City

Meet the volunteers easing pressure on the NHS

With NHS staff overworked and overstretched, hundreds of volunteers are helping reduce the load.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Investigations

Revealed: NHS staff in Bristol are being worked until they’re sick with stress

In the 70th year of the NHS, an investigation by the Cable reveals that those who care for the nation are in need of serious attention.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn and Richard Muir

Bristol and Beyond

Stillbirth: a grief like no other

A Bristol charity helps families through the death of a baby. But what can we do to reduce the number of such losses?

Arvind Howarth
Arvind Howarth

Boot Out Bailiffs

Ministry of Justice announces crackdown on ‘rogue bailiffs’

Government report puts council tax bailiffs in the spotlight as Cable campaign gathers pace.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

City

Council awards new youth services contracts two months late

After months of delays, Bristol's reduced youth services will finally launch in June.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Boot Out Bailiffs

Revealed: Tory financiers are cashing in on the bailiffs used by the council

The bailiff firm most used by Bristol City Council to collect council tax debts is part-owned by a firm of financiers closely linked to - and major donors of - the Tory party, the Cable can reveal.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Bristol and Beyond

National report slams police ‘digital stop and search’ following Cable investigation

Following a Bristol Cable investigation in 2017, charity Privacy International have today published a new report on the technology UK police forces are secretly using to download all the content and data from people’s phones.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Cable Community News

We’re hiring: Digital Technical Lead (Part time)

Lead the digital development of the Bristol Cable’s website and digital systems, so we can better engage audiences and members with our content and organisation....

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Opinion

Opinion: Surveillance Britain, nothing to fear? Think again

We need to act fast to defend our civil liberties or, like the frog in the pot, we could too late find ourselves in a very different climate.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Ideas and Action

‘Low impact’ advertising in parks to be considered despite public opposition

Advertising is likely to be allowed in parks, with the possibility of billboards appearing in the future.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Boot Out Bailiffs

We’re launching a campaign to stop the council setting bailiffs on Bristolians. Here’s why.

Using muscle to collect debts is as old as money itself. But the Mayor and Bristol City Council must use fairer and more effective ways. It's time to #bootoutbailiffs.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Boot Out Bailiffs

The council have set bailiffs on tens of thousands of Bristolians. But there is another way.

This investigation is part of a Bristol Cable campaign calling on the council to stop using bailiffs to collect council tax.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn
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