Portishead Times

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Portishead Times
Typeweekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
Website http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk

The Portishead Times is a weekly free newspaper delivered to homes in the Portishead and surrounding villages area of North Somerset, England. It can also be bought in local news agents.


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<i>Dummy</i> (album) 1994 studio album by Portishead

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Portishead, Somerset Human settlement in England

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<i>Portishead</i> (album) 1997 studio album by Portishead

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<i>Roseland NYC Live</i> 1998 live album by Portishead

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Geoff Barrow British musician, instrumentalist for the band Portishead

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Sour Times 1994 single by Portishead

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Portishead railway station

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Pill railway station

Pill railway station was a railway station on the Portishead Branch Line, 7.8 miles (12.6 km) west of Bristol Temple Meads, serving the village of Pill in North Somerset, England. The station was opened by the Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Company on 18 April 1867. It had two platforms, on either side of a passing loop, with a goods yard and signal box later additions. Services increased until the 1930s, at which point a half-hourly service operated. However the Portishead Branch was recommended for closure by the Beeching report, and the station was closed on 7 September 1964, although the line saw freight traffic until 1981. Regular freight trains through the station began to run again in 2002 when Royal Portbury Dock was connected to the rail network.

MetroWest (Bristol)

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Get the Blessing

Get the Blessing are a jazz rock quartet based in Bristol, England. The band formed in 2000 when Jim Barr and Clive Deamer (drums), who had played with Portishead, joined Jake McMurchie (saxophone) and Pete Judge (trumpet) over their appreciation of Ornette Coleman.

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