Alon Aviram

Bristol activist could face life in prison for stopping deportation flight

Today is the first day of trial for 15 activists, including Bristol woman, who grounded deportation flight last year.

Anti-FGM investigations ‘discriminatory and undermining’, say parents

Bristol Somali parents feel they are being unfairly targeted and questioned by authorities over FGM.

Bristol’s offshore football clubs: offside or fair game?

Both of Bristol’s football clubs are owned by offshore companies. Should City and Rovers fans be concerned or simply grateful for the investment?

Watch: This Bristolian (and a toy fox) fought ISIS

This Bristol activist joined the Kurdish forces who are fighting ISIS, being attacked by the Turkish government and struggling for a more just society in Syria and the middle east.

Explore and help us investigate the Bristol properties owned offshore

From major hotels and office blocks, to flats and single car parking spaces, hundreds of properties in Bristol are owned through companies based overseas. Most of these companies are based in tax havens, marked by secrecy and opportunities for dodging taxes or hiding the origins of their money.

Hundreds of Bristol properties snapped up by offshore firms

Local pubs, hotels, flats and cinemas are owned by companies based in tax havens.

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.

Paradise Papers: watch exclusive interview with chairman of Glencore – world’s biggest mining company

The Cable grills Tony Hayward, former CEO of BP and current chairman of Glencore, which recently featured in the Paradise Papers.

Video: Behind the murder of Kamil Ahmad

The Cable spoke to Adil Jaifar, a translator and friend of Kamil, to find out how the disabled Kurdish asylum seeker fell through the gaps...

Campaign: stopping IMSI-catcher surveillance

The Cable is launching a national campaign calling for police to come clean on IMSI-catchers, and to ban this intrusive technology.

Bristol Uni named in UK spy agency tribunal

A tribunal has been told that UK spy agencies MI5 and MI6 may be breaking the law when they share data with foreign intelligence agencies...

Bristolians get ready for mass protest against austerity

Thousands of people are expected to show up at this Saturday’s protest