A disturbing first-hand account of a plain clothes police officer quizzing a fellow blogger who had taken two photographs of the new Costa cafe on Gloucester Road. Read the story here.
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Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Undercover police in Bristol’s new Costa « Bristol Culture
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Thursday, 23 July 2009
New Feed Added
Chronicles of Bristolia is the latest local media site to be added to the feed roll on the right hand column of Trym Tales.
As Jules Hynam, the blog owner, says about himself: "I am a photographer."
A rather good one, in my opinion.
His Flickr stream can be followed here.
As Jules Hynam, the blog owner, says about himself: "I am a photographer."
A rather good one, in my opinion.
His Flickr stream can be followed here.
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Thursday, 26 March 2009
Just Can't Get Enough?
Loyal readers of this blog, currently forced to wait up to three days between postings, will be relieved to learn that an additional source of erudite local comment is at last available, created by the team (uhmm) that brings you Trym Tales.
As guest writer for the local portal Guide2Bristol, I will be posting intellectually stimulating items of local interest every week on the site, which can be viewed here.
Recent pieces include a post about the current round of allocation of places for secondary schools in Bristol (with more than a passing glance at the new Oasis Academy Brightstowe) as well as an item on the pressure to build new houses in Bristol's greenbelt in the coming years.
Guide2Bristol contains a news section, an accommodation section, information on Bristol's diverse neighbourhoods, a jobs section and a free classified section. That's just part of it, of course, as it also includes its own blog written (as outlined above) by yours truly.
Thank you.
As guest writer for the local portal Guide2Bristol, I will be posting intellectually stimulating items of local interest every week on the site, which can be viewed here.
Recent pieces include a post about the current round of allocation of places for secondary schools in Bristol (with more than a passing glance at the new Oasis Academy Brightstowe) as well as an item on the pressure to build new houses in Bristol's greenbelt in the coming years.
Guide2Bristol contains a news section, an accommodation section, information on Bristol's diverse neighbourhoods, a jobs section and a free classified section. That's just part of it, of course, as it also includes its own blog written (as outlined above) by yours truly.
Thank you.
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Sunday, 28 December 2008
Popular Posts of 2008
The following have been among the most popular individual posts on Trym Tales this year, according to Sitemeter, who monitor this sort of thing free of charge.
Thanks to regular readers for your support and to those who subscribe via email or RSS.
In no particular order, here are the most read items from Trym Tales in 2008:
1. The Andrew Ibrahim Story
The local angle on a national story has always been a staple for regional newspaper editors and the same is true for those independent blogs which have a narrow geographical focus. The story of a terror alert in Westbury on Trym in April was fast moving and covered by national and regional TV and press. Trym Tales produced original photographs of the bomb disposal unit and also broke the story about Andrew Ibrahim's schooling history ahead of the national press. The story also received the highest number of coments so far on Trym Tales, not all of which were suitable for publication.
2. The Rogue Postman
Occasionally, a story receives a flood of readers because it is picked up on a message board. This was the case with the "counterfeit courier" story from July, which surprised me by being circulated nationally via the Royal Mail intranet over a two or three-day period. Not having access to this, I was not able to guage opinion on the story, but was mildly amused at the idea of hundreds of posties from Brighton to Glasgow reading the item and passing it on during their tea breaks.
3. Redland Green School
Education stories have always been popular on Trym Tales, with the blog routinely appearing on the top of the first page on Google under relevent search terms. Changes to the catchment area for the new Redland Green School produced concern among local families, as did the publication of figures showng that even in the new, smaller catchment area, 87 local children had been unsucessful in their application to the school.
4. Bristol Independent Media
The decision in November to include live RSS feeds to all of the city's independent media producers appears to have been a popular one and now means that Trym Tales has effectively become a portal for local news and blogs. It has even reached the dizzy heights of inclusion on the BBC Bristol web site as a source of local news alongside ITV and the Evening Post. Steady on!
6. The Severn Barrage
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the diagram of the proposed undersea turbine included with the story about harnessing the tidal power of the River Severn has been worth several thosand hits. The picture has been the landing point for hundreds of visitors from every part of the globe. Interest in the story has been particularly strong in the USA, Australia, Romania, Indonesia and China since it was published in January.
5. Cabot Circus
My inability to find a bookshop in the new £500 million Cabot Circus retail experience seems to have touched a nerve at Bristol University, whose members picked up on this story and whizzed it around the blogsphere in the second week of November. The post is also my personal favourite of the year.
Thanks to regular readers for your support and to those who subscribe via email or RSS.
In no particular order, here are the most read items from Trym Tales in 2008:
1. The Andrew Ibrahim Story
The local angle on a national story has always been a staple for regional newspaper editors and the same is true for those independent blogs which have a narrow geographical focus. The story of a terror alert in Westbury on Trym in April was fast moving and covered by national and regional TV and press. Trym Tales produced original photographs of the bomb disposal unit and also broke the story about Andrew Ibrahim's schooling history ahead of the national press. The story also received the highest number of coments so far on Trym Tales, not all of which were suitable for publication.
