Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with filmmaker Aodh Breathnach on surviving being stabbed – and documenting its impact on him

With knife crime a tragically common part of life in Bristol and other cities, Neil talks to Aodh about the psychological trauma of being the victim of an attack, and the process of recovery.

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Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media, George Colwey and Priyanka Raval

Area in Focus

Reverend Palmer

St Paul’s, through the eyes of the reverend patrolling for peace

For years, the Reverend Dawnecia Palmer – a United Nations Peacemaker – has worked on Bristol's inner-city streets. After a recent spate of stabbings rocked St Paul's, she's praying for an end to the 'pandemic of the blade'.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Callouts

One year on: what’s been the impact of Bristol’s Clean Air Zone?

There's been lots of criticism of Bristol's attempt to tackle its illegal levels of air pollution. But what has your experience been?

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The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Opinion

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Analysis: The national high-rise saga behind Barton House’s emergency evacuation

Housing journalist Peter Apps, who has written for years about Grenfell, explains how even the sudden collapse of a similar high rise block in London 50 years failed to spark enough action to make other towers safe.

Peter Apps
Peter Apps

Reports

A photo of Barton House tower block

Exclusive: Council denies structural issues identified four years ago are root cause of tower block evacuation

Bristol City Council says 'new and intrusive' surveys raised questions over whether it could rely on its own records about Barton House, whose residents have been left temporarily homeless after the building was deemed unsafe.

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Billy Stockwell and Alex Turner

Reports

A photo of Barton House tower block

Barton Hill tower block residents’ lives turned upside down by emergency evacuation

Told to leave their homes under chaotic and confusing orders by Bristol City Council, tenants of Barton House face an uncertain future after their homes were deemed unsafe.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Area in Focus

A pedestrianised street corner with tables and chairs, and period shopfronts in the background.

Clifton eyesore may undergo partial ‘community buyout’

After a decade of failed attempts to redevelop the former WH Smith building on Clifton Down Road, the owner is now in talks with local residents interested in buying back part of the site.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Podcasts

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Listen: Why are people so attached to their cars? Bristol prepares for its first ‘liveable neighbourhood’

The council will soon launch a formal consultation on the controversial East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood, before the trial traffic-restriction scheme comes in early next year.

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Matty Edwards and George Colwey

Interviews

Adult man standing in front of empty wooden bookcases.

Bristol’s top family judge stepping down, to launch project to keep people out of court

Judge Stephen Wildblood lifts the lid on a crisis in public law as he explains his plans to help families get support at community level, out of court.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Features

A rectangular tower block covered with scaffolding for fire safety works.

A year on from fires, delays to safety works are leaving tower block tenants shivering

While the dangerous cladding on some of Bristol’s high-rise blocks has been removed, it’s yet to be replaced – meaning residents face a winter without insulated homes.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

Adult man in shirt standing by car occupied by driver at the wheel.

Bristol’s cabbies are being put out of work by council licensing delays and mixups

Private hire and Hackney carriage drivers have had enough of the city’s licensing department, with some waiting needlessly for months for permits to be renewed before they can get back on the road.

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Sean Morrison and Matty Edwards

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An adult male with his arms folded sitting on the bonnet of a car.

Cab driver says good character used against him in ‘cruel sting operation’

Police have questions to answer after private-hire taxi driver’s claims of a stitch-up that’s had years-long financial consequences.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison
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