{"id":325527,"date":"2025-08-07T15:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325527\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:34:21","slug":"headlines-balloon-fiestas-special-shapes-and-event-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325527\/","title":{"rendered":"Headlines: &#8216;Balloon Fiesta&#8217;s special shapes&#8217; and &#8216;event outbreak&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man is standing in a giant green balloon as it inflates \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2e22f000-7368-11f0-ab1c-fb449de285a1.jpg\"  width=\"3840\" height=\"2160.2742857142857\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA MediaImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bristol Balloon Fiesta returns on Friday<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Here&#8217;s our daily pick of stories from across local websites in the West of England, and interesting content from social media.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Our pick of local website stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink\/one-bristols-oldest-family-run-10402777\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bristol Live, external<\/a> reports that a 44-year-old Indian restaurant &#8211; possibly among the oldest in the city &#8211; is closing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An open day at HorseWorld this weekend has been cancelled after an outbreak of a respiratory disease, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somersetlive.co.uk\/news\/somerset-news\/horseworld-open-day-cancelled-after-10404406\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Somerset Live, external<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And anti-social behaviour wardens are returning to the streets of Salisbury, but only until March next year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salisburyjournal.co.uk\/news\/25363767.anti-social-behaviour-wardens-return-salisbury-city\/?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1754461122\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salisbury Journal, external<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Our top three from yesterday<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Balloon Fiesta has posted a preview of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bristolinternationalballoonfiesta\/posts\/pfbid0gcJFqWBdh32y8ZMdLokd7K2nNFuJc8m8i22y11m3jLjqBRNa75G7QhYs7eLHoygEl\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some of the special shapes, external<\/a> set to be seen by many people ahead of the first day of the event in Bristol on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Gloucestershire Council has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100064725964674\/posts\/1175089811325207\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apologised for the traffic problems on the A38, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the woman behind the idea for Gloucester&#8217;s various multicoloured &#8220;rainbow streets&#8221;, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DM_CrpHopZI\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed her latest city project, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image source, PA MediaImage caption, The Bristol Balloon Fiesta returns on Friday Here&#8217;s our daily pick of stories&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-325527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114988218288081803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}