sport

A man dressed in black stands in front of a white wall with the logo of a cricket club.

Features

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

Nationally, less than one percent of recreational cricket players come from African Caribbean backgrounds. The Cable meets the local cricket club with a mission to change that

Ollie Goodwin

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Lee Haskins, the world champ boxer who never left Lockleaze

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Alex Turner, Neil Maggs and George Colwey

Photography

A football fan wearing a flat cap and holding a pint glass cheers, surrounded by other fans.

Photo essay: Down on the Farm

Francis Peppett
A man in a dark jacket stands in front of an overgrown Family Caring Centre sign, surrounded by trees and branches.

Area in Focus

‘South Bristol loses again’: new race to save athletics track

The former Whitchurch Athletics Track risks being bulldozed to make way for a planned housing development. Can local campaigners save it?

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Area in Focus

The car park kickabouts tackling anti-social behaviour in Hartcliffe

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Photography

‘A safe space to be shit at sport’

Alexander Turner
Alexander Turner

Features

Image of Xeena Cooper, The Next Test chair (credit: Alexander Turner)

‘We need people to step up now’: the Bristolians working to save cricket from climate change

Cricket's past is tangled with colonialism, a key root of climate change. Now, it's the pitch sport most at risk from global heating – but a group based in Bristol are working to highlight the threats and protect its future.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

People's History

Image of Bristol City's Ashton Gate ground during a match against Manchester United (credit: Bristol City)

The last time England’s men played football at Ashton Gate – a mere 110 years ago

In 1913, 8,000 fans came to Bedminster to watch the England men’s team play Wales, where foul weather had turned the pitch into a quagmire.

David Hewitt
David Hewitt

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Bristol City’s James Edwards on football, community and politics

Neil chats to James, who helps lead Bristol City's charity arm the Robins Foundation, about the role of football in the community and the furore over Gary Lineker’s criticisms of government asylum policy.

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Neil Maggs, Adam Cantwell-Corn and George Colwey

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with cricketing legend David ‘Syd’ Lawrence, the first Black president of a county club who’s had bananas thrown at him on the field

Fast bowls, nightclubs and bodybuilding – Syd Lawrence is an outspoken local sporting icon who's been around the block in Bristol.

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Aphra Evans, Neil Maggs and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Video

Watch: The new documentary celebrating Bristol’s inner-city walks

The film profiles a grassroots project called Slow Ways which hopes to get more people walking further – with all the associated benefits.

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Aphra Evans and David Mathias

Features

Can Kingsdown Sports Centre and Jubilee Pool be saved?

The public can still have its say on plans to close the two much-loved leisure centres.

Jess Connett
Jess Connett
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