Year: 2021

Reports

Colston statue dumped in harbour so council wouldn’t put it back up, defendant tells court

The case has been adjourned until 4 January, when the jury will hear closing speeches from the prosecution and defence, as well as the judge’s summing up of evidence.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

Descendant of enslaved person says Colston’s statue remaining in place was ‘profoundly shameful’

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

Council call off bailiffs after discovering an eviction blocked by community response was for a debt owed to them

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Cable Community News

5 things the Cable learned this year

As we reflect on 2021 and welcome 2022, one thing is clear: together, we can reshape the media and with it, our city. 

Marianne Brooker
Marianne Brooker

Features

Locals are dreading New Year’s Eve after a Bonfire Night party left their local nature reserve ‘trashed’

Jess Connett
Jess Connett

Reports

Colston ‘heavily involved’ in Britain’s most prolific slave trading company, David Olusoga tells statue-toppling trial

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

‘Marginalised people are worse affected by the housing crisis’: the Bristol renters facing discrimination and bias

Bristol City Council have pledged to stamp out discrimination in the private rental sector. But it’s not always clear cut.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Sexual harassment

The clinical psychologist specialising in sexual assault: ‘I’ve not had any clients with positive experiences of reporting’

With sexual violence under the spotlight again at Bristol University, a psychologist with clients who are survivors of assault speaks out.

Claire Plumbly
Claire Plumbly

Reports

Pulling down ‘monument to racism’ was right thing to do, Colston toppling trial hears

Trial day 3: The presence of the slave trader’s statue was like a hate crime, a defendant told the jury

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

Council failed to consider removing slaver’s statue despite ‘great concerns’, trial of Colston 4 hears

Trial day 2: The monument brought Bristol ‘face to face with painful, shameful aspects’ of its past, the court heard.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

Colston statue was ‘abhorrent offence’ to city, toppling trial hears

Trial day 1: Prosecutors told the court that the fact Colston was a slaver was ‘wholly irrelevant’ to the case.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Callouts

How do you feel about the not guilty verdict of the Colston 4?

We want to know what you think about the verdict in the landmark trial and what needs to happen next in the wider debate about statues and how we remember our past.

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