Bristol Music Trust trustee Marti Burgess said: "Do we want to be associated with somebody who was the de facto CEO of an organisation that transported over 100,000 Africans to a life of brutal hardship and enslavement?"

The Colston Hall announced today it would change its name in 2020. 

The venue is named after Bristol businessman Edward Colston, who was born in 1636 and made his fortune from the slave trade.   

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Bristol City Council have offered their thoughts on the renaming of Bristol's Colston Hall, which will lose the name "Colston" in a bid to avoid connotations with the slave trader Edward Colston:

Comments have been flooding in to our Facebook pages, external, after the news that the Colston Hall will change its name to avoid "toxic" associations with the slave trader Edward Colston. 

• Ian Harkness writes:The Colston Hall. It's been Bristol's main concert venue for generations, and to change it would be to remove the reminder of the past, both good and bad. How can we learn to avoid past mistakes if we remove all reminders about it? 
• Tim Rose says: Political correctness is about to score another victory it seems. We have to accept that things in the city's history are not things to be proud of, but that's the point, it's our history.
• Nicki Squire disagrees: It's not about forgetting the past or brushing it under the carpet, it's about not honouring a man with what we all now know and accept was an abomination. It's about moving moving forward. It's not about being a lefty or a snowflake it's just plain right!  
• While Sibyl Rosencrantz says: Renaming a building isn't "erasing history"..it's just refusing to glorify it anymore. Stick a plaque in the building to explain what it used to be called and why it was changed. Job done.

This debate is likely to rumble on for a while, do get in touch, external if you have any thoughts to add.

Well that didn't take long to fix...

GWR say a lorry has become stuck under a bridge next to Bath Spa Station, closing all railway lines between Bristol and Bath Spa. 

They say trains may be delayed by up to 60 minutes while the problem is fixed. 

A farm apprentice who was secretly filmed kicking and stamping on cows and calves has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Owen Nichol, 18, admitted two charges of causing unnecessary suffering to animals at Taunton Magistrates' Court.

His actions were filmed by campaign group Animal Equality on a farm in Taunton in December. 

Chairman of the magistrates Dr Peter Reed told Nichol his behaviour was "absolutely unacceptable".  

Nichol was sentenced to a 12-week jail term suspended for one year. 

He was also banned from keeping or working with animals for two years. 

Announcing the Colston Hall name would be dropped, Louise Mitchell, chief executive of Bristol Music Trust, said: "We want to look to the future and ensure the whole city is proud of its transformed concert hall. 

"But the name Colston does not reflect the trust's view as a "progressive, forward-thinking and open arts organisation. 

"When we re-open in 2020 it will be with a new name."

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Police say they are "actively following up" potential sightings of missing Bristol trainee nurse Anna Lewis.

Officers said they'd received about 20 reports of sightings overnight - some in the Lydney area of Gloucestershire.

Anna, 27, a student at the University of the West of England, was last seen on CCTV leaving Southmead Hospital at 12.15pm on 13 April. 

The charity which runs the Colston Hall said "the name Colston does not reflect the trust's values as a progressive, forward-thinking and open arts organisation."

Louise Mitchell, from Bristol Music Trust, said: "We want to look to the future and ensure the whole city is proud of its transformed concert hall."

She said they had always been "clear" about the option of commercial sponsorship as part of the venue's "transformation fundraising plans".

The venue is named after Bristol businessman Edward Colston, who was born in 1636 and made his fortune from the slave trade. 

Here are some of the comments on BBC Points West Facebook after the Colston Hall announces it will be changing its name in 2020.

Kathryn Robinson: COLSTON HALL ......will always be called the COLSTON HALL, would be a waste of money to call it anything else ...if not then pullit down , but as long as its there it will be the COLSTON HALL, STOP DESTROYING ARE HERITAGE 

Simon Peacock: Do we have the same issue with Colston's Girl's School? You cannot re-write history... 

Matt Morris:  We can't rewrite history, but we can learn from it. Leaving it as Colston Hall would be the biggest reminder of Bristols past that could be. Wiping it from the landscape will be another way of 'forgetting' what happen.  

Louise Mitchell, chief executive of Bristol Music Trust, said it was "an entirely moral decision" to change the name of the venue. 

Edward Colston, who lived in Bristol, invested in a slave trade company for 11 years and was an active slave trader. 

Ms Mitchell added it was the "right thing to do" for the "artists, public and diversity of staff".

She acknowledged there would be a "backlash" over the name change but it was "absolutely the right thing to do and the right time to announce it". 

Tickets will have Colston Hall printed on them for the next year until it closes for refurbishment. 

Image source, Phillip Halling

A spokesman for the Colston Hall said the name had become "toxic".

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The Cheltenham Jazz Festival opens today.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend performances at the six-day event - now in its 21st year.

Tonight's headline act is Laura Mvula - the award-winning soul singer-songwriter who has multiple BRIT Award nominations to her name.

Police dogs are being trained at Bridgwater and Taunton College to give them and their handlers experience of working in unusual places. 

Officers say it gives the dogs a busy space to search for guns, drugs and money and is a big test for them. 

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Work has begun on a war memorial in Tidworth, external.

The granite monument is being erected in the centre of the town, close to the community centre.    

Despite being a "fully working" garrison town, Tidworth has never had an official war memorial to commemorate those who've lost their lives since World War One.

The £130,000 memorial is due to be completed in time for Armed Forces Day in June.