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.

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.

Area in Focus

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

Services for young people are few and far between in South Gloucestershire's largest town. But its recently formed local council has set aside nearly half of its annual budget in a bid to change that.

Alex Turner

Area in Focus

The car park kickabouts tackling anti-social behaviour in Hartcliffe

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

In February, hundreds of people queued up on Ashley Road for several days to register for NHS dentistry, as the local practice reopened. In this episode, we tell the story of the campaigners who fought to ensure their neighbourhood did not lose a vital health service.

Alex Turner, Mary Holditch and George Colwey

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

Area in Focus

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

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

Area in Focus

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

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

Area in Focus

‘My anxiety levels are off the scale’: Tempers fray as student houses multiply on estate

As residents and students clash on High Kingsdown estate, Bristol City Council is being urged to enforce its own targets and lower the number of HMOs in the area.

Billy Stockwell

Area in Focus

Funding, franchising and finding solutions: exploring south Bristol’s bus crisis

In the midst of bus cuts, local residents came together with councillors and transport providers to discuss transport in Bedminster. But is too much responsibility being put on the community to find the solution?

Daisy Steinhardt

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Area in Focus

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

‘My anxiety levels are off the scale’: Tempers fray as student houses multiply on estate

Funding, franchising and finding solutions: exploring south Bristol’s bus crisis

Area in Focus

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

‘My anxiety levels are off the scale’: Tempers fray as student houses multiply on estate

Funding, franchising and finding solutions: exploring south Bristol’s bus crisis

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