Improvements have been made at Bristol’s main private psychiatric hospital following a damning inspection and two ward closures last year. Health regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has ...
Key4Life, based in Easton, is helping to reduce youth reoffending in Bristol through an innovative rehab programme aimed at men under 30 who are leaving prison or at risk of going inside. “I don’t ...
With long treatment waiting lists, negative media coverage and rising transphobia, life is becoming harder for trans people ...
From Klezmer to queer folk-punk, Bristol’s Jewish artists are keeping a radical tradition of antifascism alive ...
Back in 2022, Bristol City Council obtained a five-year court order barring landlord Naomi Knapp from renting out her homes. Now, it’s spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money to use ...
Bristol is notorious for its congestion and poor public transport, and has been hit by a worsening bus crisis. As it looks to a new mass transit system to solve its problems, cities such as Rennes and ...
Today, Bristol’s premier music venue will reopen to great fanfare. Bristol Beacon, formerly known as Colston Hall, closed its doors five years ago, but will now welcome audiences again. That’s thanks ...
The East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood (EBLN) was designed to make the area safer and encourage active travel like cycling, giving priority to pedestrians over cars to improve the environment locally ...
This month’s column is a tricky one. It’s not addressed to the so-called Bristol Patriots. It’s addressed to the religious communities they have attempted to engage in bad faith in their forthcoming ...
What is Islamophobia, what do Brits really know about the Islamic faith, and how can we all get along better? Neil gets deep into religion, identity and politics with Rizwan Ahmed of Bristol Muslim ...
At the end of the Second World War, Britain’s chronic housing shortage produced one of the most remarkable outbreaks of civil disobedience in the country’s history. This episode, which took place in ...
Bristol, like many cities across the UK, is in dire need of better talking therapy provision. With one in four people in England experiencing some kind of mental health difficulty each year, this need ...