Evening Post from Bristol, Avon, England • 7

EVENING POST SATURDAY' DECEMBER 1 2 1992 7 NEWS favourite tells winning tale MOW MARTYN IS TOP NEWSHOUND Plea on car park By JUDITH SKORUPSKI NEWSREADER Martyn Lewis made the headlines himself in Bristol along with his favourite dogs Police victory in cells protest POLICE cells in Avon and Somerset will no longer be used to take the overflow from crowrded prisons The Home Office decision follows protests that police station cells are not suitable for keeping prisoners for weeks on end There have also been complaints about police officers having to act as warders Police cells at Bristol Central Southmead Thornbury Bridgwater and Frome are among those that have been used to keep remand prisoners for whom there was no room in crowded prisons Confirmed Recently the police authority wrote to all the MPs in the two counties to protest The authority said it was concerned that police officers were having to work their rest days to look after the prisoners Now the Home Office has confirmed that the practise is to end Prisoners being held in local police stations are to be transferred to Gloucester or Reading prisons The transfer will start on Monday and should be completed by Thursday Hopes for replica facade DEVELOPERS are poised to demolish a historic facade in Bristol and put a replica in its place Bristol Churches Housing Association wants to build 37 flats on a site at York Road Bedminster But conservationists have campaigned to save the crumbling frontage of the grade two listed buildings Now the developers have put forward new plans to knock down numbers 42-66 and rebuild the facade along similar lines A report recommends that city council planners approve the scheme when it meets on Wednesday His hard-back collection of shaggy dog stories Dogs in the News is currently storming up the Christmas best-seller list And he was keeping the tills ringing at VVIl Smith in the Galleries where he was signing copies of the book for festive shoppers The book takes a lighthearted look at dogs ho have made the front pages over the past hun dred years and contains dozens of photographs Demands It includes the story of Jacqueline a talking bulldog and Lulu the pampered pet of the late Emperor Haile Selassie a dog with terrible manners It follows successful Cats on the News published last Christmas which promoted demands for one about about dogs Animal-lover Martyn aged 47 who lives in West London told the Evening Post he would love to have a dog of his own are wonderful but I think it would be fair to have one as we DEVELOPERS have appealed against Bristol City decision to throw out plans for a small car park Bristol Scotts was refused permission to turn an empty site between 26 and 28 St Nicholas Street in the city centre into parking spaces Caring staff Big-hearted workers on the second Severn Crossing have raised £300 for youngsters at Royal Hospital for Sick Children Staff from Laing raised the cash at their Christmas party Office bid Bristol City Council has put forward plans for a new area housing office in Fishponds It will be built on the corner of Graeme Close and New Station Road if the scheme is approved Hi-fi stolen Two remote control units for audio equipment and £47 in cash were stolen in a burglary at Ingleside Road at Kingswood Bristol Video theft Burglars carried out an early morning raid on a house in Bakersfield at Longwell Green Bristol and took a colour television and video recorder worth £525 Van raid A vacuum cleaner together with an electric drill cheque books and credit cards worth a total of £225 were taken when a van parked at Cox Court at Warmley Bristol was raided Record taken A camcorder was stolen when burglars broke into a cottage at Beach near Bitton Bristol Carol concert The Chew Valley Choral Society will be holding a carol concert at Methodist Church in Bishop Sutton on Sunday from 8pm live on a busy road and only have a tiny he said book really seems to have struck a chord which is not surprising when you consider we are a nation of dog Martyn is pictured on he front of the book with star-struck Pippen a loveable shaggy mongrel who has appeared in countless TV commercials really stole the show and kept being given tasty titbits every time she did the right pose all I got was a measly cup of he said Martyn and his wife Liz share their home with two tabby cats called Rosie and Bonnie BEST-SELLER: Martyn Lewis with customer Charly Riddiough from Thornbury Road safety win for WILDLIFE SITE: TRIAL DATE SET battling mum WORK on vital road improvements on the street