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#Paris
is reducing on-street car parking and giving an inspirational lead to world
#cities
by transforming the reclaimed space for vegetation and people -
#construction
#architecture
#paris
#cities
#health
#environment
#leadership
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Congratulations Wales.. We rolled out 20mph across Bristol 10 years ago in the face of loud opposition.. It is now widely accepted that the city is a safer place, encouraging walking & cycling - saving lives and cost to our health services
@20splentyforus
From today a default 20mph speed limit has been introduced in Wales
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Thanks to all who've given great support, and best of luck to
@Marvin4Bristol
as he takes over as
#mayor
of
#Bristol
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How could anyone with an iota of empathy for Bristol think that these 9 and 11 storey blocks behind the iconic listed cranes
@mshedbristol
are acceptable? The current Labour mayor and administration supports this destruction of our historic skyline - use your vote wisely!
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A graphic demonstration of how we got our priorities so wrong ..🚶♂️🚗
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While remaining fiercely independent I am supporting the Greens in Bristol as the best hope to get us out of the mess that we are in locally, nationally and globally
@bristolgreen
@carla_denyer
Here's an opportunity to double your donation:
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RT
@lukejerram
: 3 inches of snow and the rules of the road in the UK no longer apply!
@TheCityofPlay
@playingoutCIC
#play
#Bristol
child friendly
#cities
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#America
before illegal
#immigration
@realDonaldTrump
@RepublicanGOP
#USA
@indianland
@AmerIndianNYC
@IndianAffairs
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#Bristol
- vibrant young
#UK
city - votes 62% to
#Remain
in
#EU
, but we're being dragged out of it by the
#dinosaurs
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Park your car on double yellow lines in
#Bristol
and anything could happen...
#Upfest2017
@Upfest
@BristolCouncil
#parking
#graffiti
#Upfest
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Fun is a serious business! Our Bristol ‘Make Sundays Special’ initiative, which was sneered at by my successor, opened eyes to the benefits of car free streets and brought international attention to the city.
10 years ago yesterday:
The epic Park Street waterslide in
#Bristol
created by
@lukejerram
Footage we filmed for
@LStyleDistrict
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This demonstrates huge sense of humour by
#InsulateBritain
@InsulateLove
! Climate activists buy environment secretary’s Cornwall constituency office
#climate
#planet
#environment
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What a wonderful day to relax between election and count! Whatever the result I'll be forever grateful for the opportunity to serve
#Bristol
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Princess Victoria Street ‘open’ in
#Clifton
- at long last - 100% improved without the
#cars
- attracting more people and purses! Thanks to all who made this happen
@BristolCouncil
- let’s have more of this across the city please.
#Bristol
#environment
#community
#cities
#health
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Nature fights back! Great to see College Green starting to recover from yesterday’s trampling by 30,000 or so feet ... a brilliant
#Bristol
day of
#Climate
protest.. and big thanks to
@GretaThunberg
@Strike4Youth
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I’ve just voted in Bristol. I remain fiercely independent but believe a Green
@bristolgreen
majority
@BristolCouncil
would reinforce our environmental credentials and is the only hope of saving our city from further planning destruction by
@BristolLabour
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Hi -
@BristolCouncil
sold cranes for scrap in 70’s. We (City Docks Ventures Ltd) bought them back and shamed the city into buying them back off us, which then enabled us to buy the old Pill ferry ‘Margaret’ the first
#Bristol
boat
@BristolFerry
opening eyes to leisure potential..
The four huge cranes outside
@mshedbristol
museum were last used in 1974. In the 1980s a plan to sell them for scrap metal was stopped due to public outrage and they were officially bought by the city from private ownership. They’re now beloved icons of
#Bristol
.
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I've asked for the flag of
#Pakistan
to be flown
@BristolCouncil
#Bristol
City Hall tomorrow in show of solidarity:
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"A developed country is not a place where the
#poor
have
#cars
. It's where the
#rich
use public
#transportation
"
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Great to see these joyful signs popping up in
#Bristol
- all very much part of our slightly anarchic character:
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We don't have to condone vandalism to recognise cruelty and injustice. I now regret us not removing the
#Colston
statue when I was Mayor to place it
@bristolmuseum
with full historical narrative - even though it would have been flying in the face of majority
#Bristol
opinion.
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Not 'angry' but determined! This isn't just to do with
@bristolarenal
@ArenaIsland
I've been fighting for
#Bristol
's character and soul since the 60's - and don't wish to see it wrecked by greed now! Have we learnt nothing in 50 years?
#SaveBristolArena
Former Bristol Mayor
@GeorgeFergusonx
has launched an angry attack on current Mayor Marvin Rees after proposals to scrap plans for a long-awaited arena in Bristol city centre.
