Features

Features

Beyond Brexit: In Bristol’s housing crisis everyone’s a loser apart from the landlords

Everyone’s a loser in Bristol’s housing crisis, except for landlords and people looking to sell their homes. Tenants in the privately rented sector are struggling...

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

General Election 2019

Beyond Brexit: Schools funding on the ballot paper

The city’s most marginal seat Bristol North West has been hit hardest by cuts to school funding, but how will that play out as parents go to the polls?

Matty Edwards Fatima Hudoon
Matty Edwards and Fatima Hudoon

Features

‘Most families find it shameful’ – Finding pride in a community where being gay is taboo

It took over a decade for James to tell his family he was gay. Some Irish Travellers never get the chance to.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers and James Lawrence

Features

Good money after bad? Bristol Energy’s spiralling losses

Market conditions have been killing off small private energy suppliers up and down the country. Bristol Energy is by no means immune and keeps on tapping council tax payers for more money in the wake of huge losses – so is it time the council-owned firm was wound up?

Old Sparky

City

‘I have never experienced such intense stress’: Social workers on the strain of cuts

Soaring workloads and the impact of austerity can make a tough job unbearable, say children’s social workers

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Addicted Bristol: Life and Death

Study drugs: how some are dealing with pressure at university

It appears study drugs aren't uncommon at Bristol University, so what does this say about the stresses of life on campus?

Matty Edwards
Joe Skirkowski and Matty Edwards

Edition 19

Communities standing up: college students, skaters and migrant mums

News is so often depresseing and disempowering. But these Bristolians are making a difference across the city.

Matty Edwards Jess Connett
Matty Edwards and Jess Connett

Features

Star and Garter reopens, as communities fight back against threats to Bristol nightlife

As shown by the Star and Garter and new venues, Bristol's nightlife is threatened but being forced into revival and rebirth.

Georgia Edwards

Features

Exclusive: Two Bristol activists helping build a new society in Syria

Amidst the rubble of war-torn Northern Syria, two Bristolians follow the footsteps of friend Anna Campbell, murdered by Turkish forces, to carry on the mission of building a new society.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Features

In Hartcliffe antisocial behaviour is about more than young people acting up

The common media portrayal of Hartcliffe as being closer to Baghdad than Bedminster is clearly nonsense. But the issue is raw and touches on deeper questions.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Edition 19

How child’s play is a serious matter

A year since the council cut play services, we visit an adventure playground in Southmead.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Features

Bristol doctors on air pollution: ‘The council isn’t taking things seriously enough’

Medical professionals have a role to play as advocates for public health, but “system change” is necessary, says MedAct Bristol.

Alex Diggins
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