Portishead

It, there was no match for the ladies this weekend.

They are fourth in the league with nine points from four played, but they have a massive match on Sunday against Portishead, um, away as well.

Portishead, like Pali, are four from four, so a big game, um, for the girls, and we're wishing them all the best.

Rob will be in with a couple of team members on October the 26th.

You, you know Rob, don't you?

Second, environmental assessments and the habitats regulations impose heavy burdens.

The environmental impact assessment for the Jubilee Line extension in the nineties was less than four hundred pages, while the statement to reopen three point three miles of railway on an existing alignment to Portishead ran to nearly eighteen thousand.

The habitats regulations offer near absolute protection, no matter the cost, leading to absurdities like the HS2 bat tunnel and Hinkley Point C's fish disco.

Ministers need to legislate to specify what is and what isn't required in an assessment, encourage compensation over pricey and ineffective mitigation, and force Natural England to prove faults rather than promoters completing the much harder task of proving that there aren't any.

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The railway line to Portishead closed to regular passenger services in 1964.

The freight line to the docks was actually reopened in the early 2000s to serve the ports, but only as far as Port Rejunction.

The rest of the branch to Portishead has been disused and lifted.

But that's all about to change because the line is about to reopen all the way to Portishead.

And I've come here to the Lodbury compound in Pill to see some of the works that are underway.

We walk from the Lodbury compound to the Monmouth Road compound, which is much nearer to the site of Pill Station.

freight trains do actually still use a part of the line that goes into the port it's the section from this junction just back here there's a tree that they're actually bringing down behind me that's roughly where the junction is and it's that section which is currently just used to port its head so when this line reopens to passengers actually there'll be two lines through here one for freight one for passenger The portage headline leads the Great Western Main Line to the south-west of Bristol, just past Parson Street Station at Parson Street Junction.

[suspenseful music] The Street Files, a complete mystery short story every Wednesday.

File 52, "The Portishead Mystery." Olivia Street's red MG Midget pulls off the M4 motorway and weaves into the streets of Bristol on this Saturday morning in September.

She turns north towards the Redland area of the city and pulls up outside 33 Woodfield Road.

This is her daughter Poppy's shared student accommodation while she's here at university.

They wave to each other, then Poppy disappears and reappears at the front door.

The 19-year-old has a room at the front of the house, and she shows Olivia the other five students' rooms, then the downstairs lounge and a kitchen that has double doors out to the garden.

Olivia suggests lunch out, and they drop down into the car and head to a place that Poppy had recommended to her half an hour out of town by the water at Portishead.

They pull into the car park of the Royal Inn near the harbor and are given a table by the window overlooking the Severn Estuary.

Tell us about the team this week and tell us where you're all from.

So we work at a practice in Portishead, just outside of Bristol.

I'm originally from Wales, but the others are all kind of West Country gals.

I imagine there were millions of people when you said, I'm originally from Wales, going, you don't say.