Hannah Vickers

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Features

‘Hundreds of paper cuts’: The mounting struggles of being trans in Bristol

With long waiting lists for treatment, negative media coverage and rising transphobia, everyday life is becoming harder for Bristol’s trans community

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Features

An illustration of two people whispering while another person walks past two toilet doors

‘I don’t want to use the trans loos’

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Hannah Vickers

Edition 42

A smiling woman in a red jacket works in a greenhouse surrounded by plants.

‘Children are totally different here’

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Hannah Vickers
Group of six cheerful young people posing together in front of a colorful graffiti wall with the word 'Hartcliffe' (partly obscured) on it.

Area in Focus

South Bristol’s new youth centre is technically in Knowle West. Can it deliver for kids from Hartcliffe too?

A huge Youth Zone, part of a national network, will be opening in 2026 by the Imperial Retail Park. But is it what this side of the city needs? And will young people feel welcome, no matter what postcode they live in?

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Area in Focus

Could Filwood Broadway finally get the cash boost it needs?

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

People's History

The single parents from Bristol who changed women’s lives

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Bristol Mayoral Referendum

‘£650k for a referendum? The mind boggles’: Southmead residents on the mayoral referendum

We talk to locals in Southmead about what matters to them ahead of the vote on whether to scrap Bristol's mayor.

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Hannah Vickers

Edition 29

The budget hotels where asylum seekers live in limbo

Bahara is one of hundreds of asylum seekers who live in small rooms in budget hotels on the edge of Bristol. She has no money and no idea when she will be moved, or where she will be sent.

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Hannah Vickers

Police and Crime bill

Mother of jailed Kill the Bill protester: ‘We never thought she’d get this long’ 

The mother of a woman recently sentenced to five and a half years after being found guilty of riot speaks out.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Police and Crime bill

Two women jailed after Kill the Bill violence

Jasmine York has been sentenced to 9 months for arson, after being found not guilt of riot, and Mariella Gedge-Roberts to 5.5 years for riot.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Bristol and the Climate Crisis

Locked out of nature: Making Bristol’s parks accessible to Disabled people

Being outdoors is vital to our wellbeing, even more so during a pandemic, but for Disabled people, getting out into nature is harder than ever.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Reports

‘The UK simply isn’t doing enough’ for Ukrainian refugees, say lawyers and campaigners

As Bristolians take to the streets in solidarity with Ukraine, charities prepare to support refugees at home and abroad.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers
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