Revealed: Private mental health ward for children in Bristol to close
The Priory Bristol says staffing problems are the reason behind the closure of Banksy ward, the only of its kind in south west England.
Bristol activists spearhead the call for reparations for the legacy and current damage of slavery and colonialism
As Green councillor Cleo Lake petitions Bristol’s mayor, Marvin Rees, to lobby the UK government about reparations, we explore what that means, and talk to the Bristol activists involved.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Marti Burgess, the first Black Merchant Venturer
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
Marti is the first Black person to join the Merchant Venturers, the 500 year old club of slave trader Edward Colston.
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Bristol History Podcast: The Bristol Bus Boycott
This week I met with Professor Madge Dresser to discuss the Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963. The boycott against the Bristol Omnibus Company over its racist employment policy was the first black-led protest against racial discrimination in post-war Britain. We explored race relations in Bristol around the time of the boycott, and why its legacy continues to resonate so strongly today.
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Developer withdraws planning proposals for ‘grim’ and ‘Stalinist’ St Pauls flats
By Adam Postans, Local Democracy Reporter
Controversial plans for a four-storey block of flats in St Pauls have been withdrawn. The boss of developers Clayewater Homes says they spent “a lot...
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Inside Bristol’s civil rights powerhouse
The work of civil rights lawyers is all too often unrelenting and exasperating. Meet one firm of dogged lawyers in Bristol making a difference.
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Ex-undercover cop secretly ran business with man connected to gangsters
By Adam Postans, Local Democracy Reporter
The ex-undercover cop hid the fact he was running a second-hand car dealership with a man who had “very dangerous” known associates in organised crime. He denied the allegations against him and claimed senior members of Avon and Somerset Police tried to discredit him.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Delroy Hibbert
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
Delroy Hibbert is a Black Lives Matter backer. But he also attended the ‘All Lives Matter’ demonstration in Bristol the week after Colston fell.
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Sites set up during coronavirus offer hope for new understanding between Bristol’s vehicle-dwelling communities and the council
By Andreas Nicolaou and Jack Clements
In the midst of the pandemic, Bristol council has created two new temporary sites for the city’s vehicle-dwellers. Insiders’ perspectives show just how beneficial providing land in this way is for these ever-diversifying communities.
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Covid-19 brings difficult times for Trans people in Bristol as government expected to ditch reforms
By Sage Brice
Accessing trans healthcare was already a difficult and lengthy process and during the pandemic, it’s virtually ground to a halt. It comes as the government is expected to announce it has ditched plans to allow trans people to self-identify.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Cleo Lake
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
Season 1, Episode 1: Founding member of Countering Colston, Green party city councillor and former Lord Mayor, Cleo Lake has a lot to say on the big questions of politics, race, history and the future of Bristol and beyond.
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Third mysterious fire in two years at Strachan & Henshaw, ‘The Office’, building
By Alon Aviram
The fire which broke out on the ground floor is being treated as deliberate. It follows a blackmail attempt on the landlord and a separate, violent assault on the ex-landlord.
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Reports Fight For Fair Air City
‘Bigger and bolder’ clean air plans could reduce Bristol pollution to legal levels by 2022
By Amanda Cameron, Local Democracy Reporter
Mayor Marvin Rees says that the coronavirus pandemic has made alternative plans possible for Bristol.
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Bristol nurseries ‘are being asked to run a bankruptcy model’ during coronavirus
We talk to a nursery manager about the financial impact of coronavirus and the future of early years provision in Bristol.
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Watch: Early doors – A story of the pubs reopening
By Aphra Evans and Adam Cantwell-Corn
In this short film, we follow a pub manager and punters as the pubs emerge from coronavirus lockdown.
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£17 million could be wiped off value of Bristol Energy
By Amanda Cameron, Local Democracy Reporter
The Labour-run council is trying to sell Bristol Energy, which has soaked up £35 million of council tax payers’ money and posted official losses of £32.5 million since it was set up five years ago.
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Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services Opinion
Opinion: ‘The NHS sends too many mental health patients to hospital for expensive, ineffective care’
By Keir Harding
People are being sent away to private mental health providers for specialist treatment, but this often means poorer outcomes at higher costs, says occupational therapist Keir Harding.
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Losing myself: my experiences of psychiatric hospitals
My time in hospitals kept me alive when I was unable to do that myself, but it came with its own set of wounds. Now, I want to be part of changing the system.
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Watch: Lessons from lockdown – how can Bristol battle air pollution?
As traffic on Bristol’s streets returns to normal following lockdown, air pollution levels have returned to illegal levels. What can we do about it?
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An ode to Bristol’s boozers before coronavirus
By Hannah Vickers and Colin Moody
Colin Moody takes a loving look at Bristol's beloved pubs, in this pre-coronavirus photoessay.
Investigations
The unsolved fire at The Office and the chequered history of a rogue landlord
Five months after the devastating fire at Speedwell’s Strachan and Henshaw building, ‘The Office’ tower is being turned into flats. The Cable investigates former owner Alan Dykes and his run-ins with the law.
Revealed: Thousands of kids are being put in isolation, fuelling schools debate
A Bristol Cable investigation can reveal Bristol schools are sending children to isolation 1,000 times a week, shedding light on the controversial form of discipline where children are removed from class.
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.