Read more:
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It’s evident that mayor
@MarvinJRees
decision to abandon
#BristolArena
is driven out of personal resentment...
#ArenaIsland
was acquired for the benefit of the people of
#Bristol
who have been cheated of what would have been one of the best venues in Europe
@bristolarenal
@bbcrb
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Fingers X'd
@TheAcademy
#Oscars
for
#Bristol
's woolly heroes
@shaunthesheep
@Aardman
and all your great
#animators
!
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In case no one’s noticed my new year resolution is to take the gloves off I’ve been wearing for the past 5.5 years and fight like hell for
#Bristol
@BristolCouncil
@BristolLive
@bristol247
@BBCBristol
@bbcrb
@bw_businesswest
@itvwestcountry
@Ujimaradio
@BCfmRadio
@VisitBristol
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FGS we need many more car free
#streets
- let’s celebrate those that have been achieved
@createstreets
@livingstreets
#cities
#health
#Clifton
#Bristol
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V sad that the absent owner allowed this landmark listed building get into such a state. Bristol is suffering from a rash of poor planning and third rate development - we now have the responsibility of ensuring something of sympathetic scale and real quality on this key site.
The Grosvenor Hotel opposite Temple Meads is finally being demolished today
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Is it really ‘nimby’ not wanting stuff like this in your backyard?
#Bristol
@BristolCouncil
#Planning
#Nightmares
@PlanningShit
@createstreets
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Flattering artist impression of proposed blocks of flats in historic
@BristolZoo
gardens in Clifton Conservation Area, involving loss of 80 healthy trees, to go to
@BristolCouncil
Wed 26 at 2pm. How could this be considered appropriate?
#Unsustainable
#Unattractive
#Unacceptable
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Many congratulations to
@sandyhruthven
for putting the
@TheGreenParty
in such a strong challenging position in
#Bristol
. Now is the time to restore the principle of cross-party representation, as promised, with a particular emphasis on a
#climate
friendly carbon zero future.
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#Cliftonwood
was all grey and condemned by
@BristolCouncil
in the 60’s - saved by some of us painting our houses. I painted mine red! We opened people’s eyes. RT VisitBristol: First impressions of
#Bristol
- in English and Finnish
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Great
#Bristol
aerial shot by Jennie Alger
@Tobacco_Factory
with
@GretaThunberg
mural
#cities
#climate
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Enjoy Corn Street
#Bristol
free of traffic today as it should always be! Why oh why do we find it so difficult to hand over the centre of our beautiful city to the people?
@VisitBristol
@greatstreets
#health
#environment
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What is ‘transformational’ about more f’ing car parking? : ‘New £60m public transport hub at Bristol Airport’
@StopBrisAirport
@JustStop_Oil
@GreenpeaceUK
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Excuse me Marvin but what’s
#sustainable
about a vast out of town venue and
#car
magnet that robs
#Bristol
central economy? RT
@MarvinJRees
:
Read the latest on the exciting plans for
#Bristol
’s 17,000 capacity Arena, set to be most sustainable in Europe
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Hi Greta - you will get a huge welcome from young & old in
#Bristol
@EU_GreenCapital
2015 - and we much look forward to showing you our giant
@jodyartbristol
mural
@Tobacco_Factory
after the strike!
Heading for the UK! This Friday, the 28th, I’m looking forward to joining the school strike in Bristol! We meet up at College Green 11am! See you there!
@bristolYS4C
4K
5K
40K
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I’m backing Sandy for Mayor for a greener future for
#Bristol
@sandyhruthven
- for a fairer future and a cleaner
#climate
friendly city - our only chance of preventing the Labour domination that has such a political stranglehold with 4 MPs, Council majority and Elected Mayor.
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Maybe
#Bristol
democracy will kick in after all! Thanks to
@BristolCouncil
members for calling Mayor to account for highly dubious decision making process
@bristolarenal
: 'Why Cllrs are asking for
#BristolArena
decision to be looked at again'
@BristolPost
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Here's my letter
@BristolPost
re
@MarvinJRees
#BristolArena
decision: "Bristol’s future is threatened by a lunatic proposal promoted by those with self-interest to a person who seems to have little understanding of how a city ticks"
#Bristol
@bristolarenal
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RT: The 1st elected Mayor of Bristol had a clear environmental agenda and as the leader of European Green Capital 2015 led the EU cities agenda at Paris COP21 (travelling by train). What on Earth was the current mayor doing when he clearly has no such commitment?
#Climate
🌎
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#Bristol
councillors overwhelmingly in support of city centre
#BristolArena
Inept and biased report by
@KPMG
and
#YTL
clearly have little clue of the damage their selfish proposal will have on city centre vitality.
