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“We have a statue of someone who made their money by throwing our people into water…and now he’s on the bottom of the water.” – Marvin Rees, elected Mayor of Bristol
One man who knows all about the controversy surrounding the statue of Edward Colston is the directly elected mayor of Bristol, Labour’s Marvin Rees.
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Statue of Bristol slaver Edward Colston torn down by Black Lives Matter demonstrators
Protesters have once again taken to Britain’s streets.
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Greta Thunberg joins climate strikers in Bristol
Today Bristol was reverberating to shouts of ‘Greta, Greta’, as the 17-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg gave a short but punchy speech to about 30,000 people.
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Diesel cars could be banned from Bristol city centre
Would you agree to a total ban on all diesel cars in your city centre to bring down air pollution?
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‘County lines’ drug gang members convicted of Bristol murder
Four men have been given life sentences totalling 122 years for killing a London drug dealer operating out of a Bristol flat. The murder was the culmination of a turf war between two groups running ‘county lines’, where dealers use phone lines to sell drugs not only in their own cities, but in other counties too. The…
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Grenada PM Keith Mitchell on Dexter Bristol: ‘No compensation can deal with pain’
The case of a man from the Windrush generation who was threatened with deportation, and was found dead last month, has been raised with the Home Secretary. Grenada’s Prime Minister Keith Mitchell meets Dexter Bristol’s mother, Sentina.
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Who are Bristol’s anarchist arsonists?
An anarchist group has claimed responsibility for more than £20m worth of property damage caused by arson attacks in the Bristol area. Paraic O’Brien travels to the city to find out what is going on
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Bodies of Bristol mother and newborn daughter found
The body of a woman found in late on Wednesday night is identified as missing mother Charlotte Bevan, the body of a baby thought to be her four-day-old daughter is found not far away.
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13 men convicted of grooming in Bristol
Thirteen young Somali men in Bristol have been convicted of grooming, raping and sexually exploiting young, vulnerable girls in the city over a period of months.
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‘Please come back’ – parents of missing Bristol girl
The parents of Yusra Hussien, a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Bristol thought to have fled to Syria to join Islamic State extremists, have made an emotional plea for her to return.
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‘Come back’: family’s plea to radicalised Bristol girl
“Please come back… You are not in any trouble. We just want you to be safe,” say the family of the 15-year-old girl from Bristol who is believed to be heading to join extremists in Syria.
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A tale of three cities: London, Bristol and Newcastle
The capital is attracting a third of 22 to 30-year-olds who leave home, says a new report. It may have the jobs, but what about rent and the all important price of a pint? Channel 4 News compares.
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Two arrests and three men freed in Bristol ‘slavery’ raids
Three men who are believed to be victims of slavery have been taken to a place of safety following raids by police in the Bristol and South Gloucestershire areas.
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Bristol arson attack linked to anarchist terror network
An anarchist cell linked to a Europe-wide network of “insurrectionists” claims to have struck again in Bristol – Channel 4 News can reveal their history of sabotage and arson attacks in the UK.
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Man held in Bristol over Twitter abuse against women
A 32-year-old man is arrested in Bristol in connection with the torrent of violent abuse aimed at Labour MP Stella Creasy and feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez on Twitter.