Opinion

Why Bristol sport needs to do its bit in tackling the climate crisis

Sport fans in Bristol should care about our changing climate, writes David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt

Reports

Locals call for answers on fuel leak at St Pauls development site

Photos: Save the M32 Maples Developers have started to build 31 homes on the site of a former filling station in central Bristol from which...

James Garrett and Howard Ogden

Features

5 ways robots are changing our healthcare

With a leading robotics research hub in the city, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, partnering with local hospitals, Bristol is at the cutting-edge of robotics in healthcare.

Fatima Hudoon
Fatima Hudoon

Coronavirus in Bristol

Bristol ‘highly likely’ to see Tier 2 Covid restrictions soon, with local NHS now under ‘extreme pressure’

Meanwhile both of Bristol’s hospital trusts have declared internal critical incidents amid rising demand and more Covid patients.

Matty Edwards Lucas Batt
Matty Edwards and Lucas Batt

Black History Month

Black and ethnic minority people more likely to face cannabis prosecution in Bristol, data shows

‘No excuse’ for ethnic disparities say police, as overall prosecutions for Class B drug rise despite local diversion programme

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Black History Month

Watch: “I SEE” a poem to inspire and outrage, by Solomon O.B

“This is a movement, not a moment” : Watch Solomon OB’s performance of his poem “I SEE” written in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer

Priyanka Raval
Solomon OB, Priyanka Raval and Manoel Bolutife Akure

Black History Month

Watch: Vulnerability, escapism and creativity, my experiences of lockdown as a young Bristolian

Lockdown left young people in the city feeling stranded, dislocated from their usual connections. Here, a young aspiring writer reflects on school, writing and the new sense of self-confidence that grew over those months

Shaheim Minzie Priyanka Raval
Shaheim Minzie, Olumide Osinoiki, Manoel Bolutife Akure and Priyanka Raval

Coronavirus in Bristol

New Covid measures for Bristol, as city announces Tier 1+ in response to rising infections

The council is taking action after infection rates continued to rise sharply, including among working age adults, not just university students.

Matty Edwards
Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter) and Matty Edwards

People's History

The problematic past of the Merchant Venturers

Mark Steeds from the Bristol Radical History Group, co-author of From Wulfstan to Colston, tells the story of the origins, history and development of the Society of Merchant Venturers

Priyanka Raval
Mark Steeds and Priyanka Raval

Black History Month

Watch: “Britons never, never have been slaves?”

A backtracked BBC decision earlier this year to not sing the words to Rule Britannia at the Proms kicked off the most recent debate about the song and Britain’s past and present.

Priyanka Raval
Edson Burton, Priyanka Raval and Paula Romero

Struggle for trans health equality

‘She was just left to it’: bereaved mother slams mental health care before death of her trans daughter

Family of Alexandra Greenway, who died in 2019, say she was let down by unfit and under-pressure NHS services, and by a ‘trans-blind’ approach that leaves people’s needs unmet.

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Struggle for trans health equality

Writing on the wall: why trans and nonbinary people in Bristol are speaking out

This series will look at issues affecting local trans communities, driven by people’s lived experiences.

Sage Brice
Sage Brice
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