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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Bristol

Bristol stories: 5 news summaries

(Newser) - A gang of young British toughs armed with snakes used a python to bite a teen they pinned to a wall, reports the Guardian. The 14-year-old boy is recovering with two puncture wounds in his hand. He suffered breathing difficulties, but paramedics say that was due to panic and not... More »

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crime • snake • Bristol • gang violence • Britain • teenager • pythons • snake attack

(Newser) - Controversial artist Banksy has mounted a huge show at his hometown Bristol City Museum—but the secretive vandal is nowhere to be seem, the Times of London reports. The exhibition was planned in secret through Banksy’s representatives. “We couldn’t even tell the council and the whole... More »

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entertainment • art • England • sculpture • painting • Bristol • graffiti • Banksy • exhibition • Jay-ZTV • Bristol City Museum

(Newser) - The tycoon lover of a Polish businesswoman found battered to death in the bathtub of a ritzy Paris hotel claims the woman attacked him with a stun gun before a fatal fight, reports the Times of London. British millionaire Ian Griffin told a former girlfriend that Kinga Legg used a... More »

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crime • France • murder • Paris • Bristol • Ian Griffin • Kinga Legg

Hotel Bristols Abound World Over, but Nobody's Sure Why

Scores of hotels worldwide have adopted name of British port city

Sep 27, 08 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - From Panama to Paris to Poland, there are more than 200 hotels in the world called Bristol, and nobody's quite sure why, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some trace the name back to the traveling 17th-century Earl of Bristol, but a native of Bristol, England—itself bereft of a Hotel... More »

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travel • Bristol • Britain • luxury hotels • hotels

Stewart Wins at Chicagoland

No. 20 snaps his 2007 dry spell at USG Sheetrock 400

Jul 16, 07 5:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Stewart grabbed his first checkered flag of the 2007 Nextel Cup season yesterday at the Chicagoland racetrack, after neck-and-neck competitor Jimmy Johnson crashed during the final laps.. Though the Home Depot team driver has 12 top-10s in '07, this season's start represented his longest winless streak since 1999. More »

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Budweiser • Tony Steward • Nextel Cup • Home Depot Racing • USG Sheetrock 400 • Jimmy Johnson • Dale Earnhardt Jr. • Bristol • Dale Earnhardt Sr.

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