Features

Image of Jess Durdy, who took her own life in 2020 while in a mental health 'crisis house'

Lost opportunities: are inquests failing to prevent future deaths?

Jess Durdy’s death followed clear failings by those charged with caring for her, her mother believes, but a coroner didn’t see it that way. Bereaved families, campaigners and lawyers say an opaque, inconsistent system needs change.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Features

Image of performers on stage with Hartcliffe's Brave Bold Drama organisation (credit: Clare Stott)

Inside the Hartcliffe theatre and creative arts organisation giving a lifeline to south Bristol families

Brave Bold Drama breaks down the financial and geographical barriers south Bristolians face in accessing theatre and the creative arts. But its stability is under threat as one of its founders faces eviction.

Emma Blackmore
Emma Blackmore

Features

The menopause leaves some women struggling to work. But what can be done about it?

From depression to anxiety and chronic pain, it can be debilitating to go through the menopause. The Cable spoke to women about their experience and support at work.

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

End to no-fault evictions in sight as reforms to the private rented sector finally arrive 

Housing campaigners have welcomed the long-anticipated Renters Reform Bill entering Parliament and committed to closing any loopholes for landlords to exploit.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Future of Cities

Illustration of solar panels feeding energy into community microgrids (credit: @laurence_ware_design)

People power: how can community electricity grids help tackle the energy crisis?

A small-scale ‘microgrid’ scheme in Lawrence Weston is helping a group of Bristol homeowners take power into their own hands – but how can we supercharge community energy projects to benefit everyone?

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

Funding reinstated for SEND charity at heart of council social media spying row

A charity representing parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities, which lost government funding after Bristol City Council withdrew its backing, has had the money restored in a major U-turn.

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Features

75 years since the Israeli occupation, three Palestinian women speak out about their struggle

Back in March, the Cable met three women from Palestine who visited Bristol to talk about life in the occupied West Bank. Two months later, we catch up on the 75th anniversary of the Nakba.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Cable Community News

We’re hiring: Community and Events Organiser

** Applications are now closed ** About the role The Community and Events Organiser is the driving force behind the Cable’s presence in Bristol. You’ll...

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

This Week in Bristol

Avon & Somerset Police Chief Sarah Crew

This week in Bristol: Rape charges double – to 8%

Avon and Somerset Police Chief Constable Sarah Crew said the force brought 141 rape charges in the 12 months to April this year, compared to the 69 in the same period the year before - an increase from 4 to 8%.

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Voices

Illustration for knife crime debate article showing contributors, knives and CCTV cameras (credit: @laurence_ware_design)

Is CCTV the answer to Bristol’s knife crime epidemic?

This spring Bristol City Council passed a motion on knife crime, brought by a councillor who lost a friend in an attack in Castle Park. A commitment to increase CCTV grabbed headlines, but will this help? And what else can Bristol do to address the epidemic of violence?

Neil Maggs
Neil Maggs

Bristol History Podcast

Image of Arthur Rackham's 'Fairy Procession', originally for a 1908 edition of Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights Dream

Listen: Sabrina, goddess of the River Severn

Nicola Haasz discusses the origin myths of Sabrina, goddess of the River Severn, and the cultural responses the river has elicited through history.

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell

Features

‘The pressure is driving people out’: nursery workers warn government childcare reforms will backfire

The government has promised to expand free childcare, and confirmed it will relax permitted ratios of nursery workers to children. But staff around Bristol say nurseries won't survive these changes without a major funding boost.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner
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