The southwest city that’s home to one of Britain’s coolest new hotels
Set in a historic building, all rusting distressed walls and art deco-style drinks trolleys, it has an ‘East End squat meets five-star Cotswolds inn’ feel. The café-cum-cocktail…
Man arrested after Bristol’s Southmead hospital evacuated due to suspicious package
North Bristol Neighbourhood Inspector Lorna Dallimore said: “I appreciate the concern this incident may have caused residents and patients and I’d like to reassure them there were…
William Sitwell reviews Thornbury Castle Hotel, Bristol: ‘No chef should send out a roast potato without crunch’
If one wanted to build or extend a dwelling to make it a castle in the early 16th century, there was an additional burden in obtaining planning…
The case for the ‘Colston Four’ was not based on facts, but on political feelings
A Bristol jury this week controversially acquitted the four accused of causing criminal damage to the statue of Edward Colston, the 17th-century slave trader. After the verdict,…
The Colston statue verdict is a monumental mistake
Trial by jury is a glory of the British constitution. On occasion a jury has conscientiously given a perverse verdict in defiance of a judge’s direction. That…
Now I’m in my new home, nothing can dampen my festive spirit
It is compulsory to read this column while listening to Noddy Holder screaming, ‘It’s Christmaaaasss!!!!’ at the top of his lungs, because that’s been the soundtrack blaring…
Drug gangs, skinheads and Stephen Merchant: the wild life of Outlaws co-creator Elgin James
Elgin James has led a more eventful life than most TV writers. He grew up on a farm in rural New England, mixed-race himself, in an adoptive…
Beautiful award-winning photographs of historic Britain
The overall winner of this year’s awards was Steve Liddiard, who claimed the top prize for his dramatic shot of the Gower Peninsula’s Whiteford Point Lighthouse. Explaining…