In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

‘Marginalised people are worse affected by the housing crisis’: the Bristol renters facing discrimination and bias

Bristol City Council have pledged to stamp out discrimination in the private rental sector. But it’s not always clear cut.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Sexual harassment

The clinical psychologist specialising in sexual assault: ‘I’ve not had any clients with positive experiences of reporting’

With sexual violence under the spotlight again at Bristol University, a psychologist with clients who are survivors of assault speaks out.

Claire Plumbly
Claire Plumbly

Reports

Pulling down ‘monument to racism’ was right thing to do, Colston toppling trial hears

Trial day 3: The presence of the slave trader’s statue was like a hate crime, a defendant told the jury

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

Council failed to consider removing slaver’s statue despite ‘great concerns’, trial of Colston 4 hears

Trial day 2: The monument brought Bristol ‘face to face with painful, shameful aspects’ of its past, the court heard.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

Colston statue was ‘abhorrent offence’ to city, toppling trial hears

Trial day 1: Prosecutors told the court that the fact Colston was a slaver was ‘wholly irrelevant’ to the case.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Callouts

How do you feel about the not guilty verdict of the Colston 4?

We want to know what you think about the verdict in the landmark trial and what needs to happen next in the wider debate about statues and how we remember our past.

Have your say
The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Voices

How my experiences of renting in Bristol pushed me to campaign for a fairer system

Kate Bower has now left Bristol after struggling to rent in the city and facing discrimination for years. But now she is determined to help make much-needed changes happen.

Kate Bower
Kate Bower

Reports

Bristol councillors vote for mayoral referendum in 2022

Bristol will decide whether to keep the directly elected mayor, or return to the committee system that existed before the last referendum in 2012.

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

‘I pay more in rent than I ever did on a mortgage’: renting in your 40s, 50s and 60s

Renting isn't just for young people. Older renters in Bristol thrown ‘curveballs’ by life are being left financially insecure by the rental market.

Jess Connett
Jess Connett

Reports

Updated plans to redevelop St Christopher’s into retirement community have been unveiled. But some locals still need convincing.

The debate rages on about the future of the site of St Christopher’s, a former residential school for vulnerable children that closed amid a police investigation in 2019.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Video

Watch: The government blocked Bristol’s plans for tackling drug overdoses. This Scottish activist took matters into his own hands.

Cranstoun Project Lead Peter Krykant set up his own safe consumption room in a van in Glasgow. The idea has support in Bristol, so what will happen next?

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Reports

Social care crisis leaves healthy patients stuck in Bristol’s hospitals

The lack of carers in the city is down to poor pay, Brexit, competition from the likes of Amazon and increasingly unaffordable housing.

Stephen Sumner (Local Democracy Reporter)
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