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Hestercombe House and Gardens, a historic estate near Taunton, has gone into administration, Somerset County Gazette reports.A former Swindon police officer has been barred from the profession after he crashed a colleague's personal car at a station and failed to report it, the Gazette & Herald reports.And Bristol Live covered a story about a surprise party held for a woman who has spent years cleaning up her local park in Knowle.
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A new ceramic painting cafe has opened in south Bristol.Gloucester MP Alex McIntyre posted about the keys to the new City Campus being handed over to the University of Gloucestershire.And a 19-year-old lion at Longleat dubbed the "Queen" of her pride has died peacefully in her sleep - just weeks shy of her 20th birthday.
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