- Matty Edwards
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- matty@thebristolcable.org
- I cover social issues such as drugs, health and education. Get in touch if you've got a story.
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Coronavirus Bristol Banner Home Page Reports
This NHS worker is facing eviction, as Bristol rallies to help coronavirus heroes
A Bristol NHS trust is paying to put up frontline workers in hotels so they can self-isolate, while communities offer their support.
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Banner Home Page Features Coronavirus Bristol
‘The government threw us under the bus’: How Bristol food businesses are working to survive coronavirus
Small businesses, especially in hospitality, face bankruptcy as Bristol goes into self isolation, but some are finding innovative ways to respond to the crisis.
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Voices Edition 22 Banner Home Page
Down but not out: Voices of young people excluded from school
Often marginalised, rarely listened to or understood, the Cable has been working with young people who have left mainstream education to give them a voice.
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Solutions In Bristol Edition 22 Banner Home Page
Bristol: A city of solutions
By Matty Edwards, Hannah Vickers and Arvind Howarth
There’s already so much great work being done across the city to find solutions. Here’s just a few ...
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Edition 22 Co-op Community Banner Home Page Solutions In Bristol
We asked: What needs solving in Bristol?
By Matty Edwards and Lucas Batt
This issue is about solutions, so we asked the Cable’s 2,100 members what they most want to see solutions for. Here we explore some ideas for solutions to the biggest themes members raised: transport and housing.
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Exclusive: Special needs school to close amid police probe into care home
St Christopher’s residential home closed last year amid a child cruelty investigation. Now the much-criticised day school will shut its doors in March.
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Deputy Mayor wants pilot for safe consumption room in new drug strategy
More consultation is needed and city needs to work out how to fund it, but Asher Craig says it could be one way to reduce drug deaths, as a mock safe consumption room was on display last week.
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Experiment in democracy, as council to pilot citizens’ assemblies
By Adam Postans, Local Democracy Reporter and Matty Edwards
Bristolians could be gathered to make decisions on issues such as the climate crisis.
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Banner Home Page General Election 2019
The breakdown on the election in Bristol and South Gloucestershire
By Alon Aviram, Matty Edwards and Adam Cantwell-Corn
Big swings, no change and upsets: See the breakdown of the election results in Bristol and South Gloucestershire.
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Features Bristol North West General Election 2019
Beyond Brexit: Schools funding on the ballot paper
By Matty Edwards and Fatima Hudoon
The city’s most marginal seat Bristol North West has been hit hardest by cuts to school funding, but how will that play out as parents go to the polls?
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Banner Home Page General Election 2019 Investigations Bristol North West
Dodgy bar charts, misinformation and propaganda in Bristol North West
From old school tactics to creative use of social media adverts, the parties (and others) have been battling it out for Bristol’s most marginal seat.
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Edition 21 Banner Home Page Investigations
Too many Bristol teachers are leaving the profession. They tell us why.
Amid funding cuts and increased pressure to produce high grades, teachers are leaving the profession, while pupil numbers grow.