Recently added articles from Western Daily Press (Bristol UK):
Rose looks ready to bloom again with haydock win
Jul 02, 2009 ... Rose Blossom can redeem her slightly tarnished reputation byreturning to winning ways in the EBG Gretsch-Unitas Novice Fillies'Stakes at Haydock today. Richard Fahey's juvenile looked a bright prospect when trottingup in record time on her debut at Hamilton. Leading syndicate ...
Millionaire's plan to turn Town into retail hotspot
Jul 02, 2009 ... Tina Rowe t.rowe@bepp.co.uk I t has gone through tough times but now a partnership led bymillionaire financial expert Stuart Le Gassick and local developerKevin Newton aim to make Shepton Mallet one of the most popularretail destinations in the South West. The town's ...
Springsteen's set causes trouble for eavis
Jul 02, 2009 ... Glastonbury Festival organisers could find themselves in the dockbecause Bruce Springsteen's set overran. Licence authority Mendip District Council is discussing with itslegal team whether it will pursue action because the Saturday nightset overran by nine minutes. Festival ...
Bailiffs took furniture but we'll keep serving
Jul 02, 2009 ... Oliver Hulme wdnews@bepp.co.uk P unters at a popular Somerset pub are unable to prop up the bar,because the venue has been stripped of its furnishings bybailiffs. The George Hotel in Wedmore could face closure after thelicensees became locked in a battle with the owners ...
Sisters have it wrapped up
Jul 02, 2009 ... Suzanne Savill s.savill@bepp.co.uk J asmine and Elysia Williams may look like typical schoolgirls asthey make their way home with bags full of homework. But their evenings are not just spent doing revision for theirexams. For the two sisters, who are aged 14 and 12, are ...
Friends drowned in suicide pact
Jul 02, 2009 ... Two men jumped to their deaths in a freezing river the daybefore New Year's Eve after telling friends of their suicide pact onFacebook, an inquest heard. Andrew Smith, 40, and Paul Smith, 43, who were not related,became friends after they met in hospital while being treated ...
Hoff calls in for a little lunch at services
Jul 02, 2009 ... Former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff has been making waves inthe West this week. Yesterday he was spotted at the M5 service station in Gordano, atjunction 19 near Portishead. The star, famed for his roles in hit USA shows Baywatch andKnightrider and who is now a judge on ...
My dad insisted on an x-ray. It saved my life
Jul 02, 2009 ... Jeff Wells wdnews@bepp.co.uk A student hailed her dad a lifesaver yesterday after he refusedto accept her GP's diagnosis of asthma and demanded an X-ray - whichrevealed she had lung cancer. Laura Hicks, of Midsomer Norton, Somerset, suffered years ofbreathing difficulty and ...
Time the BBC opened up
Jul 02, 2009 ... So the BBC has revealed the salaries of its top people, in thesame week that it considered banning on-air swearing until after10pm. Presumably the viewers and listeners are allowed to swearwhenever they like, and many of them will have done just that whenthey heard the size of ...
You get out what you put in
Jul 02, 2009 ... It's now a little bit harder to learn French, Spanish andChinese, after the University of the West of England made some cutsto its language teaching. The university cannot be blamed, because only 39 students wantedto study modern language degrees there and we wouldn't want ...
Am I a mysterious artist in disguise? Don't bank on it
Jul 02, 2009 ... U nless you are a hermit, or have spent the past month on adesert island away from all modern communications - both of whichpossibilities sound delightful - you will have seen or heard aboutthe queues for the Banksy exhibition at Bristol City Museum. I drove past it earlier this ...
Tribute to King of pop
Jul 02, 2009 ... A Bansky-style stencilled tribute to Michael Jackson has appearedin St Paul's near the start of the M32. The black-and-white stencil shows the singer from his days withthe Jackson Five, sporting a large afro and holding a microphone. The alleged new work may be of interest to ...
Insomniac Jackson begged for sedative
Jul 02, 2009 ... Eva Jones wdnews@bepp.co.uk M ichael Jackson pleaded for a powerful sedative to cure hisinsomnia ahead of his comeback tour, a nutritionist said yesterday. Cherilyn Lee, 56, a nurse and nutrition specialist in California,said the tragic singer had asked to be prescribed the ...
Patrol guards nudist beach
Jul 02, 2009 ... Three wardens have started patrolling a popular nudist beach tocut crime after a string of sexual offences were reported. The trio will wear bright yellow T-shirts and work alongsidepolice officers as ...
Pipe explodes
Jul 02, 2009 ... A worker has suffered severe burns after a pipe exploded at hisBristol workplace. The man in his 60s was covered in caustic soda, which burntthrough his clothes, when the pipe ...
New York murder trial
Jul 02, 2009 ... A man accused of the murder of a Somerset couple in a trafficaccident in New York will appear in court on Monday. Auvryn Scarlett has been indicted on two counts of murder in thesecond degree after the ...
Phew, what a squawker!
Jul 02, 2009 ... This brightly-coloured parrot was the envy of office workerseverywhere when it basked in an impromptu shower at Pets Corner inLongleat yesterday. Across the region temperatures soared to a sweaty 30degreesC inplaces. But sunbathers beware as heavy rain and thundery showers ...
Pilots flying high after Royal honour
Jul 02, 2009 ... Royal Navy helicopter pilots and ground staff based at Yeoviltonin Somerset who have served in Afghanistan received their campaignmedals from the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall yesterday. The Servicemen and women from the Commando Helicopter Force (CHF)were presented with ...
Cash-strapped hospice to close well-loved site
Jul 02, 2009 ... Vicki Mathias wdnews@bepp.co.uk A West hospice is being forced to shut a crucial site to itspatients because the recession has left it short of cash. St Peter's Hospice, which deals with hundreds of terminally-illpatients every year, has announced that it will close its ...
Murder probe after woman found dead
Jul 02, 2009 ... A 78-year-old woman is thought to have been stabbed to death ather home. The body of the pensioner, named locally as Sheila Iles, wasdiscovered by police at her house in the Staple Hill area of Bristolat 8.15am yesterday. It is thought she was stabbed to death. Detectives ...