Meet the volunteers easing pressure on the NHS

With NHS staff overworked and overstretched, hundreds of volunteers are helping reduce the load.

Council awards new youth services contracts two months late

After months of delays, Bristol's reduced youth services will finally launch in June.

Hamilton House: ‘This is an incredibly important moment for Bristol’s future’

The fate of Stoke Croft’s Hamilton House encapsulates whether Bristol’s culture can survive the house building drive, says tenant.

Bristol: Highest number of mental health patient preventable deaths

Highly vulnerable patients have died after NHS failings. Why?

Hamilton House evictions begin as controversial development looms

Around 150 tenants forced out, in the latest chapter of the long dispute over the future of the Stokes Croft cultural hub.

Women who built Bristol: ‘We were challenging all the time’

A look at some of the great women who helped shape this city.

Anti-FGM investigations ‘discriminatory and undermining’, say parents

Bristol Somali parents feel they are being unfairly targeted and questioned by authorities over FGM.

Bristol’s vibrant urban farming scene

Urban goats, mushrooms and Bristolian salad: how local city farmers are taking food production into their own hands.

No more play: council slashes youth services by 30%

Youth workers and parents want to know why the council has cut out play, open access and work with under 11s from its new youth services.

Staff losses imminent after ‘massive’ cuts to children’s centre funding

Bristol City Council may have prevented children's centres from closing, but services for parents with young children are to be stretched even further

Services at tipping point: adult social care cuts in Bristol

Further cuts and restructures to adult social care in Bristol are on the table. Here's what's happened so far, what changes are afoot and what impact people are seeing.

Revealed: ‘The most tradable prescription drug’ at HMP Bristol

The prison is trying to crack down on prescription drug pregabalin, as inmates either remain addicted or use it as currency.