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Weston-super-mare is gearing up for its biggest party of the year as T4 on the Beach rolls into the resort.

A BRISTOL-based BBC TV wildlife presenter has escaped being permanently paralysed after breaking his back in a rock-climbing accident.

Police have recovered cannabis with an estimated street value of £300,000 after a raid on a drugs factory in Southmead.

A Crack cocaine addict who stabbed a taxi driver he tried to rob has been jailed for eight and a half years.

Head teachers are urging Bristol City Council to think carefully before making any decisions affecting the future of more than 100 primary schools.

Full marks to the police for another successful raid on a so-called cannabis factory.

Crime in North Somerset is at its lowest this century, according to new figures.

Stars from popular drama Hollyoaks were taking part in a charity football match at Mangotsfield today.

Cast members from the Channel 4 show will face Mangotsfield United's under-18s team. Their team will be made up of familiar faces led by ...

Firms in the Bristol area are being urged to support a fundraising variety show at the city's Colston Hall.

Police who searched a suspicious looking car found a child's chocolate egg containing crack cocaine and heroin, a court heard.

A Music scheme has seen a boom in the number of people learning a new instrument in the Bristol area during the past year.

Supermarket giant Tesco has pledged to forge ahead with its £80 million new town centre for Bradley Stoke despite the credit crunch.

Bristol Cars do not advertise, do not let motoring journalists test drive their latest models, and sell their cars from only one showroom - in London's exclusive Kensington, just down the road from Harrods.

A Couple say their wedding plans were thrown into chaos by UK immigration officials because of a wrangle over a visa.

More than 120 women have become pregnant since a new fertility centre opened its doors six months ago.

Hundreds of pupils in Bristol are still waiting for their Sats results, it has been revealed.

People are being urged to take extra care this weekend during the national coastguard strike.

A Police initiative to stamp out problems with graffiti in Portishead has won the regional heat of the prestigious national Tilley Awards.

People in Staple Hill can have their say over the future appearance of a run-down square that has been included in a regeneration scheme.

Nailsea and Backwell could merge and become one big town if proposals to build affordable homes on a green buffer of land get the go ahead, councillors are warning.

Airbus has revealed it will create 400 new jobs at its new wing plant near Bristol - as it celebrates £20 billion of new orders.

Two Bristol primary schools are celebrating after being told by education watchdog Ofsted that they are no longer in need of special measures.

Iraq veteran Jamie Cooper has ripped up a council tax bill outside the Council House in protest at not getting a disability discount - but he will soon be exempt from the charge.

Experts have come up with a new idea to rival the proposed Severn Barrage - a "tidal fence".

We may live in challenging economic times but things are not all bad.

Big Brother-style spy cameras, condemned as a "gross invasion of privacy", have been spotted in the West.

A Disabled shoplifter who tried to escape from a Bristol store with a TV on his electric buggy has been jailed for six months.

Large cranes have moved onto Weston-super-Mare seafront as a new phase of a £29 million project to strengthen the town sea defences gets under way.

Protesters were today taking a last chance to hand over petitions against aspects of Bristol's proposed shake-up of primary schools.

With a huge smile on her face, Dominika looks as if she doesn't have a care in the world.

One of Britain's largest mobile cranes will lift Bristol's newest bridge into position over the floating harbour.

A Tiny plot of land in Stokes Croft where street drinkers gather is at the centre of a debate over its future use.

Hospitals in Bristol are winning the war against superbugs, according to latest figures.

Defiant Kray Mundy is the latest Gold Star winner after making a miraculous recovery from a stroke in one month despite doctors saying it could take two years.

Residents and politicians are trying to save dozens of BT phone boxes earmarked for closure across Bath and North East Somerset.

The world's first commercial- scale tidal turbine - developed by a Bristol tidal energy company - has delivered electricity onto the grid for the first time.

Bristol could have its own directly elected police watchdog within two years, under government plans to use "people power" to fight crime.

Crime and Policing Representatives (CPRs) would also be elected from South Gloucestershire, North Somerset ...

A Man who stabbed his best friend because he thought he was the devil after overdosing on animal painkillers has walked out of court with a suspended prison sentence.

A Music teacher died when he was hit by two cars just metres from his partner, an inquest heard.

Two major projects have been announced that will bring thousands of jobs to Bristol's northern fringe.

Crowds of supporters lined Clevedon seafront to cheer home competitors at the town's annual Long Swim event.

