dialled 999 but when firefighters arrived with an inflatable rescue sled Clifford had been treading water for around 45...

• Bristol housing development ND10@The Zone enters final stage after four-year stagnation

  By PROPSreal

  Did they build any social housing ? if so where? and in what amount? if not, then why?

            

   

  By Bristol Evening Post at 05:00 on 03/02/12

  

  WORK has begun on the final phase of a housing development in Temple Quay. ND10@The Zone is the last block of Barratt Homes' flagship development in the city centre, completing a plan first outlined ten years ago by housebuilder Barratt Homes. Barratt is building 131 one, two and three-bedroom flats on a site between Anvil Street and New Kingsley Road that could be up to six storeys high. Home owners will have the use of an on-site...

• Concern over future of two empty pubs

  By PossetPower

  I agree wholeheartily with the first comment. Despite residents continually raising at Town Council...

            

   

  By Bristol Evening Post at 05:00 on 02/02/12

  

  TWO Portishead pubs which have been vacant for several months could be sold off. The White Lion in the High Street, once a water mill, and the Royal Oak at West Hill both closed last June. The pubs – once popular watering holes in the growing town – have remained boarded up ever since, prompting concern about their long term future. Rumours have been circulating the town that if no new licensee can be found to take on...

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