Sean Morrison

Features

How talking clubs are getting Bristol blokes to open up and be vulnerable

I joined Talk Club and learned I can’t regulate my emotions. Then I got schooled by a therapist on toxic masculinity and dangerous role models. But how are you doing, out of 10?

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Features

Image of Jess Durdy, who took her own life in 2020 while in a mental health 'crisis house'

Lost opportunities: are inquests failing to prevent future deaths?

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Future of Cities

Illustration of solar panels feeding energy into community microgrids (credit: @laurence_ware_design)

People power: how can community electricity grids help tackle the energy crisis?

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

Two years after Bristol’s Kill the Bill unrest, protesters condemn ‘unjust’ sentences and the media narrative

Protesters descended on Bridewell police station this week to mark two years since a peaceful demonstration turned ugly. They were out in force in support of people put in prison for their involvement in the disorder.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Life in Lansdowne

After the fall: a death at Lansdowne Court

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Investigations

Rogue landlord yacht owner turns to Airbnb after fleecing tenants’ of their deposits

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

This Week in Bristol

This week in Bristol: Airport expansion granted by High Court – but campaigners vow to fight on

Expansion would see the airport increase its capacity from 10 million to 12 million passengers per year.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

‘We had to fight so hard to get here’, says aunt of boy struck with paddle as attacker convicted 

Police have apologised to 12-year-old Antwon Forrest and his family, who say the force’s initial poor response was because of the boy's race.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Investigations

Revealed: ‘Miss Conduct’ yacht owner is rogue landlord who spun ‘web of deceit’ to mislead tenants

Thomas Flight hid behind aliases and fake addresses, and deployed aggressive ‘agents’ to deny people living in his St Paul's flats their rights as tenants.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Edition 31

‘We need to keep the local currency dream alive’

The Bristol Pound’s managing director discusses the rise and fall of the local currency project, where it went wrong, and why we should keep experimenting.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

Bristol council was warned of polystyrene cladding dangers long before tower block blaze, so why didn’t it act sooner?

The Cable quizzes Bristol City Council's housing chief on the ‘urgent’ rollout of new high-rise fire safety measures, how much it’s all going to cost, and why the authority didn’t act faster.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

exposed polystyrene cladding ripped from Eccleston House, Bristol

Bristol tower block fire fuelled by flammable cladding that’s fitted to many of the city’s high rises

Polystyrene insulation contributed to the spread of a blaze at Eccleston House. The council has committed to removing the material from its high rises – but it could take a decade.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison
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