A person has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a vehicle crashed into parked cars and a garden wall in South Gloucestershire. Just after midnight today (Saturday, December 13) officers were called to Kingswood near Bristol, following a collision involving a grey Volkswagen Golf. Images from the crash …
Read More »Royal Mail issues major delivery warning to 58 UK postcodes this Christmas
High levels of sickness and ‘local factors’ are hitting sorting offices – including in Bristol and the South West 13:17, 12 Dec 2025Updated 14:29, 12 Dec 2025 Royal Mail has given warnings to postcodes around the UK saying deliveries are being impacted by problems(Image: Getty) Royal Mail has issued an …
Read More »Full list of 108 Post Office branches to be ‘offloaded’ by autumn 2025
The branches employ around 1,000 workers in total The Post Office is set to offload 108 of its branches to franchisees(Image: Rui Vieira/PA) The Post Office has revealed plans to hand over its remaining directly-owned branches to franchisees by the autumn. It confirmed that it is offloading 108 crown branches …
Read More »Over 10 banks in Bristol area shut down in two years
More than 10 banks have shut down in the Bristol area in the past couple years. These have included banks in central areas such as Queens Road and Victoria Street. A new map showing bank closures in recent years reveals the area has seen closures all over, from Knowle to …
Read More »University of Bristol’s Temple Quarter campus could face five-year delay, MP warns
The University of Bristol’s new Temple Quarter campus could be delayed by up to five years without £150million of government help, an MP told Parliament. The warning came as four cross-party local MPs put their case directly to the housing minister for huge amounts of Whitehall cash for the city’s …
Read More »Mr Tee King of Desserts is in Bristol tonight for the final time this year
It is no exaggeration to say Mr Tee and his van, from which he serves ice creams and desserts, gets people excited. But with summer at an end, and the demand for ice cream waning, the King of Desserts has confirmed tonight will be his final visit to the Bristol …
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