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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Heather Williams – trauma, community and healing in south Bristol

Heather, the CEO of Knowle West Health Park, talks to Neil about the local response to Max Dixon and Mason Rist's murders, intergenerational trauma and her own 30-year journey as a mother and community worker.

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Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Hope Is Around The Corner

Bristol Patriots ‘unity march’ is a sham. We need to come out to oppose it

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Features

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‘Find your people, find your space’: Lawi Anywar on Bristol’s arts scene

Fran Pope

Features

Bristol’s Kurdish community rallies for Rojava

As attacks intensify in northern Syria, Kurdish Bristolians Tara and Tanya speak to the Cable about betrayal, resistance and why the women-led revolution must be defended

Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson

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Siddhartha Kurapati
Siddhartha Kurapati
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Features

‘If you see it, you can be it’: The cricket club creating a more inclusive game

Ollie Goodwin

Edition 41

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Easton Family Christian Centre: A sacred space reimagined

Community Engagement lead Begonya Miranda visits Easton Christian Family Centre — a church remarkable for its interfaith approach and powerful model of belonging

Begonya Miranda
Begonya Miranda

Photography

Smiling revellers in front of a colourful banner at a Pride parade.

Photo essay: Booty Bass at Bristol Pride 2025

At this year's Pride, Bristol DJ collective Booty Bass led a parade made up of queer people from the global majority in a reminder of the event's radically inclusive origins.

Emli Bendixen

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Siddhartha Kurapati
Siddhartha Kurapati

Photography

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Photo essay: Down on the Farm

Non-league football club Manor Farm FC provides an antidote to the corporate experience of the top tier.

Francis Peppett

Features

A woman with blonde hair works on her laptop at a table in her garden with her child in a pushchair in the foreground

Meet the Bristol author helping women write their way through early motherhood

Juggling early motherhood with a writing career can be challenging. Bristol author Emylia Hall, founder of Mothership, has helped hundreds of creative mums thrive.

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

The Big Story

Two adults and a young child stand on a high-rise walkway with a twilight sky in the background. Both adults are wearing colourful headscarves.

Enduring trauma, and a struggle for justice: one year on from the Barton House high-rise evacuation

On 14 November 2023 an east Bristol tower block was evacuated over fears it could collapse, making national news. A year on, residents tell the Cable about the disruption to their lives, the ongoing impact on their wellbeing and their children's – and how a community has been left traumatised.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval
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