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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Joe Joyce talking rugby, resilience and making a controversial return to the West Country

Neil sits down with the 'King of Southmead' to discuss social media beef after his recent signing for Gloucester, class and culture in rugby, and how it feels to face the end of a sporting career

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Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Hope Is Around The Corner

Skateboarding and finding Bristol’s best biryani — Resolutions for 2026

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Features

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

Ollie Goodwin

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

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

Neil chats to former world champion Lee Haskins about keeping rooted in community and family, life after the ring and why boxing gyms are more inclusive than you might think.

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Alex Turner, Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media and George Colwey
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Photography

Photo essay: Down on the Farm

Francis Peppett
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Area in Focus

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

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Area in Focus

The car park kickabouts tackling anti-social behaviour in Hartcliffe

Football charity the Robins Foundation responded to reports of antisocial behaviour outside Hartcliffe’s Morrisons by organising football sessions in its car park. It’s led to a claimed 60% drop in complaints.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Photography

‘A safe space to be shit at sport’

DUMP FC is a mixed-ability, mixed-gender football group that defines itself as a ‘friendly and safe space to be shit at football’. 

Alexander Turner
Alexander Turner

Features

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‘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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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 / Maggs Smart Media and Adam Cantwell-Corn
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