Changelog

Today's air quality for Bristol in plain words, hour by hour, with the pollen count when it matters. It also says what a city-wide reading can't show: a busy road at rush hour is usually worse than the figure on the page.

Real-time positions for the m1, m2 and m3 MetroBus routes, straight from the operator's own vehicles via the national Bus Open Data Service — how far away the next bus actually is, not what the timetable says it should be.

Add up what you actually pay for rent, council tax, energy and water, and see it against Bristol's researched typical range for each — rent from ONS, council tax from the statutory notice, energy from Ofgem's new October cap, water from Bristol Water's own published bill. An optional line covers a residents' parking permit for households with a car.

The flood watch page said the Avonmouth and Severnside scheme cost £100 million. It is £80 million — the figure the project itself, its contractors and its three partners (Bristol City Council, South Gloucestershire and the Environment Agency) all use. Everything else about it was right: 17 km from Lamplighter's Marsh to Aust, around 2,500 homes and businesses, complete in 2026/27, which the page now spells out as by the end of March 2027.

ONS's mid-2025 estimate puts the city at 495,300. The council had expected Bristol to cross 500,000 for the first time at mid-2025; the year added about 900 people, against a decade averaging nearly 4,400 a year. The population research has been rewritten around that, and the figure on the town page is updated.

The 2026 Fiesta is over — five of its six mass ascents flew, and Sunday evening was called off for rising wind. The page has been rolled over for the year: it now leads with the 2027 dates, Friday 13 to Sunday 15 August, and the 2026 result has gone into the record of what past years actually did, which is now five years deep and still says the same thing — mornings fly, evenings often don't. The slot-by-slot timetable stays as 2026's until the organisers publish 2027's.

Pick your vehicle's VED band and add a second or third permit to see what your household's Residents Parking Scheme permits actually cost a year, on the council's own 2026 terms.

The flight team decides at 6am and 6pm at Ashton Court and posts the call minutes later, so nobody knows in advance — including us. What the page does is show the forecast wind at the launch field against the eight-knot figure the CAA publishes for mass take-offs, point at the channels where the real call appears, and cover what doesn't depend on weather: parking that must be booked ahead, the bus that doesn't run on Sunday, and the free places to watch from.

Check whether an address is inside the zone, work out whether your vehicle is charged and what a week of driving in would cost, and see what is left of the exemptions. All ten of the exemptions Bristol created when the zone opened have expired — a blue badge no longer exempts anyone, while the disabled tax class on the V5C still does, automatically. We can't check a number plate here and the page says why; the official checker does that in seconds.

Any Environment Agency warning in force around the city, plus live levels at six gauges — including the Avonmouth tide gauge, because Bristol's flood risk comes up the river on a surge, not down it on the rain. The page shows each measured level and says where it has no published typical range to judge it against.