@bristolarenal
@iBristolPeople
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Bravo! RT
@ElliePittTV
: Several thousand students have left classrooms to join the
#ClimateStrike
in
#Bristol
#UK
#Climate
@ClimateReality
@ClimateGroup
@UNFCC
@citizensclimate
@IPCC_CH
@c40cities
@EU_GreenCapital
@GreenpeaceUK
@bgreencapital
@BGreenVoice
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I'd like to make it clear that anyone who criticises
@MarvinJRees
@BrisMayorOffice
doesn't represent me. He has my best wishes for success.
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Thank you
@BristolCivicSoc
We now need
@HistoricEngland
and
@michaelgove
@luhc
to save Bristol from itself: 3 massive office blocks at the heart of our old city. Height of 14 storey flats but not one dwelling - killing our skyline of historic church spires, towers and cupolas
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What a shameful legacy eh? We should rage against these dreadful schemes forced through planning by a controlling Bristol regime inspired by the worst of US rather than the best of European cities.. They’ve left us with planning permissions for even worse to come..
Castle Park View named amongst the UK's worst new buildings to open in the last 6 years.
The Carbuncle Cup reflects developments from across the country which, taken as a whole, epitomise Britain’s architectural malaise.
The
#gettingstuffdone
era 😠
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Condolences to
@Anne_Hidalgo
Mayor of
#Paris
from the city & people of
#Bristol
. Our hearts go out to you all as we stand solidly with you.
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Thank you
#Bristol
! Stop the power crazed Bastards
@10DowningStreet
hijacking our hard fought for
#Democracy
...
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This is a crass development and clearly comes out of desperation by
@MarvinJRees
to kill off the great
@bristolarenal
project in favour of his commercial friends. Is this really what we want to welcome people to
#Bristol
with?
@bristol247
Take it to Dubai!
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2,000 capacity concert hall v 12,000 capacity Temple Meads arena at greater cost to the city - all through catastrophic mismanagement by
@BristolCouncil
project management - and where is that great out of town arena we were promised? 7 wasted years..
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C’mon
#Bristol
- other
#UK
cities now stealing a march on us while we used to lead the way!
#Walking
#Cycling
#Transport
#Planning
#Cities
#Environment
@BristolCouncil
@Bristol_People
@stillawake
@SustransSW
Brilliant: Newcastle, UK, releases a ‘pro-city’ plan to create a walking and cycling network to connect every school, to every park, to every local shopping center. Culling parking from the streetscape is one of the key ways they are going to do it.
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A big thanks to all who helped
@bristol_1st
campaign. Without big party resources we've done our best for
#Bristol
!
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For those who think their votes won't count. Votes in 2010 GE:
10.7m Tories
8.6m Labour
6.8m LibDems
15.9m NON VOTERS
http://t.co/BhMkCS9baC
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If only UK provincial cities were financed like French cities we might have decent public transport systems..
🇫🇷 Montpellier is the latest place to offer free
#PublicTransport
to reduce emissions.
🚊 Policies like this tackle inequality, reduce congestion and bring down emissions.
🟢 It's good for society, our health and the planet.
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Bristol’s Park Street after the royal proclamation - how our city
#streets
should be..
#Bristol
#cities
#health
#environment
#walking
#cycling
@livingstreets
@createstreets
@BristolCouncil
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I hear a formal complaint lodged
@BristolCouncil
re
@bristolarenal
#Bristol
#Arena
. It’s now clear there has been web of deception and YTL Arena decision was made early 2018 prior to KPMG ‘study’. Mayoral decision is tainted. Should be made by full Council
Here's my letter
@BristolPost
re
@MarvinJRees
#BristolArena
decision: "Bristol’s future is threatened by a lunatic proposal promoted by those with self-interest to a person who seems to have little understanding of how a city ticks"
#Bristol
@bristolarenal
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Extremely bad news - and not one home - a sad legacy of
@MarvinJRees
and
@LabourBristol
administration who trashed Bristol’s heritage with the worst planning since WW2!
#Bristol
#Planning
3 Massive blobs for High St / Wine St Bristol, work begins this year
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Baa Baa
#Bristol
have you any wool? RT
@bbcrb
: It's
@shaun_inthecity
! Don't they look great?
http://t.co/GpCWtjyGwP
http://t.co/62uGLxyh15
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My
#Bedminster
view from
@Tobacco_Factory
enhanced by new
@Upfest
mural by
@Digital_Fires
#Bristol
#graffiti
#artist
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It is a disgrace - shame on those councillors who voted to grab this precious city farm land for burials. There is no good reason not to purchase low grade land outside Bristol for such use.
