Thursday 12 November 6 – 8pm, Arnolfini Bookshop.

Please join us for the launch of the All I Want For Christmas Cards 2009 project in support of ‘Young Bristol’.

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With efforts by the Labour government to suppress evidence of collusion with the United States threatened with collapse, the head of Britain’s secret service, MI5, last week made a public defence of the use of torture to obtain evidence against alleged terrorists.

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A turning point in Hollywood’s history will be marked in Bristol on Wednesday 9 September at Colston Hall when comic actor and writer SANJEEV BHASKAR hosts a night of film, laughter, music and legend, celebrating the moment when LAUREL and HARDY successfully switched from silent movie-making to sound and began their journey towards comedy immortality.

Bhaskar’s guests will include veteran performer JEAN DARLING, who became a Hollywood star at four, is the last of the original Our Gang child actors and who at 87 still has vivid on and off set memories of working with Stan and Ollie.

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A night of hardcore and punk rock at The Junction with Austrian anarcho-punks Rentokill, Cornwall's Bangers, Welsh stalwarts A New Day and Bristol's Guantanamo Babes.
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This is the letter written by George Galloway to the Charites Commision because The CC is holding £ 100,000, intended to help the suffering Palestinian people. He wants this letter publicised to as many people as possible. So here it is with all the contents. read full story / add a comment

Apparently chalking on the pavement is now to be considered criminal damage... read full story / add a comment

Bristol group to lobby MPs over plans for 'development' of green field sites. read full story / add a comment

Local groups formed to oppose the loss of green belt land around Bristol to increasing urban sprawl.

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Alexandre Sidenko from Russia is currently detained in Tinsley House IRC, with removal directions set for Wednesday 16th January on British Airways Flight BAo874 from Heathrow Airport @ 12:25 to Moscow. He was 'snatched' from his Bristol home and community where he has lived for seven years, on Wednesday 2nd January 2008. read full story / add a comment

A struggling Bristol-based singer song-writer stumbles across his chance to put rght a wrong of many years hence. Through an internet competition, his music will now possibly provide him with a much needed platform to start building a new life for himself, after years of heartache and hurt.
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Gloucester Crown Court, 10.30am Wednesday 12th november 2003. Trial begins of Kate Holcombe, Geoffrey Cornock, Owen English who are charged with criminal damage to a gate at RAF Fairford read full story / add a comment

Press Release detailing charity house clearance tomorrow in Bath, raising funds for animal sanctuary and Bath Animal Action read full story / add a comment

Just a quick announcement - the second in the monthly activist film showings at the Porter Cellar on George Street, \'Bubbling under\' takes place this coming Sunday, the 21st - showing animal liberation film \'Behind the Mask\', presented by former ALF organiser Keith Mann. Showing from 1pm til 4pm. Hope to see people there! read full story / add a comment

The Bristol Theatre World has been thrown into chaos by news reports in the Evening Post that two of the city's premier venues, The Old Vic and The Tobacco Factory, Southville, are both facing massive debt crisises. This comes hot on the heels of the news that Community Festival Ashton Court is facing unpaid debts of 45K, and may have to entirely reorganise and downsize its schedule this year. No money in the Arts? What a surprise. read full story / add a comment

This is a feature article about the future of higher education in England. It outlines the events that led up to the industrial action taken by lecturers last summer, and examines some of the causes and effects. There is a specific attention paid to the outcome of the dispute, how academics feel about the result, and what effects this has had and will have in the future for students and teachers alike. Many students in Bristol are currently finding that courses and teachers are disappearing from their universities - this feature looks to address the reasons why this is happening and suggest ways to prevent further such losses. read full story / add a comment

The myth of consumerism is that happiness depends on having things, leading to a lifestyle hungry for resources. Yet although material wealth levels have risen in industrialised countries, studies show people are less happy and depression is more common. The new science of positive psychology explores what happiness is based on and looks at how we can cultivate it. Each year, The Bristol Happiness Lectures brings leading figures from this field to Bristol. This year Dr Chris Johnstone, author of Find Your Power and speaker at the recent Transition City Bristol launch, will be introducing practical strategies to improve mood. He will be joined by Dr Ilona Boniwell, author of Positive Psychology in a Nutshell. If we’re to cultivate lifestyles that don't wreck our world, we need ways of generating good feelings that don’t cost the earth. read full story / add a comment

There is a Bristol ranter called Gosling who occasionally makes sense when he is hunting down fascists and neocons - this is one of those rare occasions read full story / add a comment

This Wednesday evening (March 21st), an inspiring community based response to climate change and peak oil is being launched in Bristol. Following the lead of a growing number of ‘Transition Towns’, including Totnes, Lewes, Stroud, Morehampton, Falmouth, Ivybridge, Ashburton and Penwith, people in Bristol are gathering to develop a staged and planned approach to reducing our city’s dependence on fossil fuels.
At the launch:
Sarah Pugh (co-ordinator) will introduce the Transition City Bristol programme
Dr Chris Johnstone (author, Find Your Power) will talk about The Psychology of Inspired Action
TIME: 7pm - 10pm
DATE: WEDNESDAY 21st MARCH 2007
VENUE: THE TRINITY CENTRE, Trinity Rd, Bristol, BS2 0NW
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Christopher Robert Box will holding a solo show at the Centre Space Gallery next year. read full story / add a comment

Christopher Robert Box is exhibiting as part of the Severn Vale Open Studios early next year (2007). Check website for more details. read full story / add a comment