Bristol County, England News

A Bristol man said by a judge to have a tendency for violence after he attacked three men has been jailed for five-and-a- half years.

Hundreds of men in the greater Bristol area are still dying every year from asbestos-related diseases.

A police officer who was meant to stop Bristol shop-lifters stole two computer games and ruined his career.

Doctors have given British actor SIMON MACCORKINDALE just three years to live after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

A man was rescued from his car after a crash on the M5 near Bristol. The accident happened just before 7pm on Saturday evening on the northbound carriageway between junction 20 at Clevedon and junction 19 at Easton-in-Gordano. Fire crews from Clevedon, Avonmouth and Weston-super-Mare found a man in his 40s was trapped in his Ford Focus.

A developer has unveiled fresh plans for a former swimming pool in Bristol. The pool in Whitefield Road, Speedwell , closed in 2005, along with several other pools in the city.

A police officer who was meant to stop Bristol shop-lifters stole two computer games and ruined his career.

The German Ambassador to the United Kingdom visited the modern languages department at the University of Bristol, where he paid tribute to the standard of its teaching.

Three young children from Bristol have been treated in hospital after fire broke out in a first-floor bedroom.

Bristol City FC manager Gary Johnson spoke first in favour of the stadium plans, saying a new stadium was central to the club's ambitions of reaching and competing in the Premier League.

Failing to fix broken tiles in a Bristol nightclub, which went on to cause serious injury, has cost a businessman his director's status as well as a 27,500 penalty.

The neighbour of a man who is facing drug dealing charges has told a jury she saw a gang burgle his flat.

TEENAGERS who boarded a train in Weston were robbed of their bicycles. British Transport Police officers investigating the robbery at Parson Street Station in Bristol have today released CCTV images of four youths they would like to speak to.

Avon and Somerset police dogs are continuing to get their teeth into criminals, as yet another alleged burglar was thwarted in Bristol this week.

Police called to a burglary of a Bristol flat discovered what appeared to be a cocaine factory, a court heard.

Lawyers for Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson argued today before the Supreme Judicial Court that common law from the English colonial era grants the sheriff the power to charge fees to inmates to help offset the costs of their incarceration.

Six-month suspended jail term for William Seago, who is blind in one eye and memorised test chart to get licence Dustbin lorry driver William Seago, who was ordered to do 150 hours of community work, leaves Bristol crown court today.

A 21-year-old garage worker borrowed a car from his workplace without permission and crashed it into a house while he was drunk at the wheel.

Photos by PETER PEREIRA/The Standard-Times Above: Surveyor Mathew Vanderpol sets his sights on a New Bedford home that needs to be checked for its height above sea level.

Dame Shirley Bassey will never get over the tragic loss of her daughter - she is still adamant her death was suspicious.