Edition 19

Changing gear: what next for cycling in Bristol?

To get us out of cars and reduce air pollution, Bristol needs to radically overhaul its cycle network. Other cities are leading the way.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Fight For Fair Air

Seeing through the fog: Air pollution facts

Key facts and figures on what’s in our air, where it comes from, and why we should worry.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

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Episode 4: Tattoo parlours, nightclubs and firebombs – how businesses were blackmailed

In the last episode of the Cornerman, the Cable lifts the lid on protection rackets from London to Bristol, revealing how local businesses were forced to pay gangsters for security.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram and Michael Gillard

Moving on: Bristol's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities

Government ‘comprehensively failed’ Gypsies and Travellers, report finds

They have the worst outcomes out of all the ethnicities in the UK.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Fight For Fair Air

Opinion: Bristol’s leadership is failing to stop the city choking

Marvin Rees’ announcement this week that there is a ‘timeline’ for producing a Clean Air Plan is too little, too late.

Seth Piper

Addicted Bristol: Life and Death

Revealed: Council shelves study into safe consumption rooms after restructure

The Labour Party has backed the policy at national level, but progress appears to have stalled in Bristol.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Features

From homes for heroes to a housing crisis: a potted history of Bristol’s council housing

This year marks a century since the start of serious council housebuilding in our city. After years of neglect, a resurgence in social homes is long overdue

Eugene Byrne
Eugene Byrne

Reports

Council admits Clean Air Plan won’t come into effect until 2020 earliest

As cities across the UK begin to tackle their toxic air, Bristol confirms extended delay to Clean Air Plan.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Opinion

Opinion: Our parks are under threat. They need legal protection.

Neill Talbot argues green areas are vital for people and wildlife in our city, and the council should be made to protect them.

Neill Talbot

housing Bristol

To end homelessness, we need to change how we talk about it

We’re not seeing the big picture, says Joe Smith, who works in the sector and is increasingly frustrated at how the issues are framed.

Joe Smith

Bristol History Podcast

Bristol History Podcast: Bristol’s Overseas Trade

Bristol was born as a trading hub. We look at the history of the city's overseas trade, from its foundation to present day.

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell

Reports

Revealed: Complex-needs homeless services lose out

Homeless services are having to relocate from the Compass Centre in Stokes Croft.

Jay Crane
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