Investigations

Riot charges handed to Bristol Kill the Bill protesters are rare in recent history of unrest in Britain

Protesters face up to 10 years in prison after being charged with the most serious of public order offences. Lawyers comment on what this means and how recent riots and protests have been dealt with by the criminal justice system.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

‘Their lives and safety are in great danger’: Students urge Bristol Uni to protect Afghan alumni

A campaign is urging Bristol University to protect fellow alumni - one a women’s rights activist - stranded in Kabul, who fear for their lives as the Taliban retake the capital.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval and Rohan Roy

Police and Crime bill

Four more ‘Kill the Bill’ protesters plead not guilty to riot charge

The defendants could get lengthy jail terms if convicted when they stand trial in May and June next year in connection with the Kill the Bill protest on 21 March.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Bristol History Podcast

Listen: How local industry profited from the slave trade

The hidden history of how the family wealth of Edward Protheroe, famous coal industrialist in the Forest of Dean, was built on the slave trade and labour of enslaved people on sugar plantations.

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell

Solutions in Bristol

Why Bristol Rovers have joined the campaign for football reform

English football is dominated by big clubs and billionaire owners. But calls for a fairer football pyramid are more prominent than ever.

Tom Metcalfe
Tom Metcalfe

Reports

Exclusive: the witness who police didn’t interview after friend’s unsolved disappearance speaks for first time

Jo Hook had dinner with her friend Linda Millard the night before she vanished but was never interviewed by police as a witness. Linda’s disappearance is one of Avon and Somerset Constabulary’s longest running missing person cases, with a possible organised crime connection.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Reports

Bristol pledges to welcome 10 Afghani families fleeing from Taliban rule

The government has set out a plan for the UK to take up to 20,000 refugees but campaigners are calling for more support.

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

Bristol and Beyond

Bristol Hong Kong

Escape from Hong Kong to Bristol: 3 protestors speak out on police brutality and life in exile

They are keeping the spirit of the pro-democracy protest movement alive - and wondering whether they'll ever go home. Content warning: this video contains some violent scenes.

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Edition 26

Swimming in Bristol Harbour is possible. How can we make it happen?

We talk to Julien De Smedt, the architect behind Copenhagen’s first and best-known swimming harbour bath, and Johnny Palmer, founder of local campaign group Swim Bristol Harbour, about what it takes to make a harbour swimmable.

Marcus Smith

Opinion

‘This is how we can scrap crime without doing the time’

Delroy Hibbert, who is currently helping Bristol young people tell their stories, explains why the revolving door of criminality and incarceration needs to be broken with therapy and investment.

Delroy Hibbert
Delroy Hibbert

Reports

‘It’s still in our hands, but only just’: Explainer special on Bristol and climate change

In this special edition of our weekly Bristol Briefing, climate scientists and local activists respond to the landmark IPCC report on climate change.

Matty Edwards Marianne Brooker
Matty Edwards and Marianne Brooker

Investigations

A toxic chemical is being sprayed in Bristol despite pledges, but progress is being made

That circle of dead grass or shrivelled weeds surrounding a bench in a park is probably caused by a weed killer at the centre of a long-running controversy.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn
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