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The Evening Post building at Temple Way, Bristol, is the unusual setting for an extreme sports video – with BMX bikers using the front steps for acrobatic stunts in a video for Hard Hat Productions.


A memorial fund for a toddler who lost a year-long battle with leukaemia has raised £1,600 in less than two weeks.
More than 90 Leicester Mercury readers chipped in the complete the total, which will raise funds for cancer relief and the children’s cancer ward at Leicester Royal Infirmary.


Landscapes around Huddersfield have been immortalised in a new set of table mats produced by the Daily Examiner.
Each one of six contains a different moorland scene and they are proving a popular choice – with more than 200 on order already.
The mats, by local artist Ashley Jackson, were commissioned to mark the paper’s 150th anniversary.


Bus travellers in Bristol are to be targeted with a personal safety message as the Evening Post’s Clubsafe campaign moves up a gear.
First City Line has designed and printed a poster at its own expense to display on all 300 buses in its fleet.
Different firms have joined forces with the Post to help make it safer for women to get home after a night out.


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