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Green homes investment can benefit everyone in a post-Covid world

Adapting the UK’s housing stock is crucial to tackling climate change, and the task can create jobs in an economy harmed by coronavirus. By using and sharing our city’s expertise, Bristol can show the way forward.

Wolfgang Küchler

City

Reflections on the All Lives Matter protest

From “All Lives Matter” to “just doing my patriotic duty,” Cable reporter Priyanka Raval reflects on the “protect the cenotaph” demonstration on Saturday.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services

Revealed: Failures in care for man who took his life at private mental health unit

Dominic Vickars was just 25 when he died while at Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke in Weston-super-Mare, a private hospital part-funded by the NHS. Using evidence from the inquest and accounts from his family, we tell the story of how he was let down.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services

Separated: The damaging rise in people sent to private mental health hospitals away from family

Local NHS bosses have vowed to end mental health out-of-area placements by March next year, but 2019 saw a increase in people being sent away to private beds locally and far away.

Fatima Hudoon
Fatima Hudoon

Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services

Inside: Private mental health services in Bristol investigated

Frontline workers and families speak out as the Cable investigates why private sector involvement is growing and what impact it’s having on people in Bristol.

Matty Edwards Fatima Hudoon
Matty Edwards and Fatima Hudoon

Cable Community News

Launching an events calendar to amplify Bristol’s communities

We’re launching a calendar to help Bristolians find out what's on with community and social events.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Video

Watch: Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol

Cable journalist Priyanka Raval spoke to people at Sunday's BlackLivesMatter protest about what the toppling of the Edward Colston's statue means, and where Bristol goes from here.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval and Olumide Osinoiki

Video

Watch: The Kneel at the Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol 2020

"We are killed for racially charged suspicions. Demonised even when found innocent. And fight for our mere existence."

Olumide Osinoiki

City

PHOTOESSAY: The protest that toppled Colston

The Black Lives Matter protest on Sunday hit headlines the world over after protestors pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston and rolled him down to the docks and into the river.

Olumide Osinoiki

Bristol History Podcast

Bristol History Podcast: ‘Know Your Place’ and Planning in Bristol

This week I spoke with Pete Insole, Historic Environment Officer for Bristol City Council, to discuss the historical mapping tool ‘Know Your Place’. We also...

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell

Cable Community News

Editorial: After Colston, now to tear down structures of racism, including in the media

A statement from the Cable on the felling of Colston, Black Lives Matter and working towards anti-racism.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Reports

Colston statue toppled during Bristol’s Black Lives Matter protest

The statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol city centre - often the centre of debates about marking Bristol's dark history - was today torn down.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval
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