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Opinion

Being a Crip is a radicalising experience

With the government’s disability benefits cuts coming into force, communities in Bristol and around the country are resisting under the banner Crips Against Cuts

Teodor Hykel

Reports

A fountain in front of City Hall in Bristol, a curved building

Bristol councillors vote down Marvin Rees’ final budget after bad-tempered debate

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

A single-storey library building framed by trees

‘Stealth closures’ of libraries leave casual staff facing hardship and city with fewer warm spaces

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Watershed CEO Clare Reddington on cinema, class and council cuts

As Bristol City Council slashes spending on venues including arthouse cinema Watershed, Neil asks its boss Clare why funding the arts matters, and whether the sector's reputation as catering mainly to the well-heeled is justified.

Neil Maggs George Colwey Alex Turner
Neil Maggs, George Colwey and Alex Turner

Reports

Bristol City Council is nearly skint: the local government financial crisis explained

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Voices

Healing is a justice issue: how can we radicalise the voluntary sector, amid a perfect storm of cuts?

Maria Carvalho

Features

Image of campaigners with dentist Gaye Herford outside the BUPA practice in St Pauls, Bristol (credit: Alexander Turner)

‘What the hell can people do?’ Looming St Paul’s dentist closure shines light on a national crisis

Emptying savings, travelling miles for care, DIY dentistry and worsening health inequalities – campaigners and residents have been telling the Cable what the end of BUPA’s practice on Ashley Road will mean.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Reports

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Bristol’s final council-run rehab centre set to close as part of adult social care cuts

A cabinet decision to close East Bristol Intermediate Care Centre will put more than 25 jobs at risk, but the council argues that sufficient alternative services are available in the city.

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

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Controversial plans to relocate Bristol’s Central Library scrapped after public outcry

The cost-saving proposal to relocate the library from College Green was met with strong opposition.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Edition 20

Time to play as Bristol launches plan

Work with under-11s was cut when the council cut its youth services budget by 30% last year, but Bristol’s organisations have come together to find...

Joe Skirkowski

Moving on: Bristol's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities

Traveller kids are being “pushed out” says teacher

We talk to the Traveller teacher who’s watching her service disappear.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Investigations

Revealed: Patients denied treatment by local NHS

GPs and clinical specialists are worried about patients being turned away because of local NHS policies.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards
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