Fruit Market OFF - Club redeveloping Mem instead.

They also sell Flowers, so that could satisfy the pansies amounts us...

Who said accountants have no sense of humour.

For Hinkley Point C, some of the land around the site was bought by EDF through a compulsory purchase order

Is the pub referred to as the Thunderbolt related to the 1953 film "The Titfield Thunderbolt"?. There are two scenes in the film from a platform at Temple Meads with Totterdown in the background.

Maybe but it used to be called the Turnpike. Could have previously been the Thunderbolt i guess. I think the name is more a reference to the style of music the pub now has performances of. 

:Deep: I remember Casey Jones, but that was the Cannonball Express.
I hope this helps?

That's all very true.
The big issue was that Barclays offered shares for ABN which was actually a very well rated and highly respected bank at the time and set a fair value price.
Fred the Shred was so set on getting it all costs to meet his European/Global Bank dream he offered cash well over its value, hence the team's recommendation to leave well alone..
As they say the rest is history.
It's also true that Lloyds should never have bought Bank of Scotland. Lloyds I believe was AAA rated at the time. HBOS was a basket case and many Banks had stopped going into their deals because they were so  slack. Gordon Brown however would not let a Scottish Bank fail so he basically compelled Lloyds to back it.

Interesting note is that if Scotland had been independent and the UK not been there to bail it out the collapse of RBS and HBOS could have caused the failure of the country or at the least a deep recession that would have lasted a generation . A point conveniently ignored by Nationalists especially Nicola Cranky. (apologies to my Scots friends!)

I can't see Marvin wanting to upset YSL? 

The latest form the BP:

www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bristol-fruit-market-shareholder-responds-3179602


One of the major shareholders of the Bristol wholesale fruit market has denied the inner city site is set to be sold to Bristol Rovers to develop into a new stadium.

Rovers president Wael Al-Qadi spoke to BBC Radio Bristol 45 minutes before kick-off at Bloomfield Road on Saturday and stated a number of locations are being considered to build a new football stadium but the area in central Bristol just north of the River Avon, between Arnos Vale and Saint Philip's, was the club's No1 option.

Bristol Rovers fans have been craving a new stadium for more than a decade, having played at the Mem since 1996, and delivering a ground was one of the promises Al-Qadi made when his family purchased the club in February 2016.

What Wael Al-Qadi has said about Bristol Rovers' new stadium and what has actually happened

Mr Al-Qadi said: "We have identified one site, along with others, we are very interested in. We have options but one of the sites is the site at the fruit market - we are very interested in that site."

In the same interview he confirmed the club are still "hoping" to have the new stadium built within the next two years.

He said: "Two years to go from now that is still hopefully our aim and our target."

The fruit market is owned by Total Produce, Fresca Group, Arthur David & Company and remains listed as so in the Land Registry.

Total Produce regional director Nick Matthews discussed the latest developments on BBC Radio Bristol on Tuesday morning following the comments from the Rovers president.

Mr Matthews said: "It was a bit of a surprise to me as well to be honest.

"The only reason I responded to the tweet put out by BBC Radio Bristol was to put people right.


"We have offers for the fruit market on a regular basis, we had one recently but on behalf of Total Produce we declined the offer.

"We are not the only shareholder but we are a major shareholder in the market. Our view on things is we are happy where we are. We have got no desire to move. We have got no need to move.

However Mr Matthews did not close the door on the possibility of the fruit market site in St Phillips Marsh being sold altogether but he made it clear it was unlikely. He said: "The site where we are works for us currently so unless someone comes along and makes us and offer we can't refuse we will be sticking where we are."

One thing Mr Matthews was adamant about was the two year time line to have a stadium built at the fruit market site set out by Mr Al-Qadi is unrealistic.

Mr Matthews said: "With several shareholders involved it could take two to three years to find the right place to move to and then build a new fruit market, and then only when we have moved to a new fruit market and left the old one empty could somebody demolish it and even start to think about building a new stadium.

"To say they are going to be on our site in two years is fantasy really.