The Bristol Cable: News, Investigations & Events

Bristol History Podcast // Bristol and the Civil War

The English Civil War is often reduced to a stereotype of haughty Cavaliers and humourless Roundheads. Yet in reality it was was one of...

Tom Brothwell

Reports

Photos: thousands join Bristol’s Grand Iftar Ramadan celebration

In a powerful display of unity, three thousand people of different and no faith celebrated the breaking of the fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Norberto Fernández Soriano

Reports

VIDEO: 25 years behind the scenes at the Gas, with Nick Day

At the end of last season, the Rovers’ matchday announcer hung up his microphone after a quarter of a century. Maff Tucker chats to Nick...

Maff Tucker

Ideas and Action

Learning not to abuse your partner

The programme that puts abusers at the heart of the solution.

Hannah Vickers

Investigations

Exclusive: Former coppers, including undercover, exposed in police data blunder

While police are fighting to protect the identities of officers during the ‘spycops’ public inquiry into undercover policing, an Avon and Somerset Police Facebook group has exposed the identities of former officers, including covert police.

Alon Aviram

Interviews

Artificial intelligence, robots, and the future of society: interview with Darren Jones

We are hurtling into a ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’: an age of artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, and unparalleled automation in the workplace. Should we be worried? To find out, the Cable spoke to Darren Jones – one Bristol MP who is paying attention

Sandi Dheensa and Michael Cox

Cable Community News

Cable members continue to shape a new media for Bristol

One hundred Bristol Cable members crammed in to the co-operative’s annual general meeting, proving once again that media in the public interest must be led...

The Bristol Cable

Voices

“He said that he was nearby, and was going to come over and take my things”

This woman’s story of being on the sharp-end of the council’s debt collection policies.

Adam Cantwell-Corn

Features

Inside the UK’s first ever city centre drug testing facility- in the heart of Bristol

As charity The Loop reduced harms by testing drugs at Love Saves The Day this weekend, Bristol also became the first place in the UK to offer city centre testing.

Matty Edwards

Edition 15

I did time for tagging

Jack Keeling, who was imprisoned for graffiti, talks to the Bristol Cable about his sentence, Bristol’s graffiti scene and the council’s promise to create legal graffiti walls.

Hannah Vickers

Reports