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1 week agoNew York StateComments Off on UK city reveals plans for new trams as part of £800million transport upgrade – after they were scrapped 84 years ago
A TRAM line could be on the cards after planned changes to key roads in the city centre are set to create an “unbroken” corridor — a crucial step towards building a future mass transit network.
In Bristol, the proposed route would run from the Long Ashton park and ride in the south-west, through the city centre, and along the M32 to the north-east, largely separated from other traffic.
GettyTransport leaders say it’s a strong contender for the first phase of a tram or rapid bus line[/caption]
GettyThis change will help the city tackle its housing crisis and sustain the vitality of the central area[/caption]
Transport leaders say it’s a strong contender for the first phase of a tram or rapid bus line.
Over the next two years, significant roadworks will take place at several central hotspots including Bedminster Bridges roundabout, Redcliffe roundabout, Union Street, the Haymarket, and Bond Street.
These upgrades will benefit the existing Metrobus M2 and set the groundwork for a future tram or rapid bus route.
Transport officials at Bristol City Council say this new “red route” could form the spine of a tram network.
Speaking to councillors on the transport policy committee, Green Cllr Emma Edwards said: “This route in future could potentially turn into a mass rapid transit route, whatever that might mean: more buses or maybe other modes as well.
“We’re trying to solve a problem for the future by creating an unbroken route that could turn into mass transit.
“We’re trying to think about the long term.”
While the exact form of the network is still under discussion, trams and bus rapid transit are the main options being explored.
The idea of a mass transit system for Bristol has been debated for decades.
Former mayor Marvin Rees had proposed a partially underground system, but the spiralling cost halted progress. In 2023, former West of England Mayor Dan Norris vetoed the underground element entirely, calling it “unrealistic”.
Since then, the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) has continued to explore alternative solutions — without agreeing on whether a tram or bus system is best.
Labour’s Helen Godwin, the newly elected metro mayor, has yet to commit to a specific plan.
Meanwhile, Bristol City Council is pushing forward with the groundwork.
Adam Crowther, head of city transport, said: “Whether mass transit there ends up as a bus or a tram, either way it needs to be fully segregated from traffic, otherwise you get stuck and that’s when they become unreliable and therefore people don’t want to use them.
“So it’s about providing that full segregation.”
He acknowledged that new bus lanes on Bond Street will worsen car traffic in the short term.
Bristol City CouncilBristol City Centre Transport Changes Bristol city centre is set to change in the coming years, with major new housing developments and leisure and retail facilities planned[/caption]
But councillors hope the changes will encourage more people to leave their cars at home in favour of public transport or cycling, reducing congestion in the long run.
Labour Cllr Tim Rippington added: “One bus carrying 50 passengers really should be given priority, in my opinion, over 25 cars queuing up.
“I don’t see a problem with stopping the traffic in order to allow a bus to pass by. It’s all designed to deliver this red route.
“The worst thing that could happen is that we deliver all the infrastructure and then the lanes stay empty and we don’t deliver the mass transit route until 10 years later.
“I’m not even sure that the new metro mayor is aware that this route is our plan.”
Redcliffe roundabout changes will also enable a potential orbital bus loop around the city centre, initially running anti-clockwise.
Left turns are easier to implement than right turns, but funding remains uncertain.
Franchising may be required if commercial bus companies are unwilling to take it on.
The full red route begins at Long Ashton park and ride, travels along a bus-only road to Cumberland Road, and then through the newly controlled Bedminster Bridges junction.
Redcliff Street will become bus-only, and a bus gate at Bristol Bridge already blocks general traffic.
From there, it heads through Union Street and past Primark at the Haymarket.
Further bus lanes are proposed along the M32, with a new park and ride to be built, though the location is still being debated.
In the long term, the motorway could be downgraded to an A-road to accommodate tram or bus stops.
WECA is currently developing an outline business case to assess the best way forward.
Construction, however, is unlikely to begin before the 2030s.
GettyThe idea of a mass transit system for Bristol has been debated for decades[/caption]
1 week agoNew York StateComments Off on Actor from Netflix’s The Crown is convicted FRAUDSTER who stole £20k, lied about being military hero & wore fake medals
AN actor who appeared in The Crown has been accused of stolen valour after posing as an officer in the Army reserves.
James Yeates, 42, even attended an Honourable Artillery Company dinner in full Intelligence Corps mess dress.
FacebookActor James Yeates, 42, has been accused of ‘stolen valour’[/caption]
FacebookVeterans launched an investigation after a tip off[/caption]
Pictures showed him wearing three medals – the Queen’s Diamond, Platinum Jubilee and King’s Coronation medals – at the swanky do.
Other online photos saw him posing in Intelligence Corps fatigues.
But the convicted fraudster was exposed after veterans launched an investigation following a tip-off.
In reality, the actor had never served a day of his life in the army.
