Reports

Bristol was one of five areas with illegal air pollution in 2020

The city’s Clean Air Zone is finally coming into force next summer after multiple delays. Campaigners say it can’t come soon enough.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

Windmill pub saved after councillors reject plans to build flats

The campaign to save the pub in Windmill Hill dates back to when it closed in March last year before the pandemic hit.

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

Video

Watch: The filmmakers behind ‘Rooted in Bristol’ discuss land, race and inequality

The new documentary, which premiered at Afrika Eye Film Festival, profiles Bristol’s Black and Afro-Caribbean food growers who discuss the importance of equitable access to land.

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

‘Absolutely hopeless’: Bristol’s young renters on the crazy demand for rooms in the city

Places are snapped up in minutes, landlords are inundated with requests for viewings, and renters are even being forced into bidding wars over properties.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

Families on the frontline of Bristol’s rental crisis

Renting privately when you have dependents adds another layer of complexity to a broken system.

Jess Connett
Jess Connett

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

Why we’re dedicating time to investigate the renting crisis in Bristol

We’ve been collecting the experiences of readers to investigate how Bristol’s rental market has gotten even tougher since the pandemic.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Investigations

A year after opening, some residents fear for their safety at controversial south Bristol flats

Imperial Apartments, a converted Hengrove office block where many flats do not meet space standards, was opened in 2020 to private renters and people facing homelessness. There are serious concerns about conditions there – but with Bristol’s bleak rental market cutting off housing options, some s...

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked on a £23 million gap in the council’s budget, with Craig Cheney the councillor holding the city’s purse strings

After 12 years of central government imposed austerity, that purse is much smaller than it needs to be.

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media Rosa Eaton Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Voices

Bristol midwife: ‘The system is broken and is breaking us with it’

Staff shortages, increased pressure and mental health issues are threatening to cause a mass exodus from midwifery. A Bristol midwife explains why she and her colleagues are taking to the streets this weekend to call for urgent action.

A Bristol midwife

Police and Crime bill

How stop and search will be entrenched by the Police and Crime Bill

Chair of the Avon and Somerset Lammy Group Desmond Brown says new stop and search powers included in the Police and Crime Bill will entrench a lack of trust in the police.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Features

‘How I bounced back from a drug overdose induced coma’

Billy speaks out about his recovery journey, and why it’s so important that support for addiction is out there.

Joe Skirkowski

Fight For Fair Air

Cutting Bristol’s air pollution could help citizens’ mental as well as physical health

Evidence increasingly suggests that traffic pollutants can adversely affect the brain, impact cognitive function, and increase the risk of mental health problems. Bristol’s Clean Air Zone cannot come too soon.

Joanne Newbury
Joanne Newbury
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