The Latest Breaking News from Bristol

Search efforts widen for ‘kindest, most compassionate’ Brit missing in New Zealand for a week

Around 40 search and rescue volunteers are searching for Eli Sweeting, 25, who is originally from Bristol

The Independent UK · May 11, 2025

Police appeal for information after a man exposed himself and masturbated on board a London Paddington train

Police said the incident took place on Thursday, March 20, on board a 10pm train travelling from Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington

Evening Standard · May 10, 2025

Willkommen, bienvenue! New festival celebrates translated fiction from Cameroon to Slovakia as sales boom

Co-organised by translator Polly Barton, Translated By, Bristol will feature conversations between writers and their translators, plus a ‘translation duel’

The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2025

Breastfeeding mother threatened with £50 fine for bringing breast milk onto EasyJet flight

Daisy Crawford was travelling from Bristol to Belfast on April 27 after visiting friends and family in Devon

Evening Standard · May 1, 2025

Man murdered couple before freezing remains and dumping bodies in suitcase on Bristol bridge, court hears

The killing of one of the men was caught on camera, jurors heard

The Independent UK · Apr 30, 2025

'It was like an earthquake': Witness recalls moment Bristol house burst into flames after 'gas explosion'

Three people have been hospitalised after the house, in Yate, burnt to the ground

Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025

Three taken to hospital and homes evacuated after ‘gas explosion’ near Bristol

The house in Yate was burnt almost completely to the ground during the blaze, which followed the explosion on Tuesday morning.

Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025

New flats in England and Wales may soon all be commonhold. But what does it mean?

‘It’s very hands-on,’ say neighbours in a commonhold Bristol block set up 15 years ago and managed by the flat owners

The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2025

Once a bestseller, now forgotten – why William by E.H. Young deserves a revisit

In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Franz Kafka’s The Trial, another novel also quietly turns 100. William was published in 1925 by the once-celebrated, now largely forgotten, E.H. Young.

The Conversation · Apr 22, 2025

Quade: The Foel Tower review – twisted Bristol band tap into the tensions between industry and nature

Drawing on folk, jazz, ambient, post-rock and doom, the quartet’s new album shrouds cryptic, literate lyrics behind rumbling bass blasts and writhing strings

The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2025