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News / floating harbour

Historic boat sinks in early hours of morning

Greenshank is part of the Bristol Packet fleet

News / avon and somerset police

More than 60 people now arrested after ‘kill the bill’ riot

A 14-year-old boy has also attended a voluntary interview

News / floating harbour

Body found in docks after search for missing man

The death is not being treated as suspicious

News / Joe Jenkins

Playing the piano in a hot air balloon basket

The culmination of 18 months' work for YouTuber Joe Jenkins

News / Nikesh Shukla

Bristol writer Nikesh Shukla turns down MBE

Shukla joins a club including George Harrison, Nigella Lawson and Nitin Sawhney

News / avon and somerset police

Police to apologise after unlawful raid on student flat

Residents say they have since "felt vulnerable in our own home"

News / Politics

10 things we learned from watching Statue Wars

A fly-on-the-wall look inside the mayor's office

News / Business West

Key business demands for Bristol region ahead of G7 summit

Call for leadership in building a more sustainable future economy

News / climate change

Bristol’s new mural exposes the government’s failure on climate change

The mural highlights the government’s anti-climate proposals

News / Education

Government accused of failing children over ‘inadequate’ education recovery package

Bristol politicians have condemned the ‘meagre’ amount

News / CARGO

Powerful public art project invites people to submit designs for empty Colston plinth

‘The ownership [of the plinth] has completely shifted’

News / Edward Colston

Rees: ‘Symbolic actions have to be underpinned by policy and structural change’

The mayor says it was naïve to think toppling statues links directly to change

News / Brandon Hill

Plaque unveiled by Anne Frank tree more than a decade after it was planted

The tree on Brandon Hill was planted in 2009

News / Marvin Rees

Rees considered destruction of Jen Reid statue

The mayor thought about leaving the statue to the mercy of counter-protesters

News / Politics

Kirsten Rees says she wishes her husband was not mayor

It's a rare public appearance for the personal trainer

News / Clifton Village

Residents and traders carry coffin through Clifton Village

Many people are angry that pedestrianisation plans are being pushed through without consultation

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