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 ...

Avon and Somerset is going to the polls to elect the region’s next crime commissioner. We took them to task on their priorities and strategic vision for policing. Following a spate of fatal stabbings ...

We arrived at Bristol Crown Court, at the beginning of the trial on 30 November 2020, to find the press bench no longer available under Covid restrictions. Just as journalists are eventually housed in ...

The murder of James Bulger in 1993 by two 10-year-old boys was an horrific act of violence that essentially led to a huge change in the country’s youth justice system: the abolition of the legal term ...

The Cable is not your average newspaper. In 2014, the UK’s journalism industry was at rock bottom. 2012’s Leveson Inquiry report revealed systemic, decades-long criminality by the tabloid press in ...

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 ...

The British government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was dealt two serious blows this month. Not only was the decision to ban the group found unlawful in High Court, a ...

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 ...

Full disclosure: I’m profiling an organisation I once worked for. I wondered if that counts as a conflict of interest – but I couldn’t edit a print edition themed on youth justice without mentioning ...

On a spring day last year, Heidi Sævareid was walking her dog with a friend through Temple Quay in central Bristol. Stopping by the river for coffee, the pair were enjoying a brief bask in the sun ...

The Green Party have secured a historic victory in Bristol’s local elections, falling just short of taking overall control of the council. After eight years of Labour being in power under mayor Marvin ...