Reports

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This Better Work

Righting a historic injustice: why special needs teachers at one Bristol school walked out

Engaging children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is a rewarding but challenging job. When teachers at a Bristol school found they had been underpaid for years, slow progress in negotiations led to a strike.

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Reports

A man in a black hoodie and hat, seen in head-and-shoulders view, stands against a set of ornate railings

‘Being a man kills your feelings’: Moses McKenzie on masculinity, liberation and community

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

This Better Work

A cardboard placard showing a swastika being thrown in a bin is raised above a city street full of people protesting

‘We need to face them on the streets’: how trade unions are responding to the far-right threat

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie
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Reports

Council still hounding people with bailiffs after ‘ethical’ approach promise

The Cable has uncovered evidence Bristol City Council is referring thousands of council tax debts to enforcement agencies despite a stated policy to do so only as a last resort.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards
computer generated scene of the centre of Bristol with a new bike lane. Variuos people are using lots of forms of transport or walking.

Reports

New radical plans tabled to remove cars from Bristol city centre

Steve Melia
Steve Melia
A large crowd gather in the road on a city street.

Reports

Huge counter demo in Bristol sends clear message that far right not welcome – as it happened

Sean Morrison Priyanka Raval Matty Edwards
Sean Morrison, Priyanka Raval and Matty Edwards

No to Section 60

No To Section 60: Letter to local MPs demanding suspicionless search legislation is scrapped

Here's a draft letter to be sent to your local MP demanding that they push for the repeal of Section 60 police stop and search powers

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Reports

A fountain in front of City Hall in Bristol, a curved building

Council forced to place vulnerable children into illegal homes because system is ‘broken’, says leader

Cllr Tony Dyer say the root cause was a lack of accommodation for vulnerable youngsters and that this needed to be fixed.

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

Exterior of Bristol Beacon, a building with a large glass front.

Early failures by council in Bristol Beacon revamp cost millions, report finds

The cost of refurbishing the iconic Bristol music venue almost tripled from £48million to £132million.

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

This Better Work

‘Collective power is where it’s at’: City Academy workers celebrate strike action successes

Union members at the east Bristol secondary school have achieved most of a series of asks from the academy trust that manages it, after announcing rolling walkouts. Workers say the action has brought staff together.

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Reports

Watchdog finds ‘serious failings’ after concluding council does not know what state its housing is in

Bristol City Council has been called out by a government regulator for not meeting new quality standards, with thousands of repairs and damp and mould cases long overdue for action and many safety check records missing.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Reports

‘The only language the university speaks is money’: pro-Palestine students now facing eviction

A possession order brought by Bristol University to evict the protest camp has been rejected - but only until further hearings on 19 July.

Daniel Tester
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