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Green council leader defends chopping down trees on harbourside

Tony Dyer cited the council's need to provide housing for the felling of dozens of trees

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‘Rogue traders have no place in Bristol’

Bristol City Council's trading standards team recovered £120,000 for victims over the last 12 months

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Council budget could face £117m shortfall in five years

Predictions for funding gap in the 2026/27 financial year are currently at £20.8m

News / Crime

28-year-old jailed for raping women he met online

The man met his two victims on Snapchat and Tinder

News / Ashton Court Mansion

Charitable trust ready to rescue and reopen Ashton Court Mansion

Bristol City Council has granted a memorandum of understanding to Bristol Historic Buildings Trust

News / Politics

WECA deputy to receive healthy pay rise

The pay rise is substantial for the 'roughly honorific title'

News / Development

Trees begin to be felled at harbourside site

Around 70 trees are due to be felled to make room for 166 new flats

News / Housing

Minimum space standards could be introduced for co-living flats

Co-living flats, similar to student flats but for working adults, are on the rise in Bristol

News / Racism

Call for ‘courage’ after councillor receives hate-filled letter

The disturbing incident is being treated as a hate crime by Avon & Somerset Police

News / Politics

Labour councillor suspended for racist comment

Fabian Breckels said he "deeply" regrets making the comment

News / stabbing

Three convicted of attempted murder after Boxing Day stabbing

The brutal stabbing in December 2023 left the victim with life-changing injuries

News / Transport

Bollards become latest battleground in bitter war of words

Labour are calling for a traffic filter to be scrapped despite it being Labour who secured funding

News / Tech

Incubator-based medtech firm to launch ‘rapid diagnostic’ centre

14,000 additional NHS patients are expected to benefit from the new cancer diagnostics centre

News / television

Bristol-spotting in acclaimed new rom-com Film Club

A building and several areas of Bristol are featured in BBC Three's new drama

News / Transport

New stations to run hourly trains

The two new stations will seemingly only run infrequent services

News / University of Bristol

Bristol Uni vice chancellor joins Starmer’s visit to India

Evelyn Welch is one of the 126 who joined the prime minister's delegation to India

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