When he was planning his first foray up to the “notoriously expensive” Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, primary school teacher-turned comedian John Tothill found himself in need of a cash injection.

As anticipated, the chancellor’s focus was on tightening public spending. With the UK economic growth forecast for 2025 ...

UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus ...

The weekly fires were often left to burn out unsupervised, with the heat causing the roof tiles on an adjacent barn to crack ...

A Clifton-based author has won the prestigious Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. In a ceremony on Tuesday, Harriet Baker was announced as the winner amongst stiff ...

Restricting personal independence payments and freezing incapacity benefits "are shameful choices" from the government, says Ed Fraser ...

In collaboration with live art producers In Between Time, National Trust property Tyntesfield have announced the new and immersive sound installation, Bird. Coming to the rose garden of the historic ...

Dancefloor innovator Bruce came from club music and, after an experiment with vocals-led alt-pop, he’s back to shake things up again. He’s started a new label, Poorly Knit – a place, he says, for ...

A photo of a red fox on patrol in Bristol city centre is the overall winner of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2025. Photographer Simon Withyman had been photographing this vixen for three ...

Keira (Sophie Cox), Zainab (Nina Cassells) and Lucy (Lucy Mangan), are 15 years old and each one of them perfectly captures the three separate personalities. Keira is the boldest of all, and desperate ...

A five-week cargo bike trial in Bristol has set an ambitious goal of drastically reducing van deliveries in urban areas in order to improve air quality. Delivery firm XeroE and logistics company ...

So, what does this mean more widely? At a time when communities and society feel so divided at a local, national and global level, leaving many people feeling less safe and less connected, arts and ...