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Bristol Archives awarded £1m to preserve audio heritage

The grant will help to preserve the region's audio history

News / bristol zoo

Alternative plan for Bristol Zoo Gardens site to be unveiled at public meeting

Campaigners from Save Bristol Zoo Gardens are holding an event to present a "reimagined Bristol Zoo”

News / Crime

‘Dangerous’ man jailed for online child sex offences

Adam Pugh was charged with 15 offences that took place between August and October 2025

News / charity

Children’s hospice calls for early diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy

The charity made the appeal following singer Jesy Nelson’s announcement of her twin's SMA diagnosis

News / Cotham

Body found in Bristol park

Police are not treating the death as suspicious

News / clifton suspension bridge

New bridge master appointed for Clifton Suspension Bridge

Tristan Ralph succeeds Trish Johnson, who has held the role since October 2016

News / libraries

Council’s precarious finances means two libraries likely to close

Thousands of people have had their say on which library should be saved from North Somerset's cuts

News / protest

Bristol rally calls for freedom and human rights for Iran

Symbolic caskets were laid out on College Green

News / walking

A bench without a view

A newly installed bench in Bristol directly faces a large stone wall

News / Stoke Lodge

Cotham School ‘suspends all permissive public access’ to Stoke Lodge

It is just the latest escalation in a long-running feud

News / flags

Flags on lampposts to be removed after public pressure

"People should not be putting flags on public property, whether it’s lampposts or railings"

News / Transport

Severn Beach line extension to Bristol Parkway explored

The plan falls short of filling out the long-campaigned-for Henbury Loop

News / Arts

Culture funding to be put into hands of local communities

A unique citizens' assembly is to become a new 'Citizens for Culture' panel with £100,000 of funding

News / flooding

New flood defences for Bristol expected to cost around £250m

Construction of major new flood defences for Bristol will not begin for at least another five years

News / television

Where was Seven Dials filmed?

Bristol features in a number of scenes in new Netflix drama, Seven Dials

News / Growth Strategy

Senior business leaders appointed to drive regional growth strategy

The appointments follow government approval of the West of England's "Growth Strategy"

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