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Photography

‘A safe space to be shit at sport’

DUMP FC is a mixed-ability, mixed-gender football group that defines itself as a ‘friendly and safe space to be shit at football’. 

Alexander Turner
Alexander Turner

This Better Work

‘Precarity is the thing that joins all this work together’: Bristol’s sex workers demand labour rights

Natalie Sherriff
Natalie Sherriff

People's History

‘An intolerable anachronism’: it’s 60 years since the last hanging took place in Bristol

Eugene Byrne
Eugene Byrne

Opinion

Scotland will open the UK’s first safer drug consumption facility – Bristol should be next

Glasgow, where the UK’s drug death crisis is worst, has overcome opposition from Westminster to open a potentially life-saving overdose prevention centre. What does this mean for other cities wanting to tackle drug-related harms?

Martin Powell
Martin Powell
Person wearing a shirt with Roman numerals and flowers.

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Comedian Jody Kamali on his homecoming show about identity, family dynamics and growing up in Southmead

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Investigations

Transparency matters: why is Bristol City Council failing on freedom of information?

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Voices

‘I didn’t come to the UK for some dream – leaving my country became the only option left’

A Turkish journalist who had to flee her country to escape the repressive government shares what her life in the UK is like as she waits for her asylum claim to be processed.

Shakuntala Sumanasekera

Area in Focus

Reverend Palmer

St Paul’s, through the eyes of the reverend patrolling for peace

For years, the Reverend Dawnecia Palmer – a United Nations Peacemaker – has worked on Bristol's inner-city streets. After a recent spate of stabbings rocked St Paul's, she's praying for an end to the 'pandemic of the blade'.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Area in Focus

A pedestrianised street corner with tables and chairs, and period shopfronts in the background.

Clifton eyesore may undergo partial ‘community buyout’

After a decade of failed attempts to redevelop the former WH Smith building on Clifton Down Road, the owner is now in talks with local residents interested in buying back part of the site.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Interviews

Adult man standing in front of empty wooden bookcases.

Bristol’s top family judge stepping down, to launch project to keep people out of court

Judge Stephen Wildblood lifts the lid on a crisis in public law as he explains his plans to help families get support at community level, out of court.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Features

A rectangular tower block covered with scaffolding for fire safety works.

A year on from fires, delays to safety works are leaving tower block tenants shivering

While the dangerous cladding on some of Bristol’s high-rise blocks has been removed, it’s yet to be replaced – meaning residents face a winter without insulated homes.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

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An adult male with his arms folded sitting on the bonnet of a car.

Cab driver says good character used against him in ‘cruel sting operation’

Police have questions to answer after private-hire taxi driver’s claims of a stitch-up that’s had years-long financial consequences.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison
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