Aphra Evans

A man in a dark hoodie standing in a room with a mural of a cityscape in the background.

No to Section 60

Watch: How Section 60 contributes to rifts between police and the communities they serve

Youth workers, community leaders and the founder of a police monitoring group explain the damaging and traumatising impact of controversial 'suspicionless' search powers in Bristol.

VIDEO: What We Want – Meaningful climate action not culture wars

VIDEO: What We Want – An investment in young people and services to end knife crime and youth violence

General Election 2024

VIDEO: What We Want – Bristol’s frontline workers reveal their priorities for the next government

We're only a few days away from a general election. In a short video series, frontline workers explain how their sector has fared under the Tories – and what changes they want to see.

Edition 31

‘I can’t die, I’ve not made my solo album’: Holysseus Fly on overcoming cancer and looking forward

Image of Abi Hill, Loco Klub's venue manager, with programming manager Sam Patching (credit: Aphra Evans)

Edition 31

Bristol venues brace for another challenging winter in face of energy and cost of living crises

Bristol goes to the ball

Ballroom culture, which Bristol photographer Darren Shepherd describes as 'the personification of queer resilience and queer joy', has been enjoying a resurgence in our city.

‘It’s a double stigma of menstruation and mental illness’

PMDD is a debilitating and poorly-understood condition affecting one in 20 people with periods, 34% of whom have attempted to take their own life.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with cricketing legend David ‘Syd’ Lawrence, the first Black president of a county club who’s had bananas thrown at him on the field

Fast bowls, nightclubs and bodybuilding – Syd Lawrence is an outspoken local sporting icon who's been around the block in Bristol.

Listen: Why Reach PLC’s Bristol Live journalists are striking, with National Union of Journalists’ Paul Breeden

A thousand journalists are taking strike action across the country at Reach PLC, one of the big three conglomerates that dominate the regional news market and who own Bristol Live.

Police officer who had sex with drunk woman on duty cleared of misconduct

Lee Cocking stood accused of sleeping with a drunk woman in his police car, but claimed it was sexual assault. On Friday he was cleared of gross misconduct.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked on stopping the ‘school to prison pipeline’, and why teachers may be on the picket lines soon, with educator Lana Crosbie

Lana Crosbie is a senior school leader, race specialist and equality campaigner with over 20 years’ experience teaching in schools.