"The Bristol Cable" has broken stories on workplace abuses in the catering sector (October 2014); Bristol University's holdings in fossil fuels, which was used by people campaigning for its divestment and prompted a change by the University (June 2015); ownership of property in the city by offshore companies based in tax havens (January 2016 and January 2018); the Mayor and senior council officials hiding the potential for deep well fracking from councillors and the public, to prevent disruption to the sale of Bristol Port land (May 2016); the use by local police of mass surveillance devices, known as IMSI-catchers or Stingray phone trackers, that eavesdrop on mobile phone and other devices, which became a national news story (October 2016); local companies' links to the arms trade (February 2017); poor working conditions (March 2017); racial bias in Immigration Enforcement officers' stop and checks of people on the street they suspect of immigration offences (October 2017, with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism); and the small share of new property developments given over to affordable housing, in comparison with the official policy of Bristol City Council (March 2018).