Decision time for Lawrence Hill power station

Planning committee to vote on plan labeled ‘environmental racism’ and a ‘subsidy cash machine’ tomorrow, amid vehement opposition.

A helping hand or an iron fist?

Muslim Bristolians on the Prevent policy

An ethics lesson for emergency housing

Bristol council this week announced it would be adopting ACORN’s Ethical Lettings Charter as the standard for housing across the city. What will it mean...

Comment: Connolly & Callaghan

This comment has been written by Connolly & Callaghan (C&C) in response to the ongoing dispute with Acorn Community Union over C&C’s emergency accommodation provision:...

Homeopathy: public money well spent?

Molly Asher asks why Bristol is one of the last places that homeopathy is still NHS funded, despite the practice being scientifically debunked.

“There are so many words that haven’t been said yet”

Bristol poet Shaun Clarke chats to fellow local writers about the creative process, and the challenge of making your name as an artist.

A Big Housing Conversation to address a big housing crisis.

Yesterday evening tenants, activists, experts and councillors from across Bristol met to discuss solutions to the city’s housing crisis at the first of a series...

Bristol Council to axe 1,000 staff

One sixth of the Bristol City Council workforce are offered voluntary redundancy in hope of closing £43m budget crisis.

We all need to talk, but not everyone can afford to

Talking therapies offer a lifeline for people with mental health problems – but for many are prohibitively expensive. Do you need to be rich in order to heal?

Do me a solid!

What does ‘solidarity’ mean for social and environmental campaigns in Bristol, and how can we work together better?

From cockfighting arena to protected green space

A history of a small hill in St Werburgh’s

Carillion’s Southmead secrets

The latest on a long-running Freedom of Information Act battle, to try and work out how Southmead hospital will end up costing over a billion pounds.