Ep. 42 Justice served cold

The Tip Off

News, News & Politics

4.7 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

For years Alon Aviram and Adam Cantwell-Corn followed a story - a story that took them to dingy warehouses, stake-outs in cars, and undercover work in ice cream vans. This is how the Bristol Cable tracked alleged wrongdoing in one of the city’s well-known businesses.

The multi-award winning investigation took years and had big impact… this is how they did it.

Read all about it: https://thebristolcable.org/2019/05/finally-exposed-how-lopresti-ice-cream-boss-kept-men-in-slave-like-conditions-tenants-and-families-in-squalor-but-people-spoke-out/

https://thebristolcable.org/2019/10/revealed-an-anti-slavery-court-order-was-made-against-local-boss-lopresti-heres-evidence-it-may-be-being-breached/

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0:00.0	It's a hot summer's day and the sun is beating down.
0:06.5	The streets swelter in the heat.
0:09.1	There's one sound that can elicit joy in the hearts of children young and old.
0:15.0	The sound of the ice cream van coming round the corner.
0:19.4	And in one city in England, Bristol, the ice cream van is virtually synonymous with one name.
0:25.8	Le Presti.
0:27.2	The Lepreste Ice Cream Company are kind of a city establishment.
0:32.5	They've been around for decades in Bristol, a bit of a landmark institution.
0:38.2	That's Alvaren, editor and founder of the Bristol Cable.
0:42.6	But he's not here to talk about ice cream.
0:45.6	There's something much darker than that going on.
0:48.8	And it starts with Alon trying to make ends meet.
0:53.1	I'm Mayfam Clenigan.
0:54.7	This is the tip-off.
1:19.0	Back in 2014, Alon was just starting up the Bristol Cable, a cooperative news outlet that reports news and investigations in the city.
1:25.7	It's a fascinating business model, relying on local people subscribing to the magazine as part owners,
1:29.1	and then they're able to vote on topics they would like to see covered.
1:35.5	It's been a huge success, but when it first began, it really was a labour of love.
1:38.2	The cable was entirely volunteer run at the start,
1:41.8	so Alec, Salind, Adam Cantwell Corn, myself, who were working on this story from the off, were working in kitchens or waiting in restaurants.
1:49.0	It actually happened to be that I was working in kitchen.
1:53.0	We'd been investigating working conditions in the catering sector in Bristol, looking at general conditions.
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