Alon Aviram

Security tips for the tech-phobe

...Because someone, somewhere has access to everything you ever do online.

The beating heart in IKEA car park

Hidden away in the shadow of IKEA, the Eastville Social Club is still serving local communities.

Police remove documents following Cable investigation

But they’ve been downloaded here… “The longer the policy of denial of existence of these capabilities go on, the worse it is for police, citizens,...

Revealed: Bristol’s police and mass mobile phone surveillance

Evidence points to Avon and Somerset Constabulary and five other forces having bought devices that can spy on thousands of phones at a time...

Avon and Somerset Police rank worst for hate crime action

Avon and Somerset Police are ranked worst among the nation’s 13 largest police forces in taking action against hate crime.

Power through art: Michele Curtis

Sitting by the harbourside up and coming portrait artist Michele Curtis talks art, politics and ambition.

The profitable world of housing Bristol’s homeless

Bristol’s biggest provider of emergency family accommodation had been evicting settled tenants to turn flats into high rent emergency housing. We look further into the murky, profitable world of housing the city’s homeless.

Filton MP throws Westminster party for Bahrain

Jack Lopresti MP, loyal advocate of arms exports, hosts Westminster party celebrating Bahraini-UK relations – as more human rights abuses emerge in the Middle Eastern...

The stories of tenants evicted by Connolly & Callaghan

Pregnant, made homeless, and refusing to leave: Meet the tenants evicted by Connolly & Callaghan, Bristol’s “ethical” emergency housing provider.

“Ethical” landlords doorstepped by community union

Connolly & Callaghan paid a visit by ACORN as Council look into issue.

Bristol firm profiting from housing homeless – by kicking other tenants out

Bristol emergency housing provider evicting settled tenants and converting homes into high-rent emergency accommodation More on this story: Meet the evicted tenants & Landlords doorstepped by...

Jobs for guns: Bristol MP’s ties to defense contractors

Local MP Jack Lopresti has a friendly relationship with defence contractors. But are local interests being subordinated to those of multinational arms companies?