Third mysterious fire in two years at Strachan & Henshaw, ‘The Office’, building
The fire which broke out on the ground floor is being treated as deliberate. It follows a blackmail attempt on the landlord and a separate, violent assault on the ex-landlord.
£17 million could be wiped off value of Bristol Energy
The Labour-run council is trying to sell Bristol Energy, which has soaked up £35 million of council tax payers’ money and posted official losses of £32.5 million since it was set up five years ago.
Opinion: ‘The NHS sends too many mental health patients to hospital for expensive, ineffective care’
People are being sent away to private mental health providers for specialist treatment, but this often means poorer outcomes at higher costs, says occupational therapist Keir Harding.
Losing myself: my experiences of psychiatric hospitals
My time in hospitals kept me alive when I was unable to do that myself, but it came with its own set of wounds. Now, I want to be part of changing the system.
Enslaved person’s gravestone vandalised in Bristol in racist retaliation attack for toppling of Colston statue
The historic grave of an enslaved young African person has been desecrated in an apparent racist revenge attack following the toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston.
