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      England internationals Kyle Sinckler and Lewis Ludlam set to join Toulon

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 23:21


    • Forwards were selected in last year’s Rugby World Cup squad
    • Bristol prop Sinckler has 68 caps, Saints flanker Ludlam 25

    England forwards Lewis Ludlam and Kyle Sinckler will join Toulon at the end of this season, ruling them out of selection for the national team.

    Prop Sinckler, who has 68 England caps, will leave Bristol Bears and Northampton flanker Ludlam, who has made 25 England appearances, will sign three-year contracts with the Top 14 club, the BBC reported.

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      ‘It’s not Banksy’s; it’s mine’: artist says Bristol plaque to adulterer is a copy

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 07:00

    London-based artist raises copyright infringement issues when artworks go viral online and are recreated without credit

    It began as a story about a mysterious plaque on a Bristol bench – but the strange tale of an engraved tribute to a deceased adulterer is now raising wider questions about copyright and who gets credit for creativity in the art world.

    Photos of the brass plate paying tribute to a supposedly deceased adulterer called Roger went viral last week, after it was affixed to a wooden bench on Royal York Crescent in the upmarket district of Clifton.

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      ‘It was so wrong’: why were so many people imprisoned over one protest in Bristol? – podcast

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 05:00


    More people have been imprisoned for rioting during a single day in Bristol in 2021 than in any other protest-related disorder since at least the 1980s. What was behind this push to prosecute so harshly? by Tom Wall

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      ‘I think it’s a Banksy’: mystery plaque for adulterer ignites speculation in artist’s home city

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 16:00

    Sardonic tribute to cheating husband ‘Roger’ on bench in Bristol prompts mention of elusive graffiti artist

    The amateur sleuths, conspiracy theorists and mischief makers on the sweeping Royal York Crescent in Clifton, Bristol, all have opinions about a mysterious plaque appearing to out an adulterous husband.

    The brass plate engraved with “For My Love/Husband, Father, Adulterer/Yes, Roger, I Knew” quickly attracted attention after it was attached to a wooden bench on the grand crescent’s terrace at the end of last week.

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      Edward Colston statue placed in quiet corner of Bristol museum

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 14 March - 18:12

    After consultation with Bristol people, visitors must make deliberate choice to see toppled statue of slave trader

    It is undoubtedly the most well-known artefact in Bristol’s waterside museum, but rather than being given a prominent position it has been tucked away in a modest case at the back of a first-floor gallery.

    Finding the right setting in M Shed for the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston , which was pulled from a plinth in the city and thrown into the harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, has been a delicate task.

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      Our justice system failed the young Bristol protesters | Letters

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 11 March - 18:22 · 1 minute

    Family members of the young people sent to prison tell of the disproportionate sentences that were meted out and the devastating impact it has had on all their lives

    Thank you to Tom Wall for keeping the story of the Bristol protest alive in his long read ( ‘It was so wrong’: why were so many people imprisoned over one protest in Bristol?, 5 March ). I’m the mother of one of the young people convicted of riot at the “kill the bill” protest in March 2021. My son is currently in prison serving his sentence. He was 19 years old at the time of the protest. A bright university student with no protest experience and no criminal convictions, he had never before been in trouble with the police. He was assaulted by the police like many others, but later put on a wanted list, arrested and charged with riot. This has affected him severely, and he tried to kill himself shortly after.

    He was dragged through the courts, which affected his mental health even further. He couldn’t face any more pressure and pleaded guilty. It’s hard to describe the effect it has had, and will have, on him and the whole family for the rest of our lives. But we are united and we will get through this. As for my son, we know he will achieve greatness after prison. He’s studying while inside and is determined not to give up. He has all the support he needs from family and friends.

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      ‘It was so wrong’: why were so many people imprisoned over one protest in Bristol?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 5 March - 05:00

    More people have been imprisoned for rioting during a single day in Bristol in 2021 than in any other protest-related disorder since at least the 1980s. What was behind this push to prosecute so harshly?

    On the afternoon of 21 March 2021, Fleur Moody hurried through the graffiti-sprayed backstreets of Bristol. She and her partner were on their way to join a march against proposed laws that would give the police extensive new powers to clamp down on protests. They caught up with the march just before it streamed into a park overlooking the city’s harbour.

    Moody, who was 26 at the time, was getting her life back on track after years of mental health problems and addiction. She sat on the grass with friends sharing food and drinks in the last of the sunshine. “I was quite fragile,” she told me recently. “But I’ve always believed people have a right to protest and have their voices heard.”

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      ‘It’s greed, that’s what it’s about’: documenting the UK’s cost of living crisis – photo essay

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 1 March - 07:00

    Photographer Kirsty Mackay’s project The Magic Money Tree explores the impact of poverty in the Black Country, South Shields and Bristol

    In 2023 I set out to document the UK’s cost of living crisis. I had a picture in my mind that what we were experiencing was the culmination of 13 years of Conservative governments. The work is titled The Magic Money Tree after Theresa May’s words on BBC Question Time: “There isn’t a magic money tree that suddenly delivers all the money everybody wants.”

    I spent a month visiting the North Bristol food bank, talking to people, listening to their experiences and gathering stories. We decided not to photograph people using the food bank but to take their experiences and write them large across bus shelters and pavements on the high street.

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      ‘It’s on our doorstep’: Bristol’s fearful parents seek answers after three knife deaths in three weeks

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 24 February - 12:02

    As teenage victims are mourned across the English city, some believe the return of youth centres would keep children safer

    Terre Baptiste has been checking her teenage son’s whereabouts compulsively since a 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed two weeks ago in a park a mile away from their home in the east of Bristol.

    “It is very worrying,” says Baptiste, in her living room. “Bristol isn’t a perfect city. But there weren’t stabbings one after the other. It was few and far between. Now it is on our doorstep.”

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