Michal Grant

Edition 45

Dividends, Debt… Direct Action

It’s been nearly 40 years since Wessex Water was privatised. Since then the company has been loaded with debt and dumped sewage into our waterways while paying out huge dividends. What will it take to change course?

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Michal Grant

Edition 44

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The Bristol Way of Death

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Michal Grant

Edition 43

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On the road in Filton – Bristol’s arms trade quarter

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Michal Grant
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Edition 42

Revealed: How the arms industry is targeting Bristol’s secondary schools

From ‘colour your own F-35’ to missile simulators, arms companies are promoting STEM careers in schools, but obscuring their role in the bloody global arms trade. Teachers, union reps, and campaign groups are pushing back

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Michal Grant

Area in Focus

The car park kickabouts tackling anti-social behaviour in Hartcliffe

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Michal Grant

People's History

From dubious mermaids to harsh prison conditions: how Fred Little documented Bristol a century ago

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Michal Grant

Features

‘He was our godfather’: Bristol musicians remember Mark Stewart

It’s a year since the Pop Group singer, a revered figure of the post-punk era, died aged 62. Beyond the uncompromising legacy of his own releases, his influence remains etched into his home city’s musical DNA.

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Michal Grant

Features

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‘You needed young people’: how one man nurtured a community on an east Bristol allotment site

Tenants of Bristol’s sought-after allotments are pushing back hard on council proposals to hike fees. But back in the 1980s, plots in Eastville at Royate Hill were unloved and at risk – until Mike Feingold took custody of the land.

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Michal Grant and Naz Mahmoudzadeh

Features

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‘We need people to step up now’: the Bristolians working to save cricket from climate change

Cricket's past is tangled with colonialism, a key root of climate change. Now, it's the pitch sport most at risk from global heating – but a group based in Bristol are working to highlight the threats and protect its future.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Features

Image of young people on the streets of St Pauls Carnival in 1985 (credit: Andy 'Beezer' Beese)

‘Crazy summers, days of rage’: how Beezer’s camera immortalised 1980s Bristol

Long before the ‘Bristol sound’ label was applied to the potent sonic brew bubbling from the city in the 90s, Andy ‘Beezer’ Beese moved with the bass-heavy beats of the 80s to photograph the era's pulses, parties and protests.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Features

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‘I was a prisoner of my mind’: how a Bristol charity is helping to cut reoffending among young men

Key4Life, based in Easton, is helping to reduce youth reoffending in Bristol through an innovative rehab programme aimed at men under 30 who are leaving prison or at risk of going inside.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Features

‘We don’t want children leaving school illiterate’: how schools need to step up for dyslexic students

Mike Jones was bullied at school in the 1970s because he couldn't spell his name. Almost four decades later, he developed a program that now helps thousands of dyslexic children learn.

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Michal Grant
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