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Prejudice against Gypsies and Travellers is still the last ‘respectable’ racism, but is it getting worse?

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Opinion

Opinion: ‘Black Excellence’ shouldn’t hinge on white ideas of success
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Achievements should be celebrated, but we should create our own metrics of success.

City Film Ideas And Action

Bristol Radical Film Festival: Q&A with Elizabeth Mizon
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Bristol Radical Film Festival is back! We talked to one of the organisers, Elizabeth Mizon, about what this year’s festival has to offer.

Reports Addicted Bristol: Life And Death

Landmark medicinal cannabis reforms don’t go far enough, say campaigners
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Specialist doctors – but not GPs – will be able to give out cannabis on prescription from November.

City

Celebrating Bristol
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Nightclubs, neighbours and newsagents - how people are making the city a better place to live.

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Crack, heroin, Spice: A snapshot of Bristol’s street drug scene
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A journey through our city’s streets reveals an eye-opening world of vulnerable people.

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Out of the frying pan and into the fire: A refugee’s story of the fight for the right to work
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The barriers government put in the way of people working when they come to the UK

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The day gig economy workers struck back
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A powerful display by precarious workers

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Taking the council to court over cuts
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Parent power wins radical overhaul of special needs services Two Bristol families have taken a stand against cuts – and won. The anonymous parents have...

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Update: Loprestis’ ‘No plea’ in slavery case
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Ice cream bosses face will face Crown Court next month

City Reports

Exclusive: Lopresti ice cream bosses face slavery charges
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Salvatore and Robert Lopresti face charges of forced labour.

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Bristol’s recovery community: overcoming addiction together
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In early September, Bristol hosted Recovery Festival - a celebration of people who have overcome addiction. Craig Johnson explains the importance of community when services are being stripped back.

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Podcast: Football Lads Alliance – The Rise of Fascism in Football?
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Welcome to episode three of W.G. Grace’s Sports Surgery. Terry and Duke sit down with Dick Gherkin from cult podcast, From Bristol With Love, to...

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“This isn’t over”: Hundreds march to save Hamilton House
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Coexist’s Hamilton House adventure appears to be up but a new opportunity for community ownership is on the horizon.

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Bristol History Podcast // Bristol’s Public Memory of Slavery
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This week I met with Dr. Jessica Moody of Bristol University to discuss the ways in which Bristol has publicly addressed its involvement in the...

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From poverty to luxury: hidden history behind the Blackberry Hill housing development
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Residents of the luxury Blackberry Hill housing developments now under construction on Manor Road in Fishponds will be adding a chapter to a colourful and...

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How we’re creating the next Cable campaign together
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We asked members what our next campaign should be… and you came up with some challenging and powerful ideas.

Reports

Council rejects Tory motion on unauthorised Traveller encampments
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Councillor for Stoke Bishop, John Goulandris calls Bristol a ‘soft touch’ on Travellers and wants the council to expand enforcement powers.

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Falling into crack addiction: “Wrong place, wrong time”
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The story of a young woman whose downward spiral into crack addiction and a controlling relationship all took place under one roof.

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Investigations

Revealed: NHS staff in Bristol are being worked until they’re sick with stress

In the 70th year of the NHS, an investigation by the Cable reveals that those who care for the nation are in need of serious attention.

We’re launching a campaign to stop the council setting bailiffs on Bristolians. Here’s why.

Using muscle to collect debts is as old as money itself. But the Mayor and Bristol City Council must use fairer and more effective ways. It's time to #bootoutbailiffs.

Council properties flogged to secretive offshore companies

Twenty-eight properties owned by Bristol City Council are being leased to companies based in secretive tax havens, an investigation by the Cable reveals.