Councillors throw out airport expansion plans, but is this the end of the road?
North Somerset joins the ranks of Southampton and Stansted, whose local councillors also voted to reject airport expansion plans.
Exclusive: Special needs school to close amid police probe into care home
St Christopher’s residential home closed last year amid a child cruelty investigation. Now the much-criticised day school will shut its doors in March.
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Defiant, weary, resigned – meet the locals living under the flight path
With the decision to expand Bristol Airport being announced later tonight, we ask the people most directly affected about how they feel ahead of the verdict.
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Podcast Bristol History Podcast
Bristol History Podcast: Dr. Edson Burton In Conversation
This week I met with the writer, poet, historian and playwright Dr. Edson Burton. We discussed (among other things) how his historical outlook shapes his...
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‘Plans for new roads threaten Bristol’s countryside and limit action on the climate crisis’
By Steve Melia
The Local Transport Plan seems caught between tackling the climate crisis and building roads to boost economic growth, writes Dr Steve Melia.
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Residents slam ‘serious flaw’ in planning process in campaign to save threatened trees
Crucial questions remain unanswered in the ongoing fight to protect M32 Maples, including who owns the trees.
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Deputy Mayor wants pilot for safe consumption room in new drug strategy
More consultation is needed and city needs to work out how to fund it, but Asher Craig says it could be one way to reduce drug deaths, as a mock safe consumption room was on display last week.
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The challenge of pissing the right people off: inside Extinction Rebellion Bristol
By Joe Smith
Lots has been written about XR, with a mixture of admiration and irritation, hope for the future and concern about some of their methods. Here’s a look at how the Bristol branches work, and their plans for future actions.
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Final Bristol tower block with Grenfell-like cladding to have it removed
By Adam Postans, Local Democracy Reporter
Final Bristol tower bloc with Grenfell-like cladding to have it removed
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Experiment in democracy, as council to pilot citizens’ assemblies
By Adam Postans, Local Democracy Reporter and Matty Edwards
Bristolians could be gathered to make decisions on issues such as the climate crisis.
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Help us find solutions for Bristol
In the next edition and beyond, we plan to focus on exploring solutions to the biggest issues facing our city. Have your say.
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40 years ago, the far right in Bristol was faced down with music, pickets and ballots
By Colin Thomas
With far-right ideas on the rise again, Colin Thomas draws on first-hand accounts and archive material to tell a story from a generation ago.
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Banner Home Page People's History Edition 21
The tale of Bristol’s fascist-sympathising, disability rights-promoting first woman MP
Retracing a mission to uncover the elusive and conflicted past of Bristol’s largely forgotten, fascist-sympathising, disability rights-promoting first woman MP
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Another year in building a new media. Here’s to many more. We need it!
This year was a big one for us. Because every year we exist is a big one.
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Introducing: our first ‘early career journalists’
By Cait Crosse, Fatima Hudoon and Priyanka Raval
We’ve hired two up-and-coming Bristol reporters.
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People's History Photography Banner Home Page Edition 21
Time flies by when you’re smashing teeth on concrete: Dean Lane Skatepark through the ages
Archive photos from a recent film about Bedminster's beloved skatepark, as the filmmaker reflects on why it still means so much to local people today.
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What’s the council ever done for us?
By Alex Turner
Everyone loves to have a good moan about the council. But they still provide vital public services. Here’s a few.
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Burning waste – green energy or just hot air?
A new waste incinerator is being built in Avonmouth, but critics say the industry is polluting and contradicts climate aims
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This feels like prison’: we need to talk about school exclusions
Too many children in Bristol are subject to exclusions, which disproportionately impact those from BME and working-class communities, and have been linked to rising youth violence. The system needs to change.
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Local rapper Kilaze talks hip-hop, art and life
Rapper Kilaze is a stalwart of the city’s music scene both through his own releases and his support of homegrown talent. Two decades into his career, he’s still got ‘so much to talk about’.
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.