- Matty Edwards
- I cover social issues such as drugs, health and education. Get in touch if you've got a story.
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- matty@thebristolcable.org
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Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services Investigations Banner Home Page
Revealed: The true story behind the closure of privately-run mental health ward at Priory Bristol
Workers from a children’s ward at Priory Hospital Bristol speak out about regular incidents of self-harm and alleged attacks on staff, following a six-month Cable investigation.
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Inside Bristol schools during a new academic year like no other
Struggling to access Covid-19 testing, helping disadvantaged kids catch up, and anxieties about another lockdown: Bristol school leaders speak of the challenges of reopening to a new normal.
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Bristol students ‘playing catch up’ to get uni places after A-levels fiasco
The government’s U-turn to award teacher assessed grades came after days of intense stress. In one shocking case, a Bristol school saw 84% of its year 13s’ results downgraded.
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Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services Banner Home Page Reports
Revealed: Private mental health ward for children in Bristol to close
The Priory Bristol says staffing problems are the reason behind the closure of Banksy ward, the only of its kind in south west England.
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Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services Banner Home Page Investigations
Revealed: Failures in care for man who took his life at private mental health unit
Dominic Vickars was just 25 when he died while at Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke in Weston-super-Mare, a private hospital part-funded by the NHS. Using evidence from the inquest and accounts from his family, we tell the story of how he was let down.
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Co-op Community Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services
Inside: Private mental health services in Bristol investigated
By Matty Edwards and Fatima Hudoon
Frontline workers and families speak out as the Cable investigates why private sector involvement is growing and what impact it’s having on people in Bristol.
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Help our reporting on private mental health services (member log-in required)
By Matty Edwards and Fatima Hudoon
We're about to publish a new series about private mental health services in Bristol, focusing on why people are being treated by for-profit comapanies rather than the NHS. We need your input.
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Coronavirus In Bristol Banner Home Page Frontline Fighters
Doctor’s scathing criticism of PPE guidance that has put NHS staff at risk
The local NHS has responded well to the pandemic, but inadequate PPE has led to staff being hospitalised, according to a Bristol doctor working on the frontline of coronavirus.
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Clifton care home loses third of residents during Covid-19 outbreak
Seven people with coronavirus symptoms have died at Carlton Mansions in Clifton, the Cable has been told.
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Revealed: Bristol care workers speak out amid confusion and scramble for PPE during covid-19 outbreaks
By Matty Edwards and Priyanka Raval
New data reveals 60 care home residents have died from coronavirus in two weeks, but some homes with outbreaks haven't had more residents tested.
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Care work: What next for the forgotten frontline of coronavirus?
By Priyanka Raval and Matty Edwards
As care homes are a new epicentre of the pandemic, we celebrate the historically overlooked, undervalued care sector and ask what needs to change after the pandemic.
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Coronavirus In Bristol Scrutinising Institutions
UPDATE: Housing association U-turn means Bristol Uni students spared £1,500 rent payment
First year students at the University of Bristol were told they had to pay rent despite the university closing down because their halls were run by a private provider.
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Bristol’s NHS trusts scaling up critical care capacity while hospital admissions remain stable
Internal emails said one of Bristol’s hospital trusts had planned to triple capacity, but local NHS bosses have declined to reveal more detail on their preparations.
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Coronavirus testing finally announced for Bristol’s key workers, but more rises in deaths expected for weeks
In an in-depth interview, Bristol director of public health says the south west is responding well to the crisis despite criticisms of the UK’s handling of the outbreak.
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Private Bristol student housing company refusing rent relief despite coronavirus exodus
Students in university-owned halls aren’t being charged if they’ve moved out, but a group of first-year students in privately owned halls have fallen through the cracks and may be forced to cough up £1,500.
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Frontline Fighters Reports Banner Home Page Coronavirus In Bristol
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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Coronavirus In Bristol Herd Community Banner Home Page Features
‘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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Solutions In Bristol Edition 22 Banner Home Page Co-op Community
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.
