This Week in Bristol

Windows of a high-rise block, behind bold text saying 'rent controls'

This week in Bristol: The council wants your opinion on rent controls

In the news this week, the council is seeking residents' views on rent controls as it plans to lobby the government for more powers.

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked on welcoming refugees amid the culture wars, with Fuad Mahamed, Ashley Community Housing CEO

The man who founded Ashley Community Housing discusses navigating the fraught political landscape of immigration.

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

Reports

A map of heat networks that will be created under Bristol's City Leap programme

Councillors sign off 20-year deal aimed at decarbonising Bristol’s energy networks

Councillors this week approved the two-decade City Leap partnership, paving the way for hundreds of millions of pounds to be invested into heat networks, retrofit and other renewable technologies in Bristol.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Edition 31

The ripped off customers who fought back against an online carpentry business

People across Bristol are owed hundreds of pounds by a mysterious carpentry business operating on Facebook, and feel let down by the authorities’ response.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

This Week in Bristol

A pink and purple First Bristol bus, parked

This week in Bristol: Politicians push for public control of buses

In the news this week, the latest raft of cuts to Bristol bus services has pushed local politicians to call for a radical change to the operation of transport in the region.

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Reports

‘We see it as a warning’: Barton Hill’s Muslim community on impact of pig’s head hate crime

A pig’s head was dumped near a mosque in Barton Hill last month in a incident that's triggered residents' memories of previous anti-Muslim hate crimes in the area.

Alex King
Alex King

Building safety in Bristol

Flammable polystyrene cladding used on Bristol towers: was the writing on the wall?

After two fires at tower blocks fitted with expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation, Bristol City Council is stripping the flammable material from all its high-rises. But experts say it should never have been allowed in the first place.

Ella Jessel
Ella Jessel

Voices

Image of the 2021 UCU Bristol strike

‘Academic and support staff are suffering – it’s time for universities to dip into their rainy day funds’

University of Bristol staff deserve a pay rise after years of real-terms cuts, so why won’t it lift salaries? Recent growth is unsustainable, and investing in pay could help not just workers but local businesses and the city.

Jeff Pocock

People's History

A history of Bristol’s healthcare for the working classes

It's a myth that there was little or no access to free medical care before the establishment of the NHS in 1948 – but progress was slow, unequal and sometimes grisly.

Eugene Byrne
Eugene Byrne

Edition 31

‘I can’t die, I’ve not made my solo album’: Holysseus Fly on overcoming cancer and looking forward

The Bristol singer-songwriter and Ishmael Ensemble member discusses overcoming breast cancer at just 25 and launching her career as a solo artist.

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Edition 31

‘We need to keep the local currency dream alive’

The Bristol Pound’s managing director discusses the rise and fall of the local currency project, where it went wrong, and why we should keep experimenting.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Image of Just Stop Oil activist Dr Patrick Hart and Bristol Unpacked presenter Neil Maggs

Bristol Unpacked with local GP Patrick Hart, fresh from court for sabotaging a petrol station with Just Stop Oil

'A deranged criminal eco-terrorist cult' or canaries in the climate coal mine?

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