Hartcliffe

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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with former Lord Mayor Paul Goggin on homelessness, mental health and the struggle for south Bristol votes

'It's been eventful', says Paul Goggin, of a life that has featured both rough sleeping and local politics. He joins Neil Maggs to talk housing, faith, and whether Labour should fear Reform in wards like Hartcliffe and Withywood.

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Alex Turner, Neil Maggs and George Colwey

Area in Focus

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South Bristol’s new youth centre is technically in Knowle West. Can it deliver for kids from Hartcliffe too?

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Area in Focus

The car park kickabouts tackling anti-social behaviour in Hartcliffe

Michal Grant
Michal Grant
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Features

Inside the Hartcliffe theatre and creative arts organisation giving a lifeline to south Bristol families

Brave Bold Drama breaks down the financial and geographical barriers south Bristolians face in accessing theatre and the creative arts. But its stability is under threat as one of its founders faces eviction.

Emma Blackmore
Emma Blackmore

Features

Tenants facing eviction at Hartcliffe allotments fight to save a decade of growing

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Voices

‘Children are being deprived of feeling part of their city’

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Features

In Hartcliffe antisocial behaviour is about more than young people acting up

The common media portrayal of Hartcliffe as being closer to Baghdad than Bedminster is clearly nonsense. But the issue is raw and touches on deeper questions.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Edition 19

Meet Kerry, the Hartcliffe community activist on a mission

“We’ve got so used to things being taken away from us, that a lot of people don’t know we’ve got rights.”

Sandi Dheensa

Video

Watch: Hartcliffe Aspirations, a short doc with Paul Holbrook

A moving short film about Hartcliffe and aspiration with local lad and award winning film maker Paul Holbrook.

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Neil Maggs, Matt Buckner and Adam Cantwell-Corn

City

Hartcliffe Children’s Centre: staff numbers halved, parents worried

Staff cuts have hit children’s centres across Bristol under the council’s new model. Hartcliffe, one of the most deprived parts of the city, is no different.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

The disillusioned voters in Labour’s South Bristol stronghold

We headed to South Bristol to hear what voters are thinking about the upcoming election and find out which issues are important to them. We could have spent...

Sid Ryan Koel Mukherjee
Sid Ryan and Koel Mukherjee

City

Burning into national consciousness: looking back on the Hartcliffe riots

Hartcliffe rioted twenty-three years ago, soon after the last Conservative government was elected. We cast an eye back to dark times and the seeds of...

Tony Dyer
Tony Dyer
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