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Reports

Council failed to consider removing slaver’s statue despite ‘great concerns’, trial of Colston 4 hears

Trial day 2: The monument brought Bristol ‘face to face with painful, shameful aspects’ of its past, the court heard.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

Colston statue was ‘abhorrent offence’ to city, toppling trial hears

Trial day 1: Prosecutors told the court that the fact Colston was a slaver was ‘wholly irrelevant’ to the case.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Callouts

How do you feel about the not guilty verdict of the Colston 4?

We want to know what you think about the verdict in the landmark trial and what needs to happen next in the wider debate about statues and how we remember our past.

Have your say
The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Video

Colston's empty plinth

Watch: One year since Colston fell

Priyanka Raval speaks to anti-racism campaigners on the year since the Edward Colston statue was toppled, and questions whether the controversy surrounding it helped the movement – or simply unveiled divisions within the city.

Priyanka Raval Aphra Evans
Priyanka Raval and Aphra Evans

Reports

‘Colston 4’ to stand trial at Bristol Crown Court on 13 December

The protestors have pleaded not guilty and their lawyers say they will ‘fight these criminal charges vigorously’.

Fatima Hudoon
Fatima Hudoon

Reports

‘Not guilty’ plead the Colston 4

The case will be heard in Bristol Crown Court on 8 February.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Coronavirus in Bristol

The Bristol Briefing: Cases down, hospital admissions and vaccines up, plus the Colston 4 trial

What you need to know on Covid and what else is happening in the city - including the upcoming trial of the ‘Colston 4’

Lucas Batt Adam Cantwell-Corn Matty Edwards
Lucas Batt, Adam Cantwell-Corn and Matty Edwards

Reports

Enslaved person’s gravestone vandalised in Bristol in racist retaliation attack for toppling of Colston statue

The historic grave of an enslaved young African person has been desecrated in an apparent racist revenge attack following the toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston.

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

City

PHOTOESSAY: The protest that toppled Colston

The Black Lives Matter protest on Sunday hit headlines the world over after protestors pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston and rolled him down to the docks and into the river.

Olumide Osinoiki

Cable Community News

Editorial: After Colston, now to tear down structures of racism, including in the media

A statement from the Cable on the felling of Colston, Black Lives Matter and working towards anti-racism.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Reports

Colston statue toppled during Bristol’s Black Lives Matter protest

The statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol city centre - often the centre of debates about marking Bristol's dark history - was today torn down.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Reports

This image features the logo and title for Bristol Unpacked, a podcast presented by The Bristol Cable. It includes stylized illustrations of host Neil Maggs and this week's guest, photographer Colin Moody in yellow circles against a grey abstract background.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with photographer Colin Moody on documenting the city, and the threats to its nightlife

In the first of a new season of Unpacked, Neil talks to Colin about his new book collaboration with Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley, celebrating Bristol's nightlife – and the challenges venues face in the post-Covid era.

Alex Turner Neil Maggs George Colwey
Alex Turner, Neil Maggs and George Colwey