Ice Cream Slavery Case

Bristol Cable members set the news agenda – BBC air Lopresti slavery investigation

BBC Points West helped us tell the story of how ice cream and property boss Salvatore Lopresti kept men in slave-like conditions.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Ice Cream Slavery Case

Finally exposed: How Lopresti ice cream boss kept men in slave-like conditions, tenants and families in squalor. But people spoke out.

In a Cable investigation spanning five years, a shocking story has been uncovered.

Adam Cantwell-Corn Alon Aviram
Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alon Aviram

Opinion

European elections: why it matters even though it doesn’t feel like it

This is no ordinary election, and it comes at a pivotal time, argues Nick Dowson.

Nick Dowson

Features

In Hartcliffe antisocial behaviour is about more than young people acting up

The common media portrayal of Hartcliffe as being closer to Baghdad than Bedminster is clearly nonsense. But the issue is raw and touches on deeper questions.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Edition 19

Meet Kerry, the Hartcliffe community activist on a mission

“We’ve got so used to things being taken away from us, that a lot of people don’t know we’ve got rights.”

Sandi Dheensa

Fight For Fair Air

Controversial gas power station refused at development committee

Conrad Energy may now appeal the decision for the hugely unpopular plans for St Philip’s Marsh gas power plant.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Edition 19

How child’s play is a serious matter

A year since the council cut play services, we visit an adventure playground in Southmead.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Interviews

George Monbiot: ‘Bristol airport expansion is like a gun pointing at the heart of the planet’

Bristol is not doing enough after declaring climate emergency, says environmental journalist.

Alex Morss

Ice Cream Slavery Case

Ice cream boss Lopresti is slavery risk and banned from business, following Cable exposé

Following Cable investigations, Judge said: “I’m sure that there is a risk that you will commit a human trafficking or slavery offence.”

Adam Cantwell-Corn Alon Aviram
Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alon Aviram

Dark Arts

Part three: A Somerset cider baron’s stolen art collection, heroin from Pakistan, two collapsed cases and a rinsed taxpayer

The tale of how stolen art belonging to a cider baron and former MP was recovered by a man acquitted of the murder of Daniel Morgan.

Michael Gillard

Dark Arts

Part two: The troubled cop bent on solving the UK’s longest running murder case, and a key player in the phone hacking scandal

An art heist in Somerset, the UK’s longest running murder case, and the phone hacking scandal - three sensational stories weave into one.

Michael Gillard

Investigations

criminals run away from confused police

Dark Arts: a true crime series

Dark Arts is a tale of private investigators, corruption, political pressure, Pakistani heroin and a mansion in the Somerset hills revealed over three parts in a new Cable true crime series.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable
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