Category: Society

Future for Bristol council housing is bright, report says

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Bristol City Council is set to raise an extra £10million a year – enough to build 12 new homes – thanks to changes

Bristol experts find 5,000 slaves buried in mass grave

Slave burial

Archaeologists from Bristol University have unearthed a unique slave burial ground on the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena

Bristol MP attacks priest’s ‘offensive’ gay marriage comments

Stephen Williams

Bristol West MP Stephen Williams has written about Catholic Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s “astonishing” and “grossly offensive” comments

40 jobs to go as Bristol Remploy factory set to close

Remploy

Decision described as “barbaric” as it emerged more than 1,700 people across the UK would lose jobs

First swimmers dive into Hengrove Leisure Centre

Hengrove Leisure Centre

The £35million centre boasts a 10-lane, 50-metre Olympic-standard pool with a teaching pool and movable floor

Occupied: Inside the £3m Bristol squat

Alex, Haile Blessed and un-named squatter inside Clifton Wood House

A group of Occupy Bristol protesters are now living the high life, squatting in a spectacular £3million Clifton mansion

£4,000 bill to restore College Green to former glory

Muddy College Green Bristol

The cost of restoring College Green following the Occupy Bristol protest will be £4,000 – £16,000 less than predicted