Area in Focus

The Cable wants to tell more stories from different parts of Bristol. That’s why, every three months we’re getting out into a new area, listening to locals and telling stories that matter.

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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

Area in Focus

Exterior view of the Giant Goram pub with significant roof damage. A 'For Sale' sign is displayed in front of the building, with a parked car nearby.

They built a huge wind turbine, but can they bring Lawrence Weston’s last pub back from the dead?

Alex Turner

Area in Focus

youth bus opening ceremony, several young people gathered around two adults who are about to cut a read ribbon all in front of a colourful bus.

Somewhere safe: how a modest cash boost could have a big impact on youth services in Kingswood

Alex Turner

Area in Focus

The car park kickabouts tackling anti-social behaviour in Hartcliffe

Football charity the Robins Foundation responded to reports of antisocial behaviour outside Hartcliffe’s Morrisons by organising football sessions in its car park. It’s led to a claimed 60% drop in complaints.

Michal Grant

General Election 2024

Listen: Area in Focus – will Rees‑Mogg lose to Norris in North East Somerset and Hanham?

Mary Holditch, Alex Turner and George Colwey

Podcasts

Listen: Area in Focus – the fight for the St Paul’s dentist’s

Alex Turner, Mary Holditch and George Colwey

Area in Focus

A woman and a man stand smiling in the hall of a community centre

How St Paul’s residents fought to make the Malcolm X Centre a space for the community

The Malcolm X Centre on Ashley Road is one of Bristol’s most well-known and treasured community venues. What’s less well remembered is the struggle local people went through to lay the foundations for that status.

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

Area in Focus

Listen: Kingswood locals care about everything but a ‘meaningless’ by-election

In this episode of our Area in Focus series, we explore how the border town’s high street is struggling and, thanks to boundary changes, it’s facing a political identity crisis

Mary Holditch, George Colwey and Sean Morrison

Area in Focus

St Paul’s, through the eyes of the reverend patrolling for peace

For years, the Reverend Dawnecia Palmer – a United Nations Peacemaker – has worked on Bristol's inner-city streets. After a recent spate of stabbings rocked St Paul's, she's praying for an end to the 'pandemic of the blade'.

Priyanka Raval

Area in Focus

A pedestrianised street corner with tables and chairs, and period shopfronts in the background.

Clifton eyesore may undergo partial ‘community buyout’

After a decade of failed attempts to redevelop the former WH Smith building on Clifton Down Road, the owner is now in talks with local residents interested in buying back part of the site.

Matty Edwards

Podcasts

A view down a residential street with a green area on the left and houses on the right.

Listen: Why are people so attached to their cars? Bristol prepares for its first ‘liveable neighbourhood’

The council will soon launch a formal consultation on the controversial East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood, before the trial traffic-restriction scheme comes in early next year.

Matty Edwards and George Colwey

Area in Focus

Revealed: Renters living in mouldy flats handed steep rent hike by millionaire London landlords

Residents of the iconic Queens Court housing block in Clifton are fed up with living in poor conditions and their complaints being ignored, a Cable investigation has uncovered.

Matty Edwards

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Area in Focus

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

They built a huge wind turbine, but can they bring Lawrence Weston’s last pub back from the dead?

Somewhere safe: how a modest cash boost could have a big impact on youth services in Kingswood

The car park kickabouts tackling anti-social behaviour in Hartcliffe

Listen: Area in Focus – will Rees‑Mogg lose to Norris in North East Somerset and Hanham?

Listen: Area in Focus – the fight for the St Paul’s dentist’s

How St Paul’s residents fought to make the Malcolm X Centre a space for the community

Listen: Kingswood locals care about everything but a ‘meaningless’ by-election

St Paul’s, through the eyes of the reverend patrolling for peace

Clifton eyesore may undergo partial ‘community buyout’

Listen: Why are people so attached to their cars? Bristol prepares for its first ‘liveable neighbourhood’

Revealed: Renters living in mouldy flats handed steep rent hike by millionaire London landlords

Area in Focus

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

They built a huge wind turbine, but can they bring Lawrence Weston’s last pub back from the dead?

Somewhere safe: how a modest cash boost could have a big impact on youth services in Kingswood

The car park kickabouts tackling anti-social behaviour in Hartcliffe

Listen: Area in Focus – will Rees‑Mogg lose to Norris in North East Somerset and Hanham?

Listen: Area in Focus – the fight for the St Paul’s dentist’s

How St Paul’s residents fought to make the Malcolm X Centre a space for the community

Listen: Kingswood locals care about everything but a ‘meaningless’ by-election

St Paul’s, through the eyes of the reverend patrolling for peace

Clifton eyesore may undergo partial ‘community buyout’

Listen: Why are people so attached to their cars? Bristol prepares for its first ‘liveable neighbourhood’

Revealed: Renters living in mouldy flats handed steep rent hike by millionaire London landlords

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