2. The Rogue Postman
Occasionally, a story receives a flood of readers because it is picked up on a message board. This was the case with the "counterfeit courier" story from July, which surprised me by being circulated nationally via the Royal Mail intranet over a two or three-day period. Not having access to this, I was not able to guage opinion on the story, but was mildly amused at the idea of hundreds of posties from Brighton to Glasgow reading the item and passing it on during their tea breaks.
3. Redland Green School
Education stories have always been popular on Trym Tales, with the blog routinely appearing on the top of the first page on Google under relevent search terms. Changes to the catchment area for the new Redland Green School produced concern among local families, as did the publication of figures showng that even in the new, smaller catchment area, 87 local children had been unsucessful in their application to the school.
4. Bristol Independent Media
The decision in November to include live RSS feeds to all of the city's independent media producers appears to have been a popular one and now means that Trym Tales has effectively become a portal for local news and blogs. It has even reached the dizzy heights of inclusion on the BBC Bristol web site as a source of local news alongside ITV and the Evening Post. Steady on!
6. The Severn Barrage
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the diagram of the proposed undersea turbine included with the story about harnessing the tidal power of the River Severn has been worth several thosand hits. The picture has been the landing point for hundreds of visitors from every part of the globe. Interest in the story has been particularly strong in the USA, Australia, Romania, Indonesia and China since it was published in January.
5. Cabot Circus
My inability to find a bookshop in the new £500 million Cabot Circus retail experience seems to have touched a nerve at Bristol University, whose members picked up on this story and whizzed it around the blogsphere in the second week of November. The post is also my personal favourite of the year.
Which just leaves me to say again a big thank you to my readers in 2008 and to wish you the very best for the 2009 when Trym Tales will return with more news and views from North Bristol's urban village.
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Monday, 1 December 2008
New Feed Added
Children of the Can -a local street art site - is the latest blog to be added to the live feedroll on the right hand side of this page.
Trym Tales aims to include all the current feeds from Bristol's blogging community so let me know of any I've missed.
Trym Tales aims to include all the current feeds from Bristol's blogging community so let me know of any I've missed.
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Saturday, 8 November 2008
All Bristol's Independent Media in One Place
Bristol's growing number of independent media producers - writers, bloggers, vloggers, photographers and podcasters - have until now relied on diverse methods for letting others know they exist.
Due to the wonders of modern technology, the latest content from all of Bristol's independent media producers can now be accessed in real time here at Trym Tales.
The feeds on the right hand column are the latest offerings from the many blogs and web sites producing local content by local people. This is not a blog roll. It's a feed roll.
To qualify for inclusion in this diverse list, the site has to fulfill a few criteria. First. it must be written or produced by Bristolians and/or contain a significant amount of material with a Bristol theme. Second, it needs to be updated regularly. Sites with no postings since July, for instance, did not make it the cut. Thirdly, the sites need an RSS feed. Any such feed will do, but unfortuantely, there are a few good sites out there which I cannot include because they have no accessible feeds. For some reason, a few of the party political sites fall into this category, otherwise they would be included. Finally, I have tried to restrict the list to non-corporate sites. The Cabot Circus blog, if there is one, will not be included, for instance, nor those by the large institutional media organisations. The aim, instead, is to give a platform for genuinely small-scale sites written by local people about local issues.
I hope you find the sites of interest. Even a glance down the titles of these sites reveals a very diverse and creative independent media scene covering a huge range of issues, perspectives and neighbourhoods within Bristol.
I've no doubt missed many out that I don't yet know about. So, please get in touch and tell me about any that should be included.
Happy reading.
Due to the wonders of modern technology, the latest content from all of Bristol's independent media producers can now be accessed in real time here at Trym Tales.
The feeds on the right hand column are the latest offerings from the many blogs and web sites producing local content by local people. This is not a blog roll. It's a feed roll.
To qualify for inclusion in this diverse list, the site has to fulfill a few criteria. First. it must be written or produced by Bristolians and/or contain a significant amount of material with a Bristol theme. Second, it needs to be updated regularly. Sites with no postings since July, for instance, did not make it the cut. Thirdly, the sites need an RSS feed. Any such feed will do, but unfortuantely, there are a few good sites out there which I cannot include because they have no accessible feeds. For some reason, a few of the party political sites fall into this category, otherwise they would be included. Finally, I have tried to restrict the list to non-corporate sites. The Cabot Circus blog, if there is one, will not be included, for instance, nor those by the large institutional media organisations. The aim, instead, is to give a platform for genuinely small-scale sites written by local people about local issues.
I hope you find the sites of interest. Even a glance down the titles of these sites reveals a very diverse and creative independent media scene covering a huge range of issues, perspectives and neighbourhoods within Bristol.
I've no doubt missed many out that I don't yet know about. So, please get in touch and tell me about any that should be included.
Happy reading.
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