Edition 7: Spring 2016
Edition 7
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What future for a gentrified Bristol?
Faced with rising inequality, gentrification and a world gone mad, where will Bristol go?
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Bristol And Beyond Investigations
Jobs for guns: Bristol MP’s ties to defense contractors
Local MP Jack Lopresti has a friendly relationship with defence contractors. But are local interests being subordinated to those of multinational arms companies?
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Ideas And Action Features City
Behind the bike: Bristol’s bicycle couriers talk their trade
Cycle couriering has been changing in Bristol of late - what's life like for the people who pedal?
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At last, there’s hope for Bristol buses
After decades of damaging public transport deregulation, there's a chink of light on the horizon for cities like Bristol.
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A complicated victory: Bristol, European City of Sport 2017
Bristol has won European City of Sport 2017. What does it mean for the city?
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Mustaqbalka Xawaaladaha
Stapleton Road, Easton. Wuxuu u eegyahay dukaan yar oo xaafadda ku dhexyaala oo iibiya cunto fudud, cabitaan, sigaar iyo waxyaabaha caadiga ah.
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Bristol And Beyond Features Ideas And Action
A lifeline: Stapleton Road to Somalia
Stapleton Road, Easton: another corner shop selling snacks, drinks and fags. But this one, like hundreds across the UK, doubles up as an international banking terminal.
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Bristol’s housing puzzle: self-help and mutual aid
Housing will present an unpleasant puzzle for Bristol's next mayor, whoever they may be. Tessa Coombes offers solutions.
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Bristol’s housing puzzle: tame a perfect storm
Housing will present an unpleasant puzzle for Bristol's next mayor, whoever they may be. Nick Ballard weighs in.
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Bristol’s housing puzzle: Redefining “Affordable”
Housing will present an unpleasant puzzle for Bristol's next mayor, whoever they may be. Jules Birch gives us his take.
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Bristol’s housing: challenges, ideas and priorities
Housing will present an unpleasant puzzle for Bristol’s next mayor, whoever they may be. We asked three experts for their slant on tackling it.
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Bristol And Beyond City Features Ideas And Action
Bristol’s appalling state of elderly care
Bristol's old age care sector is in chaos and needs a sustainable, long term strategy to deal with the city's growing number of elderly residents.
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The so-called exclusives of Bristol media…
The best of the city’s (other) local media bravely fighting the good fight…
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MC Idren-Natural’s life in a sound system culture
An evolving UK movement through the eyes of a musical warrior.
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The real cost of Uber’s cheap rides
As smartphone taxi company Uber takes off in Bristol, we ask if low prices are part of a bigger picture that may threaten Bristol's economy.
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Bristol Cable women’s roundtable: “This is not a democracy”
Four young women on their thoughts and feelings on democracy in the everyday.
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Too many old white men: the problem with Bristol Council
Bristol's ethnic minority communities are larger than ever - but diversity in local government is still lacking.
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The Faces of Old Market
As the face of Old Market is set to change, we take a look at some of the faces.
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The best of Bristol news
In which we lighten up and take a little time out from reporting on the bad and serious stuff going on in our fair city...
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Interactive: The real reason thousands of Bristolians don’t vote?
Thousands of Bristolians aren't voting. Why?
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How to make your Bristol mayoral vote count
It's time for your occasional dose of electoral democracy. If you take it up, make sure you do it right!
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Mayors: Strong leadership or unchecked power
Has having a directly elected mayor made a difference to Bristol's governance?
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DIY Press: From conspiracy to community coverage
From yellowing pages of the 1960s to today, radical media reveals Bristol's history of alternative democratic engagement.
