avon and somerset police

• News / protest

  Police sent to wrong hotel and ‘confused’ during racist violence in summer 2024

  A study focused on the events of 2024 when a racist mob attacked a hotel housing asylum seekers

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• Your say / Crime

  ‘Let’s stop pretending this is just urban life; it’s not – it’s neglect’

  Councillor Abdul Malik reflects on his community in St Paul's

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• News / Crime

  15-year-old boy stabbed near shopping centre

  A teenage boy was stabbed in an underpass on the afternoon of Bank Holiday Monday

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• News / East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood

  Pavement parking surge prompts police crackdown

  A letter has urged residents and visitors to stop parking on the south side of Beaufort Road

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• News / Barton Hill

  Police apologise for impact of Barton Hill operation

  "It's important to acknowledge when our response has caused further concern or upset"

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• News / protest

  Protesters and counter-protesters clash at ‘mass-deportation’ rally

  UKIP organised the rally but they were hugely out-numbered by anti-fascist and anti-racist

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• News / Sex work

  BBC documentary reveals unique Bristol project

  Behind-the-scenes report into work done by street sex workers to protect at-risk children

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• News / Avon Fire and Rescue

  Three residents survive house gas explosion

  Emergency services were called to the property in Yate in the early hours

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