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Updates from The Bristol Cable about the co-operative, including milestones, callouts, membership announcements, and editorials.

Callouts

Have your say: What issues does Bristol most urgently need solutions to?

We're going to be investigating how we can develop cities fit for the future. Fill out this short survey to take part in this exciting new project that we hope can make a real difference to the city.

Have your say

The Bristol Cable

Callouts

What do you think about plans to redevelop the Galleries?

Plans to completely redevelop the Galleries are being drawn up. But what do you want to happen to that space?

What do you think

The Bristol Cable

Cable Community News

The Bristol Cable wins funding for ‘The Future of Cities’ solutions series

How can we develop cities fit for the future? Over the next year, the Cable will explore solutions being pioneered here in Bristol and around the world to answer this question.

The Bristol Cable

Cable Community News

Bristol’s mayor shouldn’t cherry pick which journalists attend his briefings

Local democracy reporters have been banned from attending Marvin Rees’ press conferences, sparking a boycott from local media outlets.

The Bristol Cable

Callouts

Share your experiences of living in a high-rise

Do you have a positive story about the social aspects of living in a high-rise apartment building? Are you having problems with crime or antisocial behaviour, or with maintenance in a tower block that’s in disrepair?

Have your say

The Bristol Cable

Bristol Mayoral Referendum

The Cable view: Time to build a new political system in Bristol

After voting to scrap the mayoral system, Labour and the Greens have the opportunity to form a progressive alliance. But Bristol’s political culture needs work, too.

The Bristol Cable

Bristol Mayoral Referendum

‘I feel so uninformed’: Cable readers on Bristol’s mayoral referendum

Does the mayor have too much power and exclude councillors? Or is having a mayor the best way to overcome stalemates in a politically divided city? Here’s what Cable readers had to say.

Matty Edwards

Bristol Mayoral Referendum

Not enough info for public ahead of mayoral referendum, campaigners say

At a debate co-hosted by the Cable, panellists discussed the pros and cons of the mayoral model, representation and how to overcome low engagement with local politics.

Matty Edwards

Bristol Mayoral Referendum

How Bristol is run isn’t just a political debate. It impacts our everyday lives.

We should care about the mayoral referendum in May because the importance of local democracy goes beyond the media and political bubble.

The Bristol Cable

Cable Community News

A goodbye for now from Adam, a Cable co-founder

Parting words after over 8 years of working at the forefront of community-owned media.

Adam Cantwell-Corn

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

What next for Bristol’s renting crisis?

Politicians and campaigners gathered to discuss how we can transform renting in Bristol and push the government to pursue long-promised reform.

Marianne Brooker and Matty Edwards

Features

The controversial Voi e-scooter trial will be extended. Here’s what Cable readers think.

A lifeline? A menace? Cable readers weigh in on safety concerns and how the scheme could be improved.

Aphra Evans

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