Reports

‘I’m not taking any more asylum seekers’: Stagecoach ‘urgently’ investigating discrimination claims

Asylum seekers who are being temporarily housed at a remote Holiday Inn near Bristol Airport have complained of racial discrimination at the hands of bus drivers on the one route connecting them to the city.

Joe Skirkowski

Features

‘We don’t want children leaving school illiterate’: how schools need to step up for dyslexic students

Mike Jones was bullied at school in the 1970s because he couldn't spell his name. Almost four decades later, he developed a program that now helps thousands of dyslexic children learn.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Your Bristol Life

Listen: Bristol Food Famiglia by Steven Mitchell

Your Bristol Life is a new series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell and Marcus Smith

This Week in Bristol

This week in Bristol: The latest after deadly fire at Twinnell House

In the news this week, tragedy struck at a Bristol tower block. After a top floor flat at Twinnell House in Easton was engulfed in flames, a...

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Features

October’s energy price cap rise fuels concern and community action

The Don't Pay energy bill payment strike was called off this week, but the repercussions of the energy crisis will still be stark for many over the coming winter.

Joe Skirkowski

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with cricketing legend David ‘Syd’ Lawrence, the first Black president of a county club who’s had bananas thrown at him on the field

Fast bowls, nightclubs and bodybuilding – Syd Lawrence is an outspoken local sporting icon who's been around the block in Bristol.

Aphra Evans Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media Adam Cantwell-Corn
Aphra Evans, Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Opinion

Colston 4 judgment: ’The government is tearing up our protest rights’

The Colston Four were acquitted earlier this year after tearing down the Colston statue. But a Court of Appeal judgment means protesters will be less likely to receive similar protections in future.

Katy Watts
Katy Watts (Liberty)

Your Bristol Life

Listen: Old Market (REMIXED) by Tom Marshman and Bernie Hodges

Your Bristol Life is a new series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell and Marcus Smith

Reports

Residents question why fire alarms didn’t sound after deadly tower block blaze

A man fell to his death trying to escape the flames and eight people were rushed to hospital after a fire broke out at Twinnell House in Easton.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

This Week in Bristol

This week in Bristol: How is Bristol doing on reducing carbon emissions and inequality?

In the news this week, carbon emissions and unemployment in Bristol have fallen significantly in the last 10 years, but other measures of social inequality...

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

Council in the spotlight amid mounting calls for inquiry into surveillance of SEND parents’ social media

'Explosive' questions likely at scrutiny meeting next week, opposition councillors warn, as inspectors prepare to reassess Bristol’s struggling special education needs and disabilities services.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Reports

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People of Bristol to be consulted on future of housebuilding in the next 20 years

In November, Bristolians will be invited to have their say on the local plan, which sets out how the city will grow over two decades.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)
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