Council services were facing widespread disruption for a second day due to strike action by staff.

A postman who claims he was wrongly sacked by Royal Mail says he was forced to sell his family home as a result of his dismissal.

Almost 300 children in the Bristol area put their lives in danger by playing on railway lines last year.

The most exotic locations on earth, from the Congo tropical forest to the Indian Ocean coral reef, will be brought to South Gloucestershire as part of an ambitious scheme to create the first safari park of its kind in the country. SIMON PEEVERS reports on the launch of plans for a national wildlife conservation park.

A Breast cancer survivor is challenging men and women across the city to join her in running 10km for Cancer Research UK.

When playground crazes sweep the nation, teachers hold their hands up in despair and parents thrust their wallets a little deeper into their pockets, reluctant to shell out for something they don't understand.

Although it is still only the middle of summer, plans are already being made to get a North Somerset town centre ready for Christmas.

A New enforcement team is at work in Bristol cracking down on loan sharks.

Traders in Old Market fear plans to set up pay-and-display parking could be another nail in the coffin for their businesses.

Bristol Cars do not advertise, do not let motoring journalists test drive their latest models, and sell their cars from only one showroom - in London's exclusive Kensington, just down the road from Harrods.

Airbus has revealed it will create 400 new jobs at its new wing plant near Bristol - as it celebrates £20 billion of new orders.

The world's first commercial- scale tidal turbine - developed by a Bristol tidal energy company - has delivered electricity onto the grid for the first time.

Traders in Old Market fear plans to set up pay-and-display parking could be another nail in the coffin for their businesses.

There was more good news for Bristol's defence industry on day three of the Farnborough Airshow yesterday as Rolls Royce and MBDA clinched big deals.

Business experts at the University of the West of England have the wind in their sails after landing a contract to help a top kite manufacturer.

A Bristol events consultancy has been appointed by the Home Office to handle a major anti- violence campaign across the UK.

Businesswomen came together to raise money for The Prince's Trust, share ideas and toast their success at an event organised by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Alliance & leicester has been bought by spanish bank santander for £1.3 billion and will merge it with abbey.

High street retailers failed to hold on to a sales lift in June as tighter household budgets and changeable weather kept shoppers off the streets.

Work on the Bristol Science Park is due to start at Emersons Green later this year.

Once a 1950s concrete-clad doctor's surgery, the Knowle West Media Centre is now a beacon for others to follow.

When Avon Wildlife Trust began restoring historic buildings at its Folly Farm nature reserve to create a wildlife discovery centre, sustainability was at the core of the plans.

Sovereign Housing Group has bought an office on phase two of Brabazon Office Park because it has grown too big for its old site.

One of Bristol's design talents has been chosen to help attract visitors to one of Britain's oldest lighthouses.

King Sturge's Bristol office agency team has acquired 14,400 sq ft at Deeley Freed's Portwall Place for buildings, transportation and environmental services consultant Faber Maunsell.

Pupils from Clevedon Community School showed their business skills in a Dragon's Den-style contest on Thursday.

A Social housing company has won a top award after giving a new lease of life to a Bristol youth centre.

A South Gloucestershire estate agency has closed one of its two offices as the credit crunch bites.

The world's biggest manufacturer of hot-air balloons is based in Bedminster. Cameron Balloons employs 80 people in its factory in St John Street, from seamstresses to designers. MARTIN BOOTH visited the factory for our latest Made In Bristol feature.

Bristol-based practice, GSSArchitecture, has launched a revamped website to showcase its projects and services.

One of Bristol's oldest surveying firms has celebrated its 130th birthday.

Avonmouth: In dock: Sabrina, Channel, visit; CEC Leader, Tees, project cargo; Welsh Piper, Channel, sand/salt.

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In dock: Grande Europa, Italy, cars; Palma, Zeebrugge, cars; Qinfa 6, Richards Bay, coal; Rital ...

Plans for a £10-million redevelopment of a Bristol city centre office block have been unveiled.

An employee from HBOS bank has been crowned Bristol Receptionist of the Year 2008.

Two restaurants have become the latest signings at the £500-million Cabot Circus development.

Italian restaurant and bar Piccolino, and Chandos Deli will open in the Quakers Friars section of the shopping centre when the complex is unveiled ...

Bristol engineering firm Woodberry Chillcott has scooped a top award for health and safety.

A New service to welcome major investors into Bristol has been launched by the city council.

