Aphra Evans

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Area in Focus

When a lifeline bus route was axed in Avonmouth, the local community stepped in

After First Bus made cuts to services in 2024, local organisations came together to ensure a replacement was delivered. But when it comes to public transport, should the community be in the driving seat?

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Features

‘Like riding a wave – then the water cuts out’: Bristol’s TV workers hit by redundancies as companies close down

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

No to Section 60

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

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Aphra Evans and Alex Turner
Person speaking in a video with the headline "Tory government's disgraceful legacy of weaponising action on climate change" and a lower banner reading "GE2024: WHAT WE WANT".

General Election 2024

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

Extinction Rebellion activist Kathy says the Tory government's disgraceful legacy of weaponising action on climate change as part of culture wars.

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans
Individual speaking about the need for investment in youth services to end knife crime and youth violence, with text stating 'GE2024: What We Want', for The Bristol Cable.

General Election 2024

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

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Aphra Evans

General Election 2024

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

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Aphra Evans

Edition 31

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

The Bristol singer-songwriter and Ishmael Ensemble member discusses overcoming breast cancer at just 25 and launching her career as a solo artist.

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Aphra Evans

Edition 31

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

Independent businesses are being hammered by rising energy bills as cost of living rises force customers tighten their purse strings.

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Aphra Evans and Joe Skirkowski

Photography

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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.

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Features

‘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.

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

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.

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Aphra Evans, Neil Maggs and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

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.

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Aphra Evans, Adam Cantwell-Corn and Neil Maggs
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