Bristol in the news over the weekend
Desert Island Disks with Alice Roberts, anatomist and biological anthropologist, author and broadcaster, and Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. Roberts was born in Bristol in 1973 — you can listen for 26 more days. A snippet:
“My first choice is the Pixies and its Monkey Gone to Heaven and I remember hearing it the first time on a jukebox in a pub at the bottom of Park Street in Bristol with my friend Catherine and I was blown away. It reached inside me and grabbed me by the heart and filled me with this incredible passion for music.” BBC Radio 4 - 11:20 AM GMT
Liveable neighbourhoods are an insult, says Simon Armstrong from Bristol in the Telegraph.
There’s a painful and poignant story in the Independent on Sunday about knife crime. Hayley Ryall is leading a campaign against knife crime in the name of her son, Mikey, who was stabbed to death at a 16th birthday party in Bath. Mikey lived in Kingswood. A trial at Bristol Crown Court concluded the boy who stabbed Mikey was guilty of murder and his two friends were guilty of manslaughter.
A woman almost bought a house in Bristol before noticing it had bamboo. Apparently this is now a problem. “NHS worker Lois Connelly withdrew her offer after her sister spotted invasive bamboo planted in the front and back garden” (published on several news outlets).
A letter in the Times, behind a paywall, talks about statues having no right to stand forever. Usefully for Bristol it points out that discussions had been going on for years before the toppling.
"Let's talk before we topple"? There was endless talk and deliberate delay and obfuscation over Colston's statue. This is why direct action was so thoroughly justified. Richard Carter, London