Investigations

Inside Avon and Somerset Police’s new ‘whole story approach’ to catching rapists 

In 2021, Avon and Somerset found itself at the forefront of Operation Bluestone, a groundbreaking initiative to increase rape prosecutions. But is it making a real difference for survivors?

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Investigations

‘Hollow victory’: a rape survivor’s journey through a broken criminal justice system  

More women are reporting rape to the police but prosecutions are at an all-time low. As a new approach to investigating sexual crimes is piloted in Bristol, the Cable follows the story of one woman from reporting to the police to her attacker standing trial.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Babbasa CEO Poku Osei on changing the system from the inside

In the wake of the recent murder of St Pauls teenager Eddie King Muthemba Kinuthia, Neil talks to Poku Osei from Babbasa who aim to empower young people from local income and ethnic minority households.

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media Adam Cantwell-Corn George Colwey
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media, Adam Cantwell-Corn and George Colwey

Life in Lansdowne

Revealed: Catalogue of police failings before Shannon Beirne fell to her death

In the second instalment of this special Cable investigation, we reveal a series of missed opportunities by officers who had contact with the 25-year-old two hours before she died.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Area in Focus

‘My anxiety levels are off the scale’: Tempers fray as student houses multiply on estate

As residents and students clash on High Kingsdown estate, Bristol City Council is being urged to enforce its own targets and lower the number of HMOs in the area. 

Billy Stockwell
Billy Stockwell

Features

More drug arrests but more people in treatment two years into new diversion scheme

Bristol was one of the areas to get funding from Project Adder, a new scheme to divert first time offenders away from the criminal justice system and pursue bigger players in the illegal drug trade. But how is it going?

Mattha Busby
Mattha Busby

Callouts

Callout: Have you been given a section 21 eviction?

Landlords are still using 'no fault' section 21 evictions before the government bans them.

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The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Cable Community News

We’re hiring: People and Wellbeing Lead

In this role, you would help the Bristol Cable maintain a professional co-operative with a culture of care.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Reports

Section of secret report into plans for Bristol underground released

The potential cost of building a Bristol underground is being disputed - between £7bn and £18bn.

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Voices

Bristol Harbour boat dwellers face harsh winter as council bans stoves

People living in boats on Bristol harbour are locked in a legal dispute with the council after it hiked mooring fees. Now, new licences outlawing the types of heaters used on most boats could make life even harder.

George Colwey
George Colwey

Your Bristol Life

Listen: The Sound Of Saffron by Charlie West

As part of this series of podcasts about under-represented parts of Bristol’s history, Charlie West investigates gender inequality in the music industry and what Saffron are doing to overturn it.

Charlie West

Voices

How a Bristol historian found Edward Colston’s brother was a slave trader too

Groundbreaking new research into the city's slave trade by a historian at Bristol University reveals it began 35 years earlier than previously thought.

Dr Richard Stone
Dr Richard Stone (Senior Historian, University of Bristol)
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