Popular swimming spot near Bristol could be cleaned up after thousands sign petition

Campaigners gathered outside City Hall this week in a colourful protest against a council byelaw restricting swimming at Conham River Park.

Bristol councillors vote for independent inquiry to investigate monitoring of SEND parents

Opposition councillors clashed yet again with the mayor and cabinet member for education Asher Craig over allegations of social media 'spying'.

Charities distance themselves from council review into ‘spying’ on SEND parents’ social media

As councillors prepare to vote on an independent inquiry into alleged online surveillance of parents of children with special educational needs, third parties named in an internal report have challenged the council's narrative.

Council forced to pay out compensation after failing SEND student for months

The teenager missed half a year of speech and language therapy that they should have received.

This week in Bristol: More Bristol workers taking strike action

It's possible that nurses could join postal workers and college staff on the picket line.

Twinnell House residents still waiting for answers on smoke spreading and sprinklers following tower block fire

Council chiefs failed to show up to a residents meeting to answer questions on why no sprinklers have been installed in the high rise

‘It’s a double stigma of menstruation and mental illness’

PMDD is a debilitating and poorly-understood condition affecting one in 20 people with periods, 34% of whom have attempted to take their own life.

‘We cannot afford, financially or emotionally, to fight to be heard’

Stephanie Cullen has fought PMDD, a severe mental health disorder, ever since she began to menstruate. She's calling for a healthcare system that recognises women's health conditions.

This week in Bristol: Benefits falling behind spiralling rents

In the news this week, we revealed how benefits aren’t keeping up with spiralling rents in the city. “I feel I’ve got no security at...

‘This is a film about justice.’ The long-awaited I am Judah documentary premieres in Bristol

The 'I am Judah' documentary depicting the brutal tasering by the police of community elder Ras Judah premiered this week and raises ongoing concerns with the racist policing of Bristol’s Afro-Caribbean communities.

‘It leaves you with a sense of dread’: Bristol’s broken rental market one of England’s worst for families on housing benefit

Over a whole month, just one two-bed property in the city was affordable to private renters claiming housing benefits, according to new research by the Bureau for Investigative Journalism.

Bristol high rises to be inspected for fire safety after Twinnell House tragedy

New government regulations require the council to inspect fire safety at all the tower blocks it owns.