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A plan for a new mass rapid transit system that involves some underground tunnels under Bristol is needed, is achievable and work towards creating it should continue - that’s the conclusion of a report written by senior transport chiefs at the West of England Combined Authority. The report - a draft of which has been seen by Bristol Live - is to be submitted to a key meeting of WECA on October 6, and makes it clear that while it will be expensive and cause a lot of upheaval, Bristol, Bath and the wider West of England needs it and it ‘can be delivered’.

Ofcom has found that a GB News show presented by two Tory MPs breached its impartiality rules. However, the regulator only scalded the far-right media outlet over it not airing differing views. Ofcom failed to rule against the fact that two sitting Conservative MPs were posing as journalists interviewing a sitting Conservative minister.

The problem here isn’t the fact GB News is a screeching, far-right foghorn amplifier. At the Canary we’ve never claimed to be impartial. They and we are private entities, and that’s our right in the UK. However, while GB News can present its programming with whatever ideological stand point it wishes, it should not be allowing sitting politicians to do it.

The UK’s democracy is already a shambolic farce, which has become increasingly worse in recent years. Allowing sitting MPs to present news programmes is the thin end of the wedge. Ofcom, with all the might of a drain fly, is failing to act quickly enough to stop this practice before even more damage is done.

A newly created wetland habitat north of Bristol is due to open to the public and birdwatchers next month.

The large wetlands includes four kilometres of new public footpaths and has already proved popular with different species of birds.

Hallen Marsh, north of Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston, has been turned into a wetland habitat as part of flood defence works led by the Avonmouth and Severnside Enterprise Area.

New research shows the NHS was the world's leading healthcare system before austerity put it in crisis — exposing calls for 'reform' as justification for more privatisation and underfunding.

Following a historic motion backing non-compliance with anti-strikes law being passed at Trade Union Congress, the general secretaries of the RMT and FBU sit down with Tribune to discuss why a mass campaign of defiance matters for the future of the trade union movement.

Parents, teenagers and local councillors have been left furious after a South Bristol school scrapped its entire academic A-level provision less than 24 hours before the courses were due to start.

Work to complete the so-called Old Market ‘gap’ between the Old Market roundabout and Castle Park is starting on Monday.

The scheme is due to be completed by April 2024.

Councils in England have been given new legal powers to issue fines between £175 and £300 to households who emit more than 3g of smoke per hour from chimneys.

Two escaped dogs savaged a flock of pregnant sheep, killing 22 and injuring another 48, before the out-of-control American XL bulldogs were shot. A farmer turned his gun on the pair of escaped animals that subjected his livestock to a brutal attack on a Welsh farm.

The financial cost of the incident, including the numerous deaths and injuries, amounted to more than £14,000.

The owner of the two dogs – David Hughes, 26, of Pen y Wern, Rhosllanerchrugog – appeared at Wrexham Magistrates’ Court where he admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control and being the owner of a dog worrying livestock. Hughes was banned from keeping dogs for five years and ordered to pay £900 in fines.

A path along the river in the centre of Bristol that closed nearly six years ago will remain shut for another week - after contractors missed the ‘definitive’ deadline announced by the council last month.

Anyone at Dean Lane yesterday? Any good photos/videos?