Seems to be a bog standard press release to all newspapers near to airports. Similar article in the Evening Post for Leeds.
It does seem so.
Thus far I am aware of local newspaper reports containing Flybe assertions that significant growth of routes will be seen at Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton, Leeds-Bradford as well as Bristol. There may be others.
As for Bristol, the airport is short of German destinations having only easyJet to Berlin Schoenfeld and the niche OLT route to Bremen, so there might well be scope there. I believe the airport is still hoping for a return of the LH route to Frankfurt when the recession eases.
Netherlands seems an odd one with Amsterdam well covered by KLM Cityhopper and easyJet. Perhaps Flybe is thinking of Eindhoven. When Ryanair operated this route in summer 2009 the passenger numbers were disappointing for a 189-seat aircraft with average monthly loads being: May - 88; June - 84; July - 129; August - 137; September - 101. This might encourage Flybe to believe its smaller aircraft would fit this particular bill.
Belgium is another route that one would not think of as being at the top of a list from Bristol given that bmiRegional currently operates the route 3 x daily on behalf of Brussels Airlines with seemingly appropriately-sized equipment in the ERJ145.
As
bobsyeruncle points out, the obvious gaps in the Bristol network are Germany and Scandinavia.