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Budget cut proposals face criticism ahead of crucial council vote

Opposition councillors have responded to the Labour administration's plans to fill a £19m hole in the city’s finances. After last year’s election results, the mayor needs cross party support to get his budget approved. 

Tin Hinson

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Rehab centre closure decision delayed amid backlash over plans

South Bristol Rehab Centre could be shut down as part of the council's plans to cut £19.5m from its budget.

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

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Children ‘missing out’ on free school meals

Children could be missing out on free school meals because of schools not checking often enough for eligibility, according to Cabot Primary School's business manager.

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

Council commits to crackdown on benefit discrimination against renters

Following a renter-led campaign by Shelter, councillors from across parties voted to support the Labour motion pledging to tackle landlords excluding renters who claim benefits.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

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Council to cut management jobs and hike parking fees but protect frontline services in bid to fill £20m budget gap

In response to declining funding from central government and the impact of Covid, cost saving measures also include selling off council buildings, raising council tax and ending free short stays in residential parking zones.

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

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Colston toppler: ‘We’ve pushed things in the right direction’

Rhian Graham speaks to the Cable about how pulling down the slave trader’s statue was a ‘victory for Bristol’.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

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Colston 4 found not guilty of criminal damage to slave trader’s statue

The public gallery erupted with cheers and applause as the defendants were cleared following a landmark trial

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

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Colston statue dumped in harbour so council wouldn’t put it back up, defendant tells court

The case has been adjourned until 4 January, when the jury will hear closing speeches from the prosecution and defence, as well as the judge’s summing up of evidence.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

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Descendant of enslaved person says Colston’s statue remaining in place was ‘profoundly shameful’

The act ‘centred’ a global conversation about Britain’s role in the slave trade, she told the trial of the Colston 4.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

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Council call off bailiffs after discovering an eviction blocked by community response was for a debt owed to them

Bailiffs were trying to evict the woman and her two children a week before Christmas.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

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Colston ‘heavily involved’ in Britain’s most prolific slave trading company, David Olusoga tells statue-toppling trial

The historian gave expert evidence as a witness for the defence in the trial of the so-called Colston 4.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

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Pulling down ‘monument to racism’ was right thing to do, Colston toppling trial hears

Trial day 3: The presence of the slave trader’s statue was like a hate crime, a defendant told the jury

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison
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