Finally exposed: How Lopresti ice cream boss kept men in slave-like conditions, tenants and families in squalor. But people spoke out.

In a Cable investigation spanning five years, a shocking story has been uncovered.

In Hartcliffe antisocial behaviour is about more than young people acting up

The common media portrayal of Hartcliffe as being closer to Baghdad than Bedminster is clearly nonsense. But the issue is raw and touches on deeper questions.

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Opinion

European elections: why it matters even though it doesn’t feel like it
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This is no ordinary election, and it comes at a pivotal time, argues Nick Dowson.

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Meet Kerry, the Hartcliffe community activist on a mission
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“We’ve got so used to things being taken away from us, that a lot of people don’t know we’ve got rights.”

Fight For Fair Air Reports

Controversial gas power station refused at development committee
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Conrad Energy may now appeal the decision for the hugely unpopular plans for St Philip’s Marsh gas power plant.

Features

How child’s play is a serious matter
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A year since the council cut play services, we visit an adventure playground in Southmead.

Interviews Bristol And Beyond

George Monbiot: ‘Bristol airport expansion is like a gun pointing at the heart of the planet’
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Bristol is not doing enough after declaring climate emergency, says environmental journalist.

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Ice cream boss Lopresti is slavery risk and banned from business, following Cable exposé
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Following Cable investigations, Judge said: “I’m sure that there is a risk that you will commit a human trafficking or slavery offence.”

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Part three: A Somerset cider baron’s stolen art collection, heroin from Pakistan, two collapsed cases and a rinsed taxpayer
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The tale of how stolen art belonging to a cider baron and former MP was recovered by a man acquitted of the murder of Daniel Morgan.

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Part two: The troubled cop bent on solving the UK’s longest running murder case, and a key player in the phone hacking scandal
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An art heist in Somerset, the UK’s longest running murder case, and the phone hacking scandal - three sensational stories weave into one.

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Dark Arts: a true crime series
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Dark Arts is a tale of private investigators, corruption, political pressure, Pakistani heroin and a mansion in the Somerset hills revealed over three parts in a new Cable true crime series.

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Part one: The axe murder suspect, Somerset Tory cider baron and botched art heist police probe
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Dark Arts is a tale of private investigators, corruption, political pressure, Pakistani heroin and a mansion in the Somerset hills.

Housing Bristol

Student rent strike continues despite university affordable housing pledge
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Students will continue to withhold rent payments, despite a pledge from the University of Bristol to make a fivefold increase in affordable accommodation.

Reports Fight For Fair Air

Planning officers recommend APPROVAL of St Philip’s Marsh gas plant
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Local campaigners are dismayed that power generation could happen 80m from a nursery school.

Co-op Community Banner Home Page

Why the Cable is backing I Am Judah
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Behind the shaky video that caught national attention is an important wider story. The Cable is proud to get behind a film seeking to tell it.

Interviews

Exclusive interview: “Judah will not be silenced”
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Taser survivor Ras Judah Adunbi and filmmakers Bashart Malik and Zaheer Mamon are crowdfunding for a new film about racial injustice.

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Bristol doctors on air pollution: ‘The council isn’t taking things seriously enough’
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Medical professionals have a role to play as advocates for public health, but “system change” is necessary, says MedAct Bristol.

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Revealed: Evidence of racial profiling of thousands of British citizens by Home Office
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MPs call for change as British citizens are being stopped in their thousands for immigration crimes, Cable investigation finds.

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The contested future of St Philip’s Marsh
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A forgotten part of central Bristol is about to transform – but in whose interests?

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Bristol History Podcast: Bristol University and its Historians
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This week I met with Dr. John Reeks to discuss Bristol University and its historians. The university was founded in 1909 and dominates much of...

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Investigations

Dark Arts: a true crime series

Dark Arts is a tale of private investigators, corruption, political pressure, Pakistani heroin and a mansion in the Somerset hills revealed over three parts in a new Cable true crime series.

Revealed: Patients denied treatment by local NHS

GPs and clinical specialists are worried about patients being turned away because of local NHS policies.

Episode 4: Tattoo parlours, nightclubs and firebombs – how businesses were blackmailed

In the last episode of the Cornerman, the Cable lifts the lid on protection rackets from London to Bristol, revealing how local businesses were forced to pay gangsters for security.