The Bristol Briefing: Initial Covid-19 surge testing results ‘very reassuring’
Bristol's infection rate and hospital admissions have continued to fall on the eve of the government announcement on our route out of lockdown next week.
Amazon agency warehouse workers allege being underpaid and shifts cancelled last minute
Two major employment agencies contracted by Amazon for warehouse work accused of underpayments and zero hour contracts, breaching Amazon's own company policies.
Bristol parents say employers are wrongly classing them as keyworkers to get their kids into school
Physical attendance in schools is higher this lockdown, and parents say it's partly because they're being pressured by employers to send their children in.
Much-needed secondary school won’t open until 2024 at earliest, parents told
Oasis Temple Quarter School was supposed to open in 2018, but further planning delays mean more children in east Bristol will have to be squeezed into existing schools for years to come.
Mutated Covid variant found in Bristol no more infectious or dangerous, health experts say
11 cases of the mutated form of the Kent variant have been found in Bristol but it's thought to be no more infectious or dangerous than its parent, according to health experts
Transparency changes promised at the council to prevent another Bristol Energy fiasco
Top Bristol councillors will get confidential briefings on commercially sensitive information in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the Bristol Energy fiasco. Three members...
Fear of ‘cover-ups’, bad decisions and squandering taxpayers’ money
A cross-party group of councillors fear “cover-ups”, bad decisions and taxpayers’ money being squandered by Bristol City Council. Now they call for better access rights to information.
