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News / Bristol Parks Forum

‘Central Bristol needs a new big park’

Bristol Parks Forum has ambitions for "a large, multifunctional green space" to serve new residents

News / Politics

Tom Renhard: ‘I want to make sure we do good stuff in Bristol’

Bristol's Labour leader was only elected as a councillor in May 2021

News / Development

Demolition begins at Redcliffe Wharf

Planning permission has been granted for a mixed-use development

News / Politics

Greens target 1000 affordable homes per year

"Bristol has the opportunity to put Green policy at the heart of all decision making"

News / charity

Gashead raising money for charity by wearing City shirt to the Mem

David Hewett is donning the shirt as part of Wallace & Gromit’s Wrong Trousers Day

News / Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone

Go ahead for 500-bed student accommodation in Bristol Temple Quarter

Unite Students plan to have the development ready by 2026/27

News / Edward Colston

Plaque plinth palaver

Councillors have again refused to accept the suggested wording for a new plaque on Colston's plinth

News / Together for Change

The threat to vital safe spaces for young people in Bristol

"A lot of our children just have no hope for the future"

News / Politics

Emotion, backslapping and fond farewells at final cabinet meeting

The last game of Marvin Rees bingo was played in City Hall on Tuesday afternoon

News / Obituaries

Cotham-educated Nobel Prize winner Peter Higgs dies aged 94

The Higgs boson is named in honour of the eminent physicist

News / homelessness

Bristol homelessness charity puts call out for volunteers

St Mungo's has called out for extra pairs of hands to help them tackle homelessness in Bristol

News / Local elections 2024

All the candidates running in the 2024 local elections

Your guide to who is standing to be a councillor in which ward across Bristol

News / Windrush

Bristol charity awarded funding for Windrush celebrations

The organisation was one of 28 across the country to receive the government grant

News / Latin American Market

Latin American Market returns to St Paul’s for second year

"We aim to create a space where Latinos have a place to reconnect with a piece of their homeland"

News / police and crime commissioner

Police & crime commissioner candidates confirmed

We'll be electing Avon & Somerset's new PCC on May 2

News / avon and somerset police

Surrender bins see 175 knives taken off streets in a year

"Carrying a knife does not keep you safe”

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