@Catherinewith11
@DanicaPriest
@AudreySuzanne
@TonyDDyer
@bristolgreen
@Bristol_People
We are deeply disappointed in Bristol City Council’s decision last night to expand South Bristol Cemetery & Crematorium into Yew Tree Farm, a site designated, by the council itself, as a Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI). (1/9)
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RT
@EmmanuelMacron
: We all share the same responsibility: make our planet great again
#Climate
#Trump
#Betrayal
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#Bristol
makes its mark by electing all
#women
MPs
#GE2015
. Congratulations
@tdebbonaire
@CLeslieMP
@kerrymp
@karinsmyth
Lets work together!
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Good to hear on
@BBCRadio4
that
#London
Mayor
@SadiqKhan
is to follow
#Bristol
's example re
@BristolWater
drinking fountains and
@RefillBristol
to help eliminate plastic bottles and save our
#oceans
@CitytoSeaBrist
@nataliefee
#water
#plastic
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Stay tuned in
@bristol_1st
as we expand our purpose as a platform for positive change
#Bristol
#Cities
#Environment
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Another
@upfest
triumph - proving street art is not the preserve of men! RT
@bbcrb
: The Six Sisters are complete! 🎨
North Street in
#Bedminster
is looking BRIGHTER today ☀️
These murals have all been done by female artists 🙌
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Please RT if you agree: 'If Bristol Arena is not built at Temple Meads, as promised, it'll be a betrayal of the people of
#Bristol
' Written in anticipation of publication of KPMG reports tonight
@BristolCouncil
@BristolPost
@bristol247
@bbcrb
#BristolArena
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Great result
@Bristol20mph
- but yet another expensive
@BristolCouncil
consultation confirming what was done was the right thing to do! Please have the grace to accept these things and move on :-) 3 years lost and only 11 months left to make progress!
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It’s hard to believe we have a
#Bristol
mayor with so little feeling for his city’s great heritage
@harbour_news
What a great public park, but not for much longer if
@MarvinJRees
wins a second term. Ask
@martr101
@stillawake
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All who cast judgement should listen to
#DavidMiller
whose words were judged not to be anti-semitic or in any way against the law - but he's been sacked. Our
#Universities
should stand up to partisan pressure to defend academic freedom - not use weasel words to justify dismissal.
"They'll feel a great victory getting me sacked, will redouble efforts to get others sacked"
Chilling warning from pro-Palestine Professor David Miller. Supporters say he's the victim of relentless character assassination campaign by pro-Israel groups.
#DavidMiller
@PressTV
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RT
@createstreets
: Terraced Streets: High density, popular, viable, green, safe, beautiful Let’s build more!
#cities
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Tragic loss of the Bristol Guild after 114 years promoting good design - great memories of better times. Our thoughts are with the lovely staff..
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Please RT!
#Bristol
is under attack from more damaging development than we have experienced in the past 50 years:
#Cities
#Planning
#Architecture
@ThePlanner_RTPI
@ArchitectsJrnal
@theAoU
@RowanMoore
@edwinheathcote
@PlanningShit
@createstreets
@theTCPA
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Massive Attack are absolutely right - I have said that I regret not having achieved more in my 3.5 years as Mayor: RT
@bristol247
: Massive Attack have criticised both of Bristol’s two elected mayors for not confronting Colston’s legacy earlier
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Cracking news for
#Bristol
! Big thanks to
@SproxtonAardman
and
@PeteLordAardman
for keeping
@aardman
independent by handing ownership to the wonderfully creative team who have helped in its phenomenal success.
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The loss of one diseased tree on
#Bristol
’s Brandon Hill is sad but the proposed felling of 80 healthy
#trees
in the historic
@BristolZoo
#Gardens
is a crime: Please RT
@SBZGardens
@BristolTreeFora
@AvonNeedsTrees
@uobfoe
@Bristol_FOE
@TristanCorkPost
@BristolLive
@bristol247
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Save
#BristolArena
from being dumbed down and out of town! Vital for
#Bristol
music scene and local economy that it's built now! We have site, funding, planning, operator and contractor - all ready to go. Petition: Thank you
@TTHFlett
whoever you may be!
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Pink tree - Pink Cabot Tower - Autumn / Fall 🍂 on Brandon Hill this sunny Bristol morning ☀️
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RT
@BackwellHouse
: Breathtaking
#Bristol
photo by Ben Costigan Photography. Who couldn't love this city!
@bristol247
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I’m proud of Bristol - with a Green led City Council, a Green MP for Bristol Central, and Greens now in the challenging position for all other Bristol constituencies - and particularly proud that Reform hardly featured! 🗳️
Bristol results:
🥇 Bristol Central:
@carla_denyer
MP
🥈 Bristol East:
@AniST
🥈 Bristol South:
@breitideas
🥈 Bristol NW:
@Mary4BristolNW
And for
@SouthGlosGreens
:
🥈 Bristol NE:
@lorrfrancis
The Green Party came 1st or 2nd in every seat with
#Bristol
in its name.
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