By Press Association 2021
Black Lives Matter protesters throw the statue of Edward Colston into Bristol harbour in June last year (Ben Birchall/PA).
A pensioner has been convicted of sending abusive emails to a politician in the wake of the toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston, prosecutors said.
Fleetwood Spence, 72, sent six “grossly offensive and really aggressive” messages to Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees a day after the controversial statue was pulled from its plinth.
The bronze memorial to the 17th century slave merchant was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol city centre on June 7 last year, before being dumped in the harbour.
The statue of slave trader Edward Colston is dumped into Bristol harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest. Photo: PA A pensioner from Wirral has been convicted of sending abusive emails to a politician in the wake of the toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston, prosecutors said. Fleetwood Spence, 72, sent six “grossly offensive and really aggressive” messages to Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees a day after the controversial statue was pulled from its plinth. The bronze memorial to the 17th century slave merchant was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol city centre on June 7 last year, before being dumped in the harbour.
A child looks at Savinder Bual: Ananas and the Flatfish, PEER, from Hoxton Street
- Credit: Savinder Bual
When artist Savinder Bual installed her latest exhibition in November, she knew there was the chance of a temporary gallery closure due to lockdown.
So she made sure that Ananas and the Flatfish could be viewable and audible - via a smartphone - through PEER gallery s floor-to-ceiling windows on Hoxton Street.
The show has now been extended until February 13 with one of the installations visible 24/7 through the window and the other projected onto the gallery windows Mon-Sat from 3-10pm. Accompanying sound and images can be accessed via a QR code.
The year Edward Colston s statue fell and how it changed Bristol
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In the autumn of 2019, the Bristol-based history professor and TV presenter David Olusoga stood in the front room of a not-yet-famous house in Redcliffe and made a prediction.
He had just finished an interview with Bristol Live at the then still-secret location of the latest series of A House Through Time, the hit, but still a bit niche, programme which traced the history of a British city, and the nation as a whole, through the stories of the residents of just one single house.
Bailey has made it through eight rounds, dancing everything from the cha-cha to the Charleston
He’s made it. Bill Bailey is in the final of Strictly Come Dancing – at the age of 55. He’s jived to Blondie, pasodoble’d to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and tangoed to the heavy metal of Metallica. He’s entertained and surprised us. He may well even waltz off with the glitterball trophy (he’s the bookies’ favourite). Until now, the oldest winner of the BBC’s ballroom contest was creaky-jointed Joe McFadden at the grand old age of 42. Bailey, the Telegraph’s Strictly columnist, is on the verge of an astonishing coup for the oldies. He has written about having dreams of dancing around Stonehenge – if he wins, he can probably skip becoming a national treasure and declare himself a national heritage site.