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BBC News
07-02-2025
- Entertainment
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'Cheese grater' benches and Paddington train vandalised
Here's our daily pick of stories from across local websites in the West of England, and interesting content from social media. Our pick of local website stories One of the two Bathhurst swing bridges in Bristol is going to shut for up to two years from Monday 3 March. The bridge is one of eight harbour bridges which is getting investment from Bristol City Council. You can read the full press release from the council here.150 homes are set to be built near the Taunton Park & Ride, according to Somerset Downton FC - a team near Salisbury - has started a campaign called 'Pause for Thought' urging people to refrain from posting negative personal comments on social media following the death of Alice Clark, a daughter of one of the club's volunteers. Our top three from yesterday What to watch on social media Ian Holloway has been crowned League Two's Manager of the Month. Swindon Town were bottom of the league at the start of December but have gone on a tremendous run in 2025.A GWR train with Paddington Bear on it has been vandalised with flooding in the town, Bradford-on-Avon Town Council are seeing some success in drying out St Margaret's Hall, which may mean the authority does not have to replace the flooring.A swan which crash landed into the middle of a road has recovered and has been released back into the wild, which you can see here – posted by Secret World Wildlife Rescue. Sadly, young swans have a habit of crash-landing on to roads, according to wildlife there's talk in the Spotted Trowbridge of making a calendar of residents posing on the divisive new 'cheese grater' benches in the town, which have been compared to upturned bins.


BBC News
06-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Downton Football Club's social media warning after fan death
A football club has launched a campaign urging people not to post negative comments on social media after the death of a fan. Wiltshire-based Downton Football Club has teamed up with charity YoungMinds to launch the campaign after Alice Clark, the daughter of one of the club's volunteers, took her own club's 'Pause for Thought' campaign urges people to think twice before posting online."Negative words written about a person on social media can have a significant negative impact on their mental health," a club spokesperson said. They added negative posts can cause "anxiety, stress, depression, and lowered self-esteem" if they are widely shared."Think how it would make the writer feel if reading the words about themselves."Think about how the words used might reflect them as an individual," they added. Players will also take part a minute's silence before some league matches this volunteer Paula Henley, who also lost a family member to suicide, said Downton FC held a special match on Boxing Day as a fundraiser for YoungMinds in memory of Alice, who was 15."It was really important, her family were all here. It was very well supported," she said."Her dad was actually captaining one of the teams and I think they really appreciated it as a family – It was very raw at the time."It made sense with what's happened here to engage with them [YoungMinds] as our charity partner." The club's vice-chairman Rae Hughes said it takes its role with the community "really seriously"."The least we can do is use our position in the community and our big social media following and spread the word," he two consecutive weekends in the spring, every Velocity Wessex League team will be encouraged to pause for a minute's silence, with the final game of the season also being dedicated to the FC is raising money for YoungMinds, which specialises in supporting young people with their mental health, via its social media pages. Need help? If you have been affected by this story the BBC Action Line web page features a list of organisations which are ready to provide support and advice.