Reports

Local Tory MP takes donation from private jet mogul

The donation comes as the aviation industry is likely to come under scrutiny during the general election for its impact on the climate crisis.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Reports

Bristol Council votes to ban diesel cars from city centre

All privately owned diesel vehicles will be banned from the city centre between 7am and 3pm from March 2021.

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

Features

‘Most families find it shameful’ – Finding pride in a community where being gay is taboo

It took over a decade for James to tell his family he was gay. Some Irish Travellers never get the chance to.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers and James Lawrence

Reports

The race is on for Tory held marginal Filton and Bradley Stoke

Labour is on the offensive and mobilising hundreds despite trailing in polls.

Joe Smith

Features

Good money after bad? Bristol Energy’s spiralling losses

Market conditions have been killing off small private energy suppliers up and down the country. Bristol Energy is by no means immune and keeps on tapping council tax payers for more money in the wake of huge losses – so is it time the council-owned firm was wound up?

Old Sparky

Dark Arts

Avon and Somerset police to be sued over botched art heist investigation

The main suspect in Britain’s longest running murder investigation is seeking damages following his acquittal over the stolen art collection of cider baron and former Tory MP Esmond Bulmer.

Michael Gillard

Reports

Bristol’s new van policy. What is it, and how will it affect you?

Injunctions, ‘high’ and ‘low’ impact, and surveillance. We explain what you can expect from the council's new van policy.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Fight For Fair Air

After delays, council releases plan to clean up toxic air

A thousand plus pages of documents have received mixed reactions and raised uncertainties as to whether it will be implementable

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Investigations

The unsolved fire at The Office and the chequered history of a rogue landlord

Five months after the devastating fire at Speedwell’s Strachan and Henshaw building, ‘The Office’ tower is being turned into flats. The Cable investigates former owner Alan Dykes and his run-ins with the law.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Reports

A morning with activists taking direct action against immigration enforcement

The group said the action was in response to the "institutional racism of the government's hostile environment policy".

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Bristol and Beyond

From St Pauls to Syria: Why this young woman and Kurds in Bristol are struggling for justice from afar

We spent the morning with a Kurdish activist struggling for peace and justice in north eastern Syria

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Opinion

Masculinity and my Black male experience

The biggest problem with a stereotype isn’t that it’s false but that it’s the only story being told.

Daniel Edmund
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