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General Election 2019 Filton And Bradley Stoke
Filton and Bradley Stoke: What you need to know for the 2019 General Election
Conservative MP Jack Lopresti has held this seat since 2010, but Labour's increase in the vote share over the last two elections is challenging the incumbent.
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Filton And Bradley Stoke General Election 2019 Reports
Local Tory MP takes donation from private jet mogul
The donation comes as the aviation industry is likely to come under scrutiny during the general election for its impact on the climate crisis.
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Bristol And Beyond Banner Home Page
From St Pauls to Syria: Why this young woman and Kurds in Bristol are struggling for justice from afar
We spent the morning with a Kurdish activist struggling for peace and justice in north eastern Syria
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Investigations Banner Home Page Ice Cream Slavery Case
Revealed: An anti-slavery court order was made against local boss Lopresti. Here’s evidence it may be being breached
By Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alon Aviram
The ice cream boss was banned from managing staff after an investigation found workers living in slave-like conditions
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Reports Removing Rough Sleepers
Bristol will not be joining 11 councils refusing to co-operate on plans to deport rough sleepers
The council and homelessness charity St Mungo’s are participating in the programme.
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Film Banner Home Page Ideas And Action
Watch: Deliveroo Orders Rejected – a short documentary
By Adam Cantwell-Corn, Melanie Vaxevanakis and The treatmentworx
The gig economy is getting bigger. But some workers are getting organised. In 2018, Bristol workers joined in.
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Reports Banner Home Page Ice Cream Slavery Case Investigations
Exclusive: Council to “urgently” investigate Lopresti landlord business, but ice cream vans untouched for now
By Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alon Aviram
Announcement follows the Cable’s investigation and police action into the notorious landlords and businessmen.
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Investigations Banner Home Page Lower Banner Home Page Ice Cream Slavery Case
Finally exposed: How Lopresti ice cream boss kept men in slave-like conditions, tenants and families in squalor. But people spoke out.
By Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alon Aviram
In a Cable investigation spanning five years, a shocking story has been uncovered.
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Banner Home Page Features Edition 19
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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Reports Ice Cream Slavery Case Banner Home Page
Ice cream boss Lopresti is slavery risk and banned from business, following Cable exposé
By Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alon Aviram
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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Investigations Banner Home Page
Revealed: Evidence of racial profiling of thousands of British citizens by Home Office
By Adam Cantwell-Corn and Charles Boutaud
MPs call for change as British citizens are being stopped in their thousands for immigration crimes, Cable investigation finds.
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Revealed: How the council flogged off public land in the face of austerity
Libraries, fields, offices: All sold off to fund the cost of austerity
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Edition 18 Banner Home Page Investigations Lower Banner Home Page
How two survivors of abuse were failed. And how they fought back.
A story of two women on the sharp end of organisational failures, who refused to be victims.
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Every week in Patchway, dozens of people face the long arm of the hostile environment
By Georgia Edwards and Adam Cantwell-Corn
At a drab police station on the outskirts of Bristol, people of all backgrounds face a routine of fear with some standing in solidarity by their side.
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Banner Home Page Boot Out Bailiffs Reports
Bad news for bailiffs, good news for citizens as council slashes use
Use of bailiffs has fallen off a cliff since July.
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Features Edition 17 Banner Home Page
Hundreds of Bristolians face landlords with an ultimate legal power. But a rebellion is growing
A fightback is brewing against a piece of legislation that epitomises the difficulties of having a secure home.
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The far-right bomb maker who wasn’t charged with terrorism offences
By Alon Aviram and Adam Cantwell-Corn
He built bombs and published racist, far-right views online. Why wasn't Matthew Glynn charged with terrorism offences?
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Reports Ice Cream Slavery Case
Lopresti ice cream bosses slavery trial date set
By Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alon Aviram
Salvatore and Roberto Lopresti face modern day slavery charges.
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UPDATE: Man detained in Easton immigration raid released after “further checks”
The raid made national news as a show of dissent to the ‘hostile environment’ immigration regime.
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Banner Home Page Housing Crisis Transparency Investigations
Revealed: The aristocrats behind Totterdown’s unaffordable tower blocks
Bristol’s red hot housing crisis is attracting a globetrotting elite. One owns this castle.
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100 people blockaded an immigration raid for seven hours in Easton last night
People took to the streets of Easton in an act of defiance against the government’s ‘hostile environment’ immigration enforcement regime.
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Banner Home Page Ideas And Action Reports
The day gig economy workers struck back
By Thomas Katan and Adam Cantwell-Corn
A powerful display by precarious workers
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Update: Loprestis’ ‘No plea’ in slavery case
By Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alon Aviram
Ice cream bosses face will face Crown Court next month
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Exclusive: Lopresti ice cream bosses face slavery charges
By Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alon Aviram
Salvatore and Robert Lopresti face charges of forced labour.
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