Celebrating Bristol

Nightclubs, neighbours and newsagents - how people are making the city a better place to live.

The cared-for become carers

Elm Tree Farm is a working farm in Stapleton providing support and training to adults with learning disabilities and autism. Photographer Esther May Campbell spent a year documenting it.

I’m voting to stop the assault on disabled people’s rights

I am one of the 89% of disabled people intending to vote in this election. Cuts to services, a rise in hate crimes; as a group we have been especially impacted in these austere times.

“It will be more difficult to cope.”

Disabled people and carers speak out on Bristol cuts impacts.

How will council cuts affect you? Social care

The Cable would like to hear from readers about how you think the council’s proposed cuts will affect you or your family.

Bringing braille back from the brink

Braille literacy has been in dramatic decline. Yet in Bristol, users and innovators are joining forces to create technology to save it.

5 more years of austerity! Frontline workers speak out

Following on from yesterday’s big anti-cuts demonstration in Bristol we spoke to frontline workers about their fears for the next five years. The shock is wearing off,...