Instead, he had purchased the medals on eBay.
In an online profile he boasted: “I’m a fully trained, enthusiastic and versatile actor, l’m also a current serving officer in the British armed forces (reserves).”
When The Sun confronted him he hastily amended the bio to read: “I’m a fully trained, enthusiastic and versatile actor.”
On another site, Backstage, he wrote: “Alongside being a professionally trained and working actor, I am also a current serving officer in the British Armed Forces (reserves).”
His email auto-signature also read: “Major James Yeates, Co-Founder, Military and Aviation Advisors.”
But veterans say there is no record of him ever serving in the reserves and no mention of him in the London Gazette which lists every officers’ commissions.
Extra Yeates, who posted photographs of himself on the set of the Crown in 2018 and 2019, suggested the picture of him at the mess dinner was from a film set.
But furious guests who also attended in March 2024 said an internal investigation was now underway to find out who invited him and whether he was vetted.
Yeates also claimed his firm, Military and Aviation Advisors, had worked on the film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, but there is no record showing their involvement.
The Walter Mitty Hunters Club, who led the investigation, is now calling for a new law, the Stolen Valour Act, to make it a criminal offence.
A spokesman said: “The sole reason we exist is because of people like Yeates.
“If there were ever a strong reason for a stolen valour act, this is a prime example.
“Yeates clearly has a well documented history for dishonesty, going by his past endeavours, and the undeniable evidence trail.
“But to impersonate a serving Major in the Intelligence Corps, regular or reserve.
“Wearing the uniform, rank, and medals, which Yeates has not earned, and taking in genuine veterans, and those still serving, when he had never even stepped foot in a training establishment or served one day in the armed forces is a step too far.
“His deliberate actions are disrespectful to the service community and to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in the service to the crown.”
InstagramJames was previously jailed for fraud in May 2015[/caption]
InstagramVeterans felt disrespected by James’ actions and called for a ‘stolen valour act’[/caption]
InstagramJames has run several failed businesses[/caption]
Yeates, of Dorking, Surrey, escaped jail in 2006 after he took more than £20,000 from customers’ bank accounts after his business collapsed.
He blew £22,650 within three days and later admitted using criminal property and transferring criminal property at Guildford Crown Court.
1 week agoNew York StateComments Off on Bloodcurdling moment ruthless soldier cocks his gun & presses it against woman’s temple during restaurant brawl
THIS is the bone-chilling moment a ruthless cop pins a woman to the ground and holds a loaded gun right up against her temple.
The shocking scene happened as tourists brawled outside a Chinese restaurant in Russia.
NewsXThe cop pinned the woman to the ground at gunpoint[/caption]
NewsXIt came after she slapped him hard around the ear[/caption]
NewsXOfficers had been called to reports of a fight in Khabarovsk[/caption]
The clip begins with burly officers confronting the brawling tourists as they try to bring order to the streets.
But the crowds aren’t having it, and make an attempt to scrap with the cops.
As the outnumbered officers work to bring the situation under control, a woman suddenly strikes one of the the cops from behind.
She slaps him hard on his ear before taking a step back.
But instead of attempting to restrain the woman by hand, the enraged officer suddenly pulls his gun on her.
The startled woman falls backwards onto the stairs as the cop moves in, pinning her to the ground.
He plants the barrel of his weapon onto her temple for a nerve-shredding split second.
But after a moment, he holsters his weapon while continuing to restrain the woman on the steps.
He then takes handcuffs from a fellow officer as he hauls her away from the scene.
By this point the fight had mostly quietened down, with a few onlookers nervously watching the cops leave.
They barge their way through a few tourists still standing there as they take the woman away for questioning.
According to the Russian state news agency TASS, the cop was later treated in hospital for a burst eardrum.
A Russian Federation Investigative Committee statement said: “A criminal case has been opened for the use of violence against a government official in the performance of his official duties.”
Any offenders could face up to 10 years in jail if they are convicted.
Two other suspects are also reported to have been detained.
NewsXThe startled woman falls backwards onto the stairs as the cop moves in[/caption]
NewsXTwo other suspects are also reported to have been detained[/caption]
1 week agoNew York StateComments Off on I had headaches my whole life before a brain tumour was found – a change in my symptoms finally led to a diagnosis
NIAMH Rose Mulheron had experienced headaches since she was a child.
It wasn’t until years later, when other symptoms she initially mistook for flu appeared, that her brain tumour was discovered.
SWNSNiamh felt like her whole world was crumbling when it was discovered she had a brain tumour[/caption]
SWNSShe’d experienced headaches since she was a child[/caption]
The 26-year-old’s headaches were “never taken seriously” and were brushed off as school stress or puberty when she went to see her doctor.
A few weeks before her diagnosis, at the age of 14, Niamh suffered with extreme exhaustion and would sleep for more than 12 hours a day – putting the symptom down to flu.