Bristol-based construction and refurbishment firm Kitto has started work on a £1.1 million upgrade of Clifton College's science block.

Bristol law firm Bond Pearce has advised Formula One chiefs on the move of the British Grand Prix from Silverstone to Donington Park.

Bristol insurance group AXA is hoping this year's Evening Post Recruitment Awards will outshine last year's honours.

The likes of Glastonbury and Badminton Horse Trials may grab all the headlines but, in terms of numbers, Bristol's annual Balloon Fiesta is one of the region's biggest events.

One of Bristol city centre's biggest office lettings of the year has been secured by GVA Grimley at South Plaza in Marlborough Street.

Property consultants Alder King have sold Unit 3, Access 18, Avonmouth, to national aluminium and stainless steel distributors and stockholders, Richard Austin Alloys, on behalf of developers St Modwen in a £2.4-million deal.

Lloyds Pharmacy has opened the doors to its latest outlet in one of the newest primary care centres in Bristol.

Accountancy firm Saffery Champness celebrated a decade in Bristol this month. The company told JAMES COWLING why Bristol is now a key place to be for accountants in the South West region.

A New type of road access cover trialled during the past two years in Bristol is about to go on the market and could help reduce road fatalities, especially for motorcyclists.

Is this the bottom of the market?

The chief executive of Bristol International Airport, Paul Kehoe, has resigned after just a year in the job.

Every apartment sold at an exclusive Bristol development has been bought with cash instead of a mortgage, say developers.

Postal services group DX has opened a £650,000 sorting centre in Avonmouth.

Bristol could have its own directly elected police watchdog within two years, under government plans to use "people power" to fight crime.

Crime and Policing Representatives (CPRs) would also be elected from South Gloucestershire, North Somerset ...

Four of Bristol's best-loved parks and green spaces have won national acclaim in the 2008 Green Flag awards.

One of last year's stars of TV's The Apprentice, Tre Azam, visited Bristol to encourage more black and ethnic minority people to register to vote before the next General Election.

One of Britain's largest mobile cranes will lift Bristol's newest bridge into position over the floating harbour.

Two major projects have been announced that will bring thousands of jobs to Bristol's northern fringe.

The region's two Tory MPs claimed more than £26,000 in expenses between April and June, the party has revealed.

Schools and council services across the West were due to be hit today and tomorrow as thousands of local government workers went on strike.

Bristol City Council has used legislation drawn up to help track terrorists to spy on people accused of minor offences such as littering and fly-tipping.

A Boy of 12 was airlifted to hospital with spinal injuries after falling 10ft into a gully while playing on rocks on Clevedon seafront.

Outfits like these will grace a fashion show at the Berkeley Square Hotel, off Bristol's Park Street, next month.

Model Chelsea West, 20, right, and clothes designer Gill Cockwell, 28, of Stokes Croft, are pictured with a 1924 Lanchester car.

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Nine out of 10 people in South Gloucestershire are happy to live in the district, a new report has revealed.

The annual performance review of the area's unitary council also revealed its spending on services was the fourth lowest of the 46 ...

One of the stars of TV's The Apprentice is joining a nationwide campaign to encourage more black and minority ethnic people to register to vote before the next General Election.

A Pyramid scheme asking people to invest £3,000 in the hope of gaining £23,000 is circulating in Bristol, according to a city councillor.

Schools and council offices face possible closure on Wednesday and Thursday this week when thousands of council workers across the West are expected to go out on strike.

Pensioner Audrey Hewitt is celebrating making her Horfield home more comfortable with help from the city council.

Leading city councillors have attacked plans to revamp the Blackboy Hill road junction near the Downs.

A 37-year-old man from the Philippines has been arrested in Bristol by a new enforcement team cracking down on suspected loan sharks.

The man, who has not been named, has been questioned at a police station and released pending further inquiries ...

Councils in the West have agreed the next phase of a joint strategy for dealing with their areas' waste output.

The four authorities in the former county of Avon are working together to increase household recycling and find longer-term methods ...

For £50 a year Janet O'Connell and her husband David can park near their city centre home - in theory.

A New Play Ranger scheme has aims to help children in east Bristol get the best out of their local parks.

Mps will continue to furnish their homes at taxpayers' expense after throwing out plans to scrap the so-called 'John Lewis list'.

