First hour: news review: Bamboo Club in Bristol â Tony Bullimore who started it has died this week; Bristol Carnival; Some sort of chaosâ - Bristol City Council miss financial accounts deadline; Poor children and pupils with special needs kicked out of Bristol schools âto improve resultsâ â not enough money from Central Government; Northampton Council runs out of money. Crisis-hit Northamptonshire county council faced angry recriminations at a special council meeting last night to discuss its response to a massive financial crisis regarded by experts as âunparalleled in modern timesâ. The Conservative-run council, which is technically insolvent and has to make up to £70m of cuts over the next few months to balance its books, has warned that it will in future be able to offer only stripped-back of services to residents. Opposition councillors told the meeting on Wednesday evening that the council was paying the price for years of mismanagement and ideological folly. They warned that the proposed cuts would put vulnerable residents in danger and predicted that the council would face legal challenges to its plans to restrict services. Interest rates hiked slightly this week, economy will start to cool - biggest crash in history is coming The Bank of England has raised the interest rate for only the second time in a decade. The rate has risen by a quarter of a percentage point, from 0.5% to 0.75% - the highest level since March 2009; Bristol Library closures â bringing them up to date; The Bearpit: Other works of art included panels covering historic campaigns against the slave trade, and the cityâs prominent role in the Suffragette movement. The first panel on Ayles quotes the former MPâs own words, describing the slaughter in the trenches of the Great War as "cold-blooded murder", and "crimes against God and man to maintain the honour and glory of the British Empire". â For more than four years a cube-shaped structure in the Bearpit has displayed a variety of slogans, artwork and information. But on Friday morning the cube was unceremoniously removed by Bristol Waste workers on the instruction of Bristol City Council. It comes after the graffiti in the Bearpit was mostly painted over and one week after it was revealed that the roundabout could be turned into a âfood innovation hubâ. - Lisa Furness discusses the changes and the closing down of the art space â  In 2016, the food traders working in the Bearpit set up a breakaway group âBearpit Bristolâ and have effectively worked to push out the community-based BIG. Bristol City Council and Bristol Waste have seemingly backed the traders over the community. Following a campaign of fear-mongering in the media by the traders, Bristol City Council announced that the social experiment was a failure. In early 2018 the Council, amid much confusion, said they would take back control of the Bearpit from the community group (BIG). Since then Bristol Waste have painted the inner walls in monotonous grey and brown, removing artworks such as âBridges not Wallsâ and âDeeds not Wordsâ, works painted for Journey to Justice in late 2017. Inevitably this has provoked a response from graffiti artists and the grey walls are tagged constantly. Since this oppressive move by the Council, artists have been harassed and threatened with arrest by the police. No clear guidance has been issued or communicated to the community. - Wynwood District in Miami - Wynwood is an eclectic district in the urban core of Miami, Florida. It is home to art galleries, retail stores, antique shops, eclectic bars, artisanal eateries and one of the largest open-air street-art installations in the world. Throughout the mid-to-late 1900s, Wynwood was an enclave for Caribbean immigrants and home to Miamiâs Garment District. Following a decade of economic exodus and depression, in the early 2000s, forward thinking developers and property owners rehabilitated neglected warehouses, shuttered factories, and other unused buildings, transforming them into the innovative businesses that are visible today. Air pollution over illegal limit in Bristol; Peter Mandelson thinks we should have another Brexit referendum: Final Say: Peter Mandelson says fresh referendum could empower Theresa May to stand up against Brextremists blackmail; annual speech by Mayor Marvin Rees; Eleanor Combley, Green leader, says Marvinâs fine words do not match his actions.  Speaking at Full council Green group leader, Eleanor Combley, criticised the Mayor for not delivering on his promises. âWeâve heard a lot of beautiful words today, we keep hearing a lot of beautiful words, but the gulf between those words and the reality of the actions I see, and what people around me experience, is so huge that I canât be silent,â she said. âI find myself like the child in the nursery story who just canât help blurting out that the emperor isnât quite as well-dressed as he thinks and I canât keep myself from speaking out. Sometimes it feels like the words take priority over the reality, so that it becomes more important that you can put on your election leaflets that you have kept the Childrenâs Centres open than to actually safeguard the services they provide. So you end up keeping them open as buildings maybe, but with jobs and services cut to the point that they are not necessarily really Childrenâs Centres any more.
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