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Alex Turner

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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Talk Club’s Gavin Thorpe – moving the dial on men’s mental health

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By Alex Turner
| The Bristol Cable Verified
Content warning: episode contains discussions of suicide and mental ill-health Talk Club, set up in a Bristol pub seven years ago, offers a space for men to get together and discuss their mental health. That’s something too few of us still do, as shown by the horrible statistic that in the UK, a man dies by suicide roughly every 90 minutes – the length of a football match.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Ben Carpenter – amid knife crime, online harms and isolation, what should our youth services look like?

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By Alex Turner
| The Bristol Cable Verified
In December the government announced plans to invest £500m in the country’s youth services – which were gutted during austerity – and create 50 major new and revitalised youth hubs – including at Docklands in St Paul’s. Shockingly this is the first time there has been a national youth strategy in a couple of decades, since Labour was last in power.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Paul Smith on spending £20m and ensuring Hartcliffe doesn’t get betrayed again

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By Alex Turner
| The Bristol Cable Verified
This week we welcome Paul Smith back to Unpacked . Last time we had him on the show, in 2020, he was in the local news every week as the councillor in charge of Bristol’s housing. For most of the last six years he’s been out of the public spotlight, but in the last few weeks has been selected to help locals decide how to spend millions of pounds of government money in the place he grew up – Hartcliffe.
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