British sidecar trial champions Jon Tuck and Matt Sparks will be out to spearhead the Wessex Centre to victory in the national inter-centre team sidecar trial at Longframlington, Northumberland, on Sunday.

Bristol karting prodigy Mitchell Hale overcame a disappointing start to qualify for the European Junior Karting Championship in France.

Tom Smith and John Leigh took the top two positions in the experts class in the West Wilts club's Enduro at Naish Hill, near Lacock.

Sir Jackie Stewart feels Lewis Hamilton silenced his critics with a British Grand Prix victory he described as "one of the best."

Charlie Newman was a seven-mark winner of the Kingswood Club's Charity Trial at West Harptree on Sunday.

The British Grand Prix has been saved - but from 2010 it will be staged at Donington Park and not Silverstone

The Wessex Centre's Kingswood Club are doing their bit to keep the Gloucestershire Air Ambulance flying by raising cash in their trial at Lambs Lair Cavern, West Harptree on Sunday.

Adrian Cox extended his lead in the British Classic Bike Motocross Championships after winning the first 12-lap race in the second round at Nailsworth on Sunday and finishing second in the other.

Nearly 200 trial competitors are in action in two events in the first day of the Western Classic club's British Bike Bonanza weekend at Horsley, near Nailsworth, tomorrow.

Several class records were broken in windy conditions at the National Sprint Association's Eighth Mile Twin Lane meeting at Smeatharpe on the Blackdown Hills between Taunton and Honiton on Sunday.

Wedmore quarter-mile sprint star Steve Mead is among the leading lights in action in the NSA's meeting at Smeatharpe on the Blackdown Hills, near Honiton, tomorrow.

Bath clubman Ian Fortune won the West Wilts club's Tanner Trudge Timed Trial at a new venue at Steeple Ashton, near Trowbridge.

What a weekend lies ahead for classic bike enthusiasts.

The Bristol Bulldogs may have lost their first match for 30 years - a friendly meeting away at the Weymouth Wildcats - but their fans weren't too worried about the result.

Shane Lovatt is making a habit of winning Wessex Centre timed trials.

A Dozen different class winners hit terminal speeds in excess of 100mph in the National Sprint Association's Quarter Mile meeting at Westonzoyland.

Billy Mackenzie, who has won every round of the British Open Class Motocross Championship held so far, will be going for a win on a bigger stage in the British Grand Prix at Mallory Park in Leicestershire on Sunday.

Bristol's John May lost the lead in the Remedies Bar Championship in the Torridge Club's round of the series at Torrington, north Devon, on Sunday.

Sidecar motocross fans have an opportunity to witness modern-day action in a round of the British Clubmans Championship on Sunday as well as a glimpse of the men and machines that graced the scene a couple of decades ago, now known as the twin shock era.

British sidecar trial champions Jon Tuck and Matt Sparks remain at the summit of the national rankings after winning the BSSA event at Backwell Hill on Sunday.

With few meetings in the Bristol area this year, local grass racers Rod Melksham, John Weeks and Paul Derrick are taking an opportunity to compete in the Somerton Club's South West Centre championship meeting at Walton, near Street, on Sunday.

Steve Mead reached a top speed of 153mph in winning the Super Street road legal class in the National Sprint Association's quarter-mile British Championship meeting at Westonzoyland.

The Somerset Rebels will face a tough quarter-final tie against the Reading Racers in the Premier League Knockout Cup.

The Rebels saw off Newcastle Diamonds in the first round of the competition to book the two-legged tie later this month. Reading ...

Pensford's Paul Baber is hoping to follow up taking the Enduro class award in last weekend's North Somerset Club's timed and observation trial with outright victory in the BSSA's two-hour event at West Harptree on Sunday.

Shane Lovatt, the reigning Wessex Centre timed trials champion, continued his good form by winning the North Somerset club's event at Pensford by nine marks from Peter King.

All the major award winners in the hour-long battle against the clock, ...

Wessex Centre timed and observation trial champion Shane Lovatt proved that he is still at the top of the tree by winning the BSSA's hour-long event at Hanham Mills on Saturday night.

Peter King was first to complete the nine-lap contest, and ...

Quarter-mile sprinting, Wessex Championship Enduro and Classic Bike Motocross all take place in Wiltshire on Sunday.

The Wessex Centre branch of the BSSA is planning to stage a round of the British Sidecar Trial Championship in 2009, and is running a preparatory event in the Lulsgate and Mendip areas on Sunday, May 18.