Matty Edwards

In-depth coverage of Bristol’s local election that cuts through the bulls#!t.

The council’s budget black hole will rise to £32m. But as local government heads for bankruptcy elsewhere in England, something has to give.

Bristol City Council’s vow to stop using bailiffs to collect unpaid council tax is giving people breathing space. But debt levels are spiking

The government’s failure to raise minimum energy efficiency standards of privately rented properties will leave many renters in cold homes.

Residents of Queens Court have faced damp and mould issues, and complaints being ignored – and have now been handed a steep rent hike.

A ‘liveable neighbourhood’ trial will stop cars driving through a large area of east Bristol. The plans have sparked support and opposition.

Four years after the government promised to ban no-fault evictions, renters are still waiting for a lifeline in the Renters Reform Bill that would correct the power imbalance with private landlords.

The regeneration of Whitehouse Street will change the face of Bedminster. So how does the masterplan shape up on affordable housing, high rises and protecting jobs?

Amid calls for Bristol’s bus services to be franchised, passengers share their stories of struggling to get to work and education on time.

A wave of new housing developments is coming to Bedminster, Southville and Windmill Hill. So a new community project asks what the future should hold for the area.

Bristol City Council is set to formally back introducing rent controls alongside a raft of other measures to reform the private rented sector.

Bristol customers owed hundreds of pounds feel let down by the authorities’ response to reports of online fraud.

After months of chaos in Westminster, Kerry McCarthy, Labour MP for Bristol East talks Keir Starmer, climate change, immigration and taxation

Plus the latest on Turbo Island, the energy crisis and Voi e-scooters.

Carl Williams, 29, was the first monkeypox patient to be admitted to Southmead Hospital. He speaks out about the desperate need for more education about the rare disease and gives his advice to stay safe.

As properties are advertised at eye-watering prices, there have been calls for regulation of short-term and holiday lets in Bristol.

The land around Temple Meads is slated to be Bristol’s biggest regeneration project, but how concerning are the development’s flood risk warnings?

The city’s mental health trust is failing to stop out of area placements, but it’s an uphill battle amid high demand for treatment, limited funding and staffing shortages.

Born in Redcliffe in 1752, Chatterton produced a great body of poems, plays and prose works before his death as a teenager.

In the latest in a series of payouts from the force, Avon and Somerset Police were found to hold records incorrectly describing her as having ‘split personality, violent when not medicated’.