Rehoming centre for horses heading for the knacker’s yard? Trouble is brewing at the upper paddock of the Whitchurch-based animal rescue charity HorseWorld, where Managing Director MARK ‘NOT THAT ONE’ OWEN has been making some curious financial decisions. In recent months Owen has been galloping around pleading with politicians and planners for the green light […]
It’s that time of the year once more – so our illustrious MAYOR FERGO has packed his BUDGIE HAMMOCKS AND BRONZER and buggered off to Cannes on the French Riviera for the annual MIPIM Property Conference! Yes, just like last year, when we reported how George and his pals racked up a tab of more […]
It’s been a bumper few months here at The BRISTOLIAN as we’ve set the city’s news agenda. telling you the stories no one else would. Our successes include: HORSEWORLD We originally exposed £80k-per-year HorseWorld boss Mark ‘Not That One’ Owen’s madcap plans to fund his ailing equine charity by building on the greenbelt back in […]
With HorseWorld’s senior management so concerned about public criticism of its decisions – decisions, it should be noted, that have cost the charity a lot of its money, and which currently threaten the livelihoods of dozens of hard-working staff – will it be widening its innovative ‘economic growth through legal threats’ strategy beyond The BRISTOLIAN […]
Following on from our shock story EXPOSING the attempt to CENSOR The BRISTOLIAN, here is the full (“NOT FOR PUBLICATION”) text of the letter sent to The BRISTOLIAN‘s web hosts by city centre legal eagles Burges Salmon on behalf of HorseWorld Trust’s bosses in their risible (and inaccurate) attempt at gagging a newspaper… Our response […]
Ark at ee, it’s our old friend MARK ‘NOT THAT ONE’ OWEN, the moribund boss of troubled equine charity HorseWorld! Of course, when we say “troubled equine charity HorseWorld” it should be pretty clear by now just where the problem lies… Still, having terrorised his staff by doling out redundancy notices, Bristol’s COMMUNICATOR OF THE […]
For TROUBLED CHARITY HorseWorld (see The BRISTOLIAN #4.3) the race to the bottom is not yet over if whispers emanating from within the equine charity’s Whitchurch Führerbunker are anything to go by… Shortlisted for an almost-coveted Bristol Post Business Award, the Horseworld management team forgot about their financial troubles and cut loose at the Awards […]
Featured in this edition: » BLACKLIST BAN! Council finally calls time on sickening anti-safety bosses » HORSEWORLD – ROUND 2! Horse flesh scandal! » BEDROOM TAX BALL-UP! Hoyty-Toyty and Co. in brewery/piss-up non-shocker » COMMUNITY CENTRE COUP! Plans are afoot in Easton … » COUNCIL BOSSES SECRETLY PLOT TO BACK TORIES! Sicko Shitty Hall Tory […]
The latest edition of Bristol’s premier investigative scandal sheet is out now, packed with the stories that the other papers can’t be bothered to cover, including… ‘THREATS’ OVER DOCKS DEATH Rush to silence whistleblowers over ‘accidental death of a cyclist’ that could have been avoided SELF-POLICING ACADEMY IN RACISM ROW ‘No institutional racism here’ says […]