
Twenty-five balloons light up Ashton Court for the final Night Glow
Thousands of spectators cheered as up to 25 balloons, including a sheep and a screwdriver, were inflated for the last Night Glow of this year's Bristol International Balloon Fiesta.
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22 good things from across Bristol, gathered over the last 7 weeks.

Thousands of spectators cheered as up to 25 balloons, including a sheep and a screwdriver, were inflated for the last Night Glow of this year's Bristol International Balloon Fiesta.
The touring festival of all things chicken wing is coming back to the city this autumn, with 60,000 pieces due to be served over the weekend.
The city's 26 branches have been recognised for welcoming people seeking sanctuary, from ESOL conversation clubs to library tours run with resettlement teams that help new arrivals feel part of the community.
Sam Wilmot, who reviews benches across the city on his Rate This Bench account, told BBC Radio Bristol the story behind the project and where to find a perfect ten.
After a year and a half running a stall in St Nicholas Market, Hari Nathan and Previta Karthigesu have opened their Malaysian eatery on St George's Road, a space they say helps Malaysians feel at home.
Opened by navy veteran John Stenner in 1946 and still in the family today, the plant shop between a chippy and a petrol station will mark eight decades in Henleaze this November.
The director of the university's Smart Internet Lab, and chief scientific advisor to the European Commission, appears on Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in UK Tech longlist for 2026.
The Secret Life of Colour opens at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery on 24 October, bringing together art, natural history and science to explore how colour is made and what it does to us.
The Bristol-headquartered firm has secured around 75 million pounds of new funding to keep certifying and commercialising its Valo aircraft.
Provisional figures show 94 per cent of students achieved at least three A-levels across the city's schools and colleges, with one in eight taking three grades at A star or A.
Around 70 hot air balloons took part in the mass ascent on Friday morning as the 48th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta opened its free three-day run at Ashton Court.
A photography exhibition marks the hospital's 25th anniversary, led by Ciara, who aged four was the face of the 1995 appeal that helped build it. Collections rotate monthly until autumn.
The Bedminster farm is celebrating half a century of growing with the community, with a packed holiday programme of animals, arts, cooking, theatre and sport running to 31 August.
Bristol City Leap's Community Energy Fund is taking applications again, backing local schemes from heat network connections to community solar across the city.
This year's free festival ran across five harbourside areas with circus and on-the-water performance, and celebrated Underfall Yard's two centuries keeping the Floating Harbour alive.
Two floating wetlands were installed beside the SS Great Britain and the Cascade Steps in July, a partnership between WWT, Planet Wild, Young Bristol, the council and harbour partners, giving young birds a nursery and helping clean the water.
Rainbows filled the city as thousands walked the Pride parade from Castle Park to the Amphitheatre in the sunshine, a Bristol tradition with roots reaching back to 1977.
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