Jan 31, 2025 · 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.

Aug 29, 2024 · As the deadline for our membership campaign, 31 August, approaches we’re pleased to announce that the Bristol Cable has now reached 107% of our campaign target!. One month ago today, The Cable turned 10; and it’s honestly a brilliant feeling to be able to celebrate our birthday by achieving the goal we’ve been working towards for a year.

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Keep The Lights On. The Bristol Cable is one of the UK’s only independent, investigative local papers. And we just achieved our £60k membership target!

This Week in Bristol. This week in Bristol: Demonstrators say council is “refusing to correct” conservation mistake. After accidentally giving a landowner permission to cut down an ancient Bristol hedgerow with protected status as a biodiversity haven, …

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No clickbait. No pop-up ads. No spin. Just real, proper journalism. The future of independent, hard-hitting media is in your hands. If you are anti-corporates, anti-oligarchs and anti-bulls#!t, then it’s time to #BackTheCable.

After her own personal journey, Lisa Whitehouse is determined to spread awareness and help others through her work. Bristol University is an institution famed for its world-leading climate research. But over recent years it’s taken £3m from oil, …

Jun 24, 2024 · The Cable’s ‘Boot Out Bailiffs’ campaign in 2018 came after we asked our members at that year’s AGM whether they wanted us to push for political and policy changes that would benefit large numbers of people across the city. Overwhelmingly, members voted that we should and the Boot Out Bailiffs campaign was the first to launch. Bristol City Council had been using a private company to ...