where a Bristol youngster was killed are now under way Campaigning mum Jane Channing aged 35 has battled for measures to slow' speeding traffic since her nine-year-old son Shane was killed in November 1988 He was hit by a car just yards from his home in Throgmorton Road Knowle Now three years after BRISTOL magistrates have adjourned cases against two companies charged after an incident at a wildlife haven in the city Beechgold Develop-ments Ltd and Churngold Limited each face two charges under the Wildlife and Countryside Act It follows an alleged incident at Royate Hill in Bristol in May A company director CJ Heaton has also been charged under the Wildlife and Countryside Act A trial has been set for three days starting on January 18 humps and a a raised section of road to slow traffic The speed table will be built near the corner of Throgmorton Road and Newquay Road The £25000 of road safety measures should be completed by her death Avon highways chiefs have started work on a package of road safety measures They have already installed a zebra crossing near the junction of Throgmorton Road and Willinton Road And work is starting on putting in eight road BID FOR NEW GUESTHOUSE IS REVEALED Road Clifton installation of satellite dish 89 Cotham Brow conversion of maisonette and basement flat into four self contained flats (retrospective application) Clifton Down Shopping Centre Whiteladies Road new fire escape Alterations to enclose south pedestrian entrance Paving landscaping old station access create new 11 All Saints Road Clifton pollard two sycamore trees EASTVILLE: Unit 5 Crofts Fnd Trading Fst Crofts Knd Road St George to erect a temporary single storey portakabin for storage purposes at the side of the present building 492 Fishponds Road Fishponds conversion of property toResidential Care Home for seven No of mentally ill patients Installation of va lux window 6 Long Meadow Stapleton proposed single store extension glass canopy change of signage and decorations and laying an oak strip floor 1 Berkeley Crescent Clifton change of use from house to office Renewal of consent No 2151 86C 27 29 Colston Street change of use of retail (Al) and former hostel kitchen to bar and restaurant (Ail hours of use 0800 to 2300 Monday Saturday Also restaurant fascia illuminated externally by light fittings 56 St Pauls Road Clifton fell tree to front of property Montague Street Dighton Street Marlborough Street two freestanding advertisement panels (2 96 sheet and 3 48 sheet): and associated fencing UnitG33TheGalleries Broadmead use of unit for retailing of yoghurt and associated products for consumption on and off the premises (A3) Charltong House 21a Somerset Street Kingsdown purple leaf plum reduce and thin by 25 per cent Sorbus prune by 10 per cent CLIFTON: irdcn Flat Bowden House 1 Christchurch Road proposed vehicle access to provide off-street parking space at rear of property access from Grange Road 4 Xorthcote Road use as three separate residential units Sites ofXos 8-16Granby Hill 1-5 Cumberland Place Hotwells enhancement of derelict private site to form a landscaped open space for public use 1 Christchurch Road partial demolition of boundary wall and widening of gate to form vehicular access to existing paved area 7 Buckingham Place removal of condition on approval 1957 71G stating that permission is for side benefit of Solon Housing Ass Pembroke Yale work- to five plane trees two lime trees and two horse chestnuts C0THAM: Alma Tavern is-jp Alma Vale A NEW guesthouse is planned in Brislington Bristol The house in Bath Road would have five bedrooms according to the application made to Bristol City Council The following other applications have been received by the planning department and are available for inspection on weekdays from 830am to 430pm at Brunei House St Road (occupiers of properties near appl icat ion sites will be consulted individually by the department) AV0NM0UTH: Chittening Industrial Kstate Worthy Road proposed industrial unit for use classification Bl B2 and BS King Field Barracks Lane renewal of temporary planning for stewards residential caravan BEDMINSTER: 7 Chessel Street single storey rear bathroom and dining room extension to ground floor flat BISH0PST0N: Kuropa Kitchens 398 400 Gloucester Road Horfield internally illuminated projecting sign BRISLINGTON EAST: Bri-h ngton House Bath road formation of car park BRISLINGTON WEST: 408 Wells Road Knowle single storey extension to existing shop premises for use as carpet storage space CABOT: Beacon House Queen- Road Clifton removing blinds and blind boxes around.