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We've Got Your Boy

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 5, The Streets Don’t Love You

Exploring the role of love in addressing the issues that underpin serious youth violence, why plans to transform the youth justice system are stalling, and how other countries are miles ahead

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Cable Community News

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Editorial: Why the Cable will be shining a light on child imprisonment

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Opinion

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School exclusion, child imprisonment and a state of punishment

Chris Bagley
Chris Bagley
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The Big Story

Filton 18: ‘The more you oppress people, the more they will rise’

The British state is treating Palestine Action activists who targeted an Elbit Systems Israeli arms facility on the outskirts of Bristol like terrorists – subjecting them to repressive sanctions in jail as they await trial.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison
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Features

Are self-swab kits ‘the start of the end of sexual violence’, or could they cause more harm than good?

Laura Butler
Laura Butler
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The Debrief

Listen: The Debrief – what a leaked police report revealed about racial inequalities in stop-and-search

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Sean Morrison, Priyanka Raval and George Colwey

No to Section 60

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Black children and adults strip searched 25 times more often than white peers in Avon and Somerset, leaked report reveals

EXCLUSIVE: The sensitive ‘deep-dive’ review also reveals the police officers who prolifically and disproportionately stop and search Black people in Bristol.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

Police and crime commissioner candidates on knife crime, institutional racism and public health policing

Avon and Somerset is going to the polls to elect the region's next crime commissioner. We took them to task on their priorities and strategic vision for policing.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

People's History

Before the Second World War, Castle Street, where Mary Burridge took from Woolworth’s was one of Bristol’s main shopping streets

How a media backlash led to a St Paul’s woman’s dramatic release from prison

In 1933 Mary Burridge, a poor mother of five, was sentenced to a month’s hard labour after stealing a few items of food at Easter. But after a national outcry over her treatment, a wealthy lawyer flew to Cardiff to free her from prison.

David Hewitt
David Hewitt

Reports

Bristol rogue trader slapped with criminal order after victims built dossier to expose him

Lewis Thomas, who operated anonymous carpentry businesses on social media, has six months to pay back £5,000 after pleading guilty to fraudulent practices.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

People's History

‘An intolerable anachronism’: it’s 60 years since the last hanging took place in Bristol

On 17 December 1963, the final judicial execution in our city brought a long history of local executions to an end. We look back on what happened in Horfield in 1963, and the campaign to end the death penalty.

Eugene Byrne
Eugene Byrne

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with filmmaker Aodh Breathnach on surviving being stabbed – and documenting its impact on him

With knife crime a tragically common part of life in Bristol and other cities, Neil talks to Aodh about the psychological trauma of being the victim of an attack, and the process of recovery.

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Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media, George Colwey and Priyanka Raval
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