But when she woke up blind two weeks later, she knew something wasn’t right and she rushed to Western Infirmary Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, where a CT scan revealed she had a mass on her brain.
She then had an emergency surgery at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital to remove the tumour, followed by a biopsy, which revealed she had a benign ganglioglioma – a rare brain tumour.
Since having the tumour removed, Niamh has been left with limited peripheral vision – which she said is a constant reminder of her diagnosis but she refuses to let it hold her back.
Niamh, a child care practitioner, from Glasgow, Scotland, said: “After I was diagnosed, we found out that the tumour was pressing on my optic nerve, which is why I went blind before my diagnosis.
“That caused a lot of damage to my eyes, I have no peripheral vision at all.
“That is why I have to wear glasses, but they don’t really help because of the damage the tumour has caused.
“It has affected me a lot, it is something that reminds me of everything that happened.
“As I have no peripheral vision at all, I am constantly on edge because I can’t see properly.
In the weeks leading up to her diagnosis, alongside extreme tiredness, Niamh began vomiting while trying to eat food, and also put this down to the flu.
Niamh said: “I started having headaches for years before I was diagnosed with a tumour.
“It was a day-to-day occurrence that I had, a couple of weeks before my diagnosis, I was sleeping constantly.
“The headaches started to intensify, I would eat and be sick when I was digesting food – I thought I had caught a bug.”
‘It felt like my whole world and life was crumbling’
In February 2013, Niamh went to bed and woke up the next day with blurred vision, so her mum, Christine, 55, took her to the GP, who recommended she go to A&E.
When she got there, Niamh had a CT scan which revealed a mass on the brain and she was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for emergency surgery to remove the tumour.
Niamh said: “Looking back on when I first got diagnosed, I honestly felt like my whole world and life was crumbling.
“Although I was only 14, my mind went into overdrive at all the possible outcomes I could be facing, and that stuck with me for years.
“It was years later when I did actually realise what had happened to me, and that was pretty difficult, because it felt that I had to live it all over again each time I was coming to terms with it properly.”
The emergency surgery was successful, and doctors were able to remove all the tumour – which was found to be bengin – and Niamh was told she didn’t need chemo or radiotherapy.
SWNSNiamh’s headaches as a child were never taken seriously and were brushed off as school stress[/caption]
SWNSShe underwent three surgeries to remove the brain tumour, and now gets scanned once a year[/caption]
The biopsy revealed that Niamh had a ganglioglioma – a rare brain tumour composed of both neuronal and glial cells.
Niamh then had two further surgeries one to remove a bone flap when she got an infection and another to remove a second tumour that started growing in her brain.
Niamh said: “Luckily for me, after those three surgeries, I was finished.
“I didn’t need chemotherapy or radiotherapy. At the time, I would go for MRI scans every three months for a year, and now I get a scan once a year.
“I feel so much anxiety when I have a scan coming up, even going into the MRI machine, I feel really anxious thinking they might pick something up again.”
The most common symptoms of a brain tumour
More than 12,000 Brits are diagnosed with a primary brain tumour every year — of which around half are cancerous — with 5,300 losing their lives.
The disease is the most deadly cancer in children and adults aged under 40, according to the Brain Tumour Charity.
Brain tumours reduce life expectancies by an average of 27 years, with just 12 per cent of adults surviving five years after diagnosis.
There are two main types, with non-cancerous benign tumours growing more slowly and being less likely to return after treatment.
Cancerous malignant brain tumours can either start in the brain or spread there from elsewhere in the body and are more likely to return.
They can also lead to changes in personality weakness or paralysis on one side of the problem and problems with speech or vision.
The nine most common symptoms are:
Headaches
Seizures
Feeling sick
Being sick
Memory problems
Change in personality
Weakness or paralysis on one side of the body
Vision problems
Speech problems
If you are suffering any of these symptoms, particularly a headache that feels different from the ones you normally get, you should visit your GP.
Source: NHS
Niamh is now calling for more mental health support for people recovering from brain tumours.
She is still living with the effects of her tumour after it damaged her optic nerve – meaning her vision is impacted – leaving her with no peripheral vision.
She said: “I wish support services, such as those offered by The Brain Tumour Charity, had been flagged up when I was diagnosed and when I really needed them.
“It would have made a massive difference to my life.
“The charity’s digital channels, especially its closed Facebook groups, provide a great place to read about other people’s experiences and connect with people who know what this type of diagnosis is like.
“I was told there was no one or no services that could help me deal with my diagnosis so that was difficult, but then finding the charity has made a massive difference to me.
“Getting to chat to others, read other people’s stories, have that support, it really does make a difference, and that is important.
The Brain Tumour Charity has awarded funding to researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London who are developing a national approach to ensure young people living with the effects of a brain tumour can reach their full potential at school.
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