Hannah Miller

The £60,000 Bristol artwork that's less than six months old... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Damien Egan’s full interview on rearranging his school visit five months after it was ‘cancelled’ due to a planned pro-Palestine protest outside the school gates: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Remember when Damien Egan was ‘banned’ from visiting a school in his constituency? The visit has now happened - in secret - and he gave his first interview to Politics West: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Labour mayor Helen Godwin won't fund a 24-hour bus gate on Park Street in Bristol - so the Green Party-led council is going to try to find the money itself bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The Charity Commission is looking to suspend Easton mosque chair (and Green Party councillor) Abdul Malik for three years bbc.com/news/articles/…

West of England mayor Helen Godwin says she won't fund free bus travel for asylum seekers from her own budget - but writes to the Home Secretary urging her to consider issuing bus tickets "where appropriate" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

On the youth guarantee, what does 'a guaranteed paid work placement' actually mean? A week? A month? The Bristol pilot scheme offers a two-week placement, but there's no guarantee of a job at the end of it (and it's too soon to know the results). bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Emails from Winford Parish Council suggest the Home Office started to use this hotel in 2022, when the Conservatives were in government.

“The flag represents all of us in England, regardless of our original heritage”, says Tony Dyer, the Green leader of Bristol city council, on @BBCBristol “We are an English city… we are also a city of sanctuary, those two things are not contradictory.”

Bristol’s Green council leader Tony Dyer tells @BBCBristol he's “happy" to see flags being flown across the city. Says some people have approached the council because they feel uncomfortable, but “it's time for us to reclaim the flag”.

Helen Godwin told @johndarvall that a new Comms Director, paid more than her, will help WECA tell its story to residents and government @BBCBristol bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@astronaimee Hi Aimée - just meant here's an article that explains what the policy is, rather than the 'politics' of who is rebelling etc.

Away from the politics of it all, what are the plans that the government wants to get through as it tries to limit the rise in welfare spending? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Spoke to a woman yesterday whose husband has a serious neurological condition. He wears splints, has frequent falls, experiences daytime fatigue, sometimes chokes on his food - but under the new rules wouldn't qualify for PIP.

People would only qualify for PIP if they score ‘four points’ in a single category. What does that actually mean? You could be at risk of choking, need help to wash hair or lower limbs, need prompting to go to the toilet - and not qualify.

‘We’ve been left to manage this by ourselves’ @ProtectTheDowns organiser addresses hundreds who’ve gathered to urge the council to stop people living in vans here. Some people from the vans are here too. ‘Only when we listen to everybody’s views are we going to find a solution’

And the wider question, in the context of rising rents… How do you reconcile people who think it’s a totally legitimate decision to live in a van, perhaps in order to cut their costs or their commute, with others who see that as an ‘lifestyle choice’ that shouldn’t be allowed?

Bristol city council says it wants to ‘try’ to make sure there are 250 spaces on designated sites for people living in vans across the city. That would be a big increase from around 60 places right now. But it’s nowhere near the approx 650 lived-in vehicles across the city.

‘Leave us alone’ - people living in vans on the Downs in Bristol say that a community campaign to get the council to move them on is having an emotional impact. This week we saw very vividly how tense the situation has become. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…