Police raid drum n’ bass rave in Bristol and fine 13 rule flouters £800

This is the moment police disrupted an illegal drum ‘n’ bass rave in Bristol and handed out £10,400 worth of fines – while elsewhere officers caught 15 women at a Soho pyjama party. Officers arrived at the house on Tyndalls Park Road in Bristol at 2.30am on Saturday to find more than 50 people inside. … Read more

Urban legend of parking attendant at Bristol Zoo might be true, researchers say

Gorillas in the myth: Urban legend that self-styled parking attendant collected fortune from visitors to Bristol Zoo over 20 years then retired to the sun might be true, researchers say Tale claims man worked as car park attendant without authority for two decades  It has been disputed by both Bristol Zoo and Bristol City Council … Read more

Moment police raid lockdown party for dozens of Bristol students

Shocking bodycam footage captures police officers storming a ‘reckless’ lockdown-flouting student party in Bristol. Police flung open the doors of the halls in Bristol city centre to find dozens of students standing in groups in the hallway. They can be heard talking loudly to each other and shouting ‘go’ to clear the area as the … Read more

Coronavirus Bristol: Mass vaccination centre stands ready to receive its first patients

A mass vaccination centre set to treat 5,000 people a day has been kitted out ready to receive its first patients on Monday – after Boris Johnson vowed to jab hundreds of thousands of people each day by next Friday.   Empty chairs have been placed a metre apart in the waiting area of Ashton Gate … Read more

This Bristol home sees price boosted by millions thanks to Banksy

Houses on the same street and of similar size should all sell for roughly the same price. That’s the general rule – and a logical one, too. Sometimes, however, that neat little equation is blown apart.  Never more so than last month when Aileen Martin was selling her blue-painted terrace house in the Totterdown area … Read more

Pair charged with abducting girl from Bristol after trip to McDonald’s sparked a 16-hour hunt

Pair are charged with abducting eight-year-old girl from Bristol whose disappearance after trip to McDonald’s sparked a 16-hour hunt Ismail Qurba and Annmarie Lawton will appear at Bristol Magistrates’ Court Charged with detaining a child so as to keep her from a person having lawful control of her Police said the girl was ‘safe and … Read more

Pair arrested over abduction of eight-year-old Tillie in Bristol

The two suspects in the hunt for an abducted eight-year-old have been arrested after an urgent 16-hour manhunt.  Tiolah, known as Tillie, was taken out by her neighbour Annmarie Lawton and a man called Adam, who is unknown to her family, in Bristol at around 3pm yesterday.  Lawton, 29, visited Tiolah’s house with Adam and … Read more

Urgent search for eight-year-old girl from Bristol missing after trip to McDonald’s

Police launch urgent search for eight-year-old girl from Bristol who went missing after trip to McDonald’s with a family friend and unknown man in suspected abduction By Danyal Hussain For Mailonline Published: 07:41 GMT, 17 December 2020 | Updated: 07:43 GMT, 17 December 2020 A desperate hunt had been launched to find an eight-year-old girl … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Protesters hit the streets in London, Bristol, Edinburgh and Brighton 

Groups protesting against the coronavirus vaccine and lockdowns took to the streets of London, Brisol, Edinburgh and Brighton today as the Government continued to scale up its testing strategy. Anti-lockdown protestors marched through Edinburgh city centre, gathered at London’s Hyde Park, brandished placards in Bristol and walked along the seafront in Brighton this afternoon.  It … Read more

£300,000 Bristol house where Banksy mural appeared ‘could now be worth £5MILLION’

After a year-long investigation by Claudia Joseph, Simon Trump, Ewan Fletcher, Adam Luck, Jason Buckner and Craig Hibbert, the Mail on Sunday named Banksy as Robin Gunningham. The search began with a photograph taken in Jamaica showing a man in a blue shirt and jeans, with a hint of a smile on his face and a … Read more