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Bristol Beacon refurb cost spirals by another £25 million

The latest blow to Bristol City Council's finances comes as the authority prepares to cut services from April 2023.

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

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Image of Save Redfield Cinema campaigners and UWE students presenting plans at a public meeting (credit: Alex Turner)

Campaigners seek new community asset listing for pub with hidden cinema in bid to stop flats plan

Save Redfield Cinema group members say they’re throwing the 'kitchen sink' at blocking redevelopment plans for St George's Hall, as they urge locals to object and present alternative proposals.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

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‘We had to fight so hard to get here’, says aunt of boy struck with paddle as attacker convicted 

Police have apologised to 12-year-old Antwon Forrest and his family, who say the force’s initial poor response was because of the boy's race.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

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‘Waking watch’ fire patrols stood down at two Bristol tower blocks as flammable cladding removed

Work to remove dangerous EPS cladding has been completed at Eccleston House, scene of a serious fire in autumn 2022, and another Barton Hill tower.

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

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The glass ceiling and interior columns if Bristol Central Library

Controversial plans to relocate Bristol’s Central Library scrapped after public outcry

The cost-saving proposal to relocate the library from College Green was met with strong opposition.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

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Image of Filwood's Northern Slopes, one of Bristol's prized green spaces (image: Charlie Watts)

Thousands of Bristolians petition the council to stop building on city’s green spaces

Thousands of Bristol residents have signed a petition calling on the council to stop granting permission for new buildings on the city’s green spaces. Councillors...

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

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The deacon who evicted her tenants before Christmas to make way for a community house

Love Bristol, a charity that will be taking over the property to run a ‘community house’, says it had ‘sympathy’ for the tenants, but insists its ‘charitable mandate is to focus on vulnerable people’.

Alex King
Alex King

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‘The way the NHS is managed is breaking workers’. Bristol nurses take historic strike action

Meet two critical care nurses from the picket line at the BRI in historic NHS strike action.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

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Bristol councillors back bringing buses into public control amid cuts to services

Political pressures is growing on Dan Norris, the West of England metro mayor, to explore how a bus franchising model could solve the wider Bristol region’s bus crisis.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

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Emergency insulation kits and advice to help Bristol households through the winter months

As people on low incomes struggle with the energy crisis, Bristol Energy Network will support hundreds of households with insulation materials and training. But with thousands struggling, much broader action is needed.

Adam Corner
Adam Corner

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A map of heat networks that will be created under Bristol's City Leap programme

Councillors sign off 20-year deal aimed at decarbonising Bristol’s energy networks

Councillors this week approved the two-decade City Leap partnership, paving the way for hundreds of millions of pounds to be invested into heat networks, retrofit and other renewable technologies in Bristol.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

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‘We see it as a warning’: Barton Hill’s Muslim community on impact of pig’s head hate crime

A pig’s head was dumped near a mosque in Barton Hill last month in a incident that's triggered residents' memories of previous anti-Muslim hate crimes in the area.

Alex King
Alex King
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