Bristol and Beyond

Opinion: Anna Campbell’s idealism and conviction should inspire us all

Ultimately, she was willing to give her own life so that others might be free. How many people can say that?

Lorna Stephenson

Bristol and Beyond

Bristol arms dealers are supplying Turkish forces who killed a Bristolian

A Bristol woman, Anna Campbell, has been killed by Turkish forces who are supplied by arms companies with bases in Bristol

Alon Aviram and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Bristol and Beyond

Bristol activist could face life in prison for stopping deportation flight

Today is the first day of trial for 15 activists, including Bristol woman, who grounded deportation flight last year.

Alon Aviram

Features

Mental health: weighing up the options

As social factors play a role in mental illhealth, why is it so often treated with medication alone?

Hannah Vickers

Bristol and Beyond

Plans to evict 2,000 people from Bath housing estate to go to High Court

Local people are fighting mass evictions and the demolition of 542-home Foxhill housing estate, where most affordable and social housing won't be replaced.

Tim Young

Bristol and Beyond

Bristol’s offshore football clubs: offside or fair game?

Both of Bristol’s football clubs are owned by offshore companies. Should City and Rovers fans be concerned or simply grateful for the investment?

Alon Aviram

Bristol and Beyond

Watch: This Bristolian (and a toy fox) fought ISIS

This Bristol activist joined the Kurdish forces who are fighting ISIS, being attacked by the Turkish government and struggling for a more just society in Syria and the middle east.

Adam Cantwell-Corn, Alon Aviram and Phil Clarke Hill

Bristol and Beyond

Pregabalin: Bristol’s ‘emerging’ prescription drug problem

As pregabalin and gabapentin are liberally prescribed by GPs — and putting drug users at risk on the black market — the government is taking action.

Matty Edwards

Bristol and Beyond

Opinion: Why progressive cities let cyclists run red lights

Knee-jerk reactions are putting lives at risk. It’s time to reform cycling laws based on sound science and not tabloid headlines, argues Simon Oxenham.

Simon Oxenham

Bristol and Beyond

Police snooping: a campaign for accountability on surveillance tech

The Cable is co-ordinating a national campaign to prompt a parliamentary inquiry into IMSI-catchers, and to get police to come clean on their use of the technology.

The Bristol Cable

Bristol and Beyond

Interview: Shackelia Jackson, human rights activist

The Cable spoke to Jamaican activist Shackelia Jackson, who has been campaigning against unlawful police killings after the murder of her brother in 2014.