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Features

Mental health: weighing up the options

As social factors play a role in mental illhealth, why is it so often treated with medication alone?

Hannah Vickers

Cable Community News

We’re hiring: Community media co-ordinator (Part time)

Support and train members of the Cable and the wider community to contribute to high quality journalism in a collaborative and accessible manner.

The Bristol Cable

Photography

PHOTOESSAY: Different sides of Southmead

A few photos show the vibrancy of the often-maligned neighbourhood of Southmead.

Colin Moody

Ideas and Action

Baling out the housing crisis

Could straw and timber houses on street corners be the future of urban development?

Hannah Vickers

Ideas and Action

Being black at Bristol’s universities

Bristol is the New Black is a group of students creating media that tells their own stories as young people of colour in Bristol.

Yasmin Warsame and Ayo Anibaba

City

Bristol’s vibrant urban farming scene

Urban goats, mushrooms and Bristolian salad: how local city farmers are taking food production into their own hands.

Laurie King

Reports

No more play: council slashes youth services by 30%

Youth workers and parents want to know why the council has cut out play, open access and work with under 11s from its new youth services.

Hannah Vickers

Voices

Bristol University lecturer: ‘Why I’m going on strike’

As Bristol University staff go on strike over a pensions dispute, English lecturer John McTague writes why action is needed

John McTague

Bristol and Beyond

Plans to evict 2,000 people from Bath housing estate to go to High Court

Local people are fighting mass evictions and the demolition of 542-home Foxhill housing estate, where most affordable and social housing won't be replaced.

Tim Young

Reports

Staff losses imminent after ‘massive’ cuts to children’s centre funding

Bristol City Council may have prevented children's centres from closing, but services for parents with young children are to be stretched even further

Matty Edwards

Features

Services at tipping point: adult social care cuts in Bristol

Further cuts and restructures to adult social care in Bristol are on the table. Here's what's happened so far, what changes are afoot and what impact people are seeing.