Investigations

The police are struggling to deal with sexual exploitation happening online. How does this off-street sex trade operate in this city?

While police are fighting to protect the identities of officers during the ‘spycops’ public inquiry into undercover policing, an Avon and Somerset Police Facebook group has exposed the identities of former officers, including covert police.

Bristol is to become one of the first places in the country to have a stretegy for vehicle dwellers, but some fear it could simply end up displacing people. 

In the 70th year of the NHS, an investigation by the Cable reveals that those who care for the nation are in need of serious attention.

The bailiff firm most used by Bristol City Council to collect council tax debts is part-owned by a firm of financiers closely linked to - and major donors of - the Tory party, the Cable can reveal.

This investigation is part of a Bristol Cable campaign calling on the council to stop using bailiffs to collect council tax.

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

Could education and training for prisoners help solve the crisis at HMP Bristol?

A huge new development is set to begin in South Bristol. However, there won't be a single affordable home. But this time it’s not developers trying to get around council targets. 

From major hotels and office blocks, to flats and single car parking spaces, hundreds of properties in Bristol are owned through companies based overseas. Most of these companies are based in tax havens, marked by secrecy and opportunities for dodging taxes or hiding the origins of their money.

Twenty-eight properties owned by Bristol City Council are being leased to companies based in secretive tax havens, an investigation by the Cable reveals.

The Cable is co-ordinating a national campaign to prompt a parliamentary inquiry into IMSI-catchers, and to get police to come clean on their use of the technology.