NEW: Mary Page has been named as the Green Party candidate for the upcoming West of England Combined Authority Mayoral election. Heather Mack, who is Deputy Leader of Bristol City Council, has stood down from her candidacy to allow her to focus on her council role

The petition to save Whitchurch Athletics Track now has nearly 5k signatures: “Mental health crisis, surging anti-social behaviour, knife crime, vandalism are on everyone's mind, but yet the answer from the council seems to be, ‘let's build more houses'.” www.bristolworld.com/sport/exodus...

The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight. The class wars.

There were festive vibes at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol tonight for the press night of this year’s Christmas show, Hansel & Gretel 🎄

The sound and light show Luxmuralis is back at Bristol Cathedral and it’s as stunning as ever ✨

NEW: West of England mayor Dan Norris confirmed bus fares won’t be kept at £2 in the region on Politics West this morning, before saying the biggest achievement in his role has been his ‘birthday buses’ scheme 🚎

It was amazing to see the first few sculptures for the new Wallace & Gromit trail in Bristol today. Let's hope there are some more around the south of the city this time round 🤩

It’s the end of an era with Bristol Blue Glass to close its High Street store in the New Year 😢 www.bristolworld.com/news/bristol...

The Stylistics at the Bristol Beacon tonight 🎶

A new shop has opened in the former Jack Wills at The Galleries Shopping Centre in Bristol. It’s wonderful to see this historic building back up and running in time for Christmas www.bristolworld.com/lifestyle/ch...

UK journalists talking about echo chambers when 0.2% of journalists are Black and 2.5% Asian and 51% of the most influential journalists went to private school is a bit of a joke

NEW: Just awful scenes in Bristol today where a reported hit-and-run has led to a child being taken to hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries

I've created a people of Bath / Bristol starter pack. Lots of interesting folk to follow (a lot are creative types). Please shout if I've missed you and you want to be added or if you want to be removed. 🙏 #Bath #Bristol go.bsky.app/CWWZAbV

Bristol doing Bristol stuff

One thing I love about Bluesky is opening the app and my feed not being full of hate

The run-up to Christmas in Bristol just got better with the opening of Wallace & Gromit: A Cracking Christmas Experience today. I had a first look preview of the fantastic new attraction 🧀🎄 www.bristolworld.com/whats-on/fir...

The sky is clearer here