Feeling undervalued, unheard – but determined. Talking to doctors on Bristol’s pickets today.

Today junior doctors in Bristol joined thousands of their colleagues across England in striking against the proposed changes to their contracts by the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. The Bristol Cable joined one of the pickets.....

A people’s history of St Pauls

St Pauls is a famous neighbourhood. But newcomers to Bristol are most likely to have heard of it for one of two reasons.

Supported housing’s future hangs in the balance

Unless the government protects them from its housing benefit cuts, homes for vulnerable people could start shutting down in Bristol next year.

Library staff furious about written exam ‘selection process’

A new requirement for all Bristol library assistants to undergo formal written exams as part of a 'selection process' for their own jobs has left staff angry and offended, according to emails leaked to the Cable.

The council’s heavies are coming round…

Bailiff use is rising in Bristol, but why?

Don’t blame hipsters or migrants for the housing crisis..

Exclusive Cable analysis shows the council needs to up the ante in the fight for a liveable city

Destination unknown: Trinity Mirror, the Bristol Post and the erosion of local media

Taking the ‘local’ out of Local World, and the journalism out of our media

An end to blind eyes around human trafficking?

In a potentially groundbreaking case, Bristol council has taken responsibility for the welfare of a trafficked woman. Will it signal a change?

Football has a problem. Where are the tools to fix it?

How can we help our football teams reflect the diversity of our local communities?

Tony Blair is right to call himself a nincompoop,

but not because of the Freedom of Information Act

Why is my curriculum white?

Students in Bristol are challenging the status quo of what and how we learn.

A place to shoot up

How the UK’s drug policy is lagging behind other countries’ “Injection rooms for addicts to open next year in drug law change,” says Irish minister