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BBC News
11-02-2025
- BBC News
Headlines: Farmer protests and light festival crowds
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 Farmers in Gloucestershire joined the national protests against changes in inheritance tax which will come into force in 2026. The Stroud News and Journal had a video of tractors driving through Live has spoken to one of the traders at this year's Bristol Light Festival who said crowds this year were much smaller compared to other events. Austin Ferrante told the website his turnover was a quarter of what he'd expect to Swindon Advertiser was sent a video of a car transporter lorry which crashed into a bridge just off the A419. The road was closed by police after the incident. Our top three from yesterday What to watch on social media Wiltshire Police would like to speak to three men who could help in an investigation after a woman was assaulted in an alley off Rosebery Street, Broad Green in of shrubs and 175 trees are going to be planted in Swindon along Fleming Way. Swindon Borough Council says the plants are going to replace a grey metal fence which used to be in the central to a 14-year-old student from Worle Community School Academy, Imogen, who has been picked to represent England in the under 15s touch rugby team. Her headteacher said he was "over the moon" with Imogen's achievements.
BBC News
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Bristol Light Festival: Flamingos and giant swing to brighten up city
A beating heart, 1,000 flamingos and a giant swing are just some of the installations set to brighten up a Light Festival, which welcomed 275,000 visitors in 2024, returns on Friday and will run until 9 will include ten installations at different locations across the city, such as College Green, Broadmead and the immersive laser experience which will take over an empty shop at Cabot Circus and celebrate Bristol's "drum and bass legacy" will also be on show. "We try and find artworks that fit into interesting locations across the city," creative director Katherine Jewkes told BBC Radio Bristol."We started out as a weekend festival and now we run for ten days."We're also across more sites now, originally we were just in the city centre... and now we're also in Redcliffe, Temple and Cabot Circus." Bristol Light Festival was founded by the Bristol city centre Business Improvement District (BID) and is being run in partnership with the Redcliffe & Temple artists will include Air Giants, Illumaphonium and Bruce Munro, who all have connections to Munro's Ramandu's Table will showcase nature through an installation of a flock of 1,000 white flamingos."There's locations we know we want to be in because they're so beautiful, like Temple Church," Ms Jewkes added."For that one we've got a piece called Parallels which is this amazing kind of laser sculpture by Architecture Social Club that is going to look phenomenal in that site, because it's that juxtaposition between modern tech lasers and a really historical venue." Ms Jewkes said the event, which is free, is a celebration of Bristol's music culture."We've got a piece called Anthems Volume One which is in collaboration with Run Collective and an artist called Marcus Lyall, who is known for doing the lighting design for Chemical Brothers, Metallica and The Rolling Stones."That came very much from us wanting to celebrate Bristol's drum and bass scene."
BBC News
28-01-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Would you welcome four-weekly bin collections?
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 The prospect of Bristol moving to black bin collections every four weeks has been a big talking point. People have taken to Reddit threads to do discuss how council tax should be divided, and how large black bins should old cinema in Gloucester's Peel Centre – which has been empty for 10 years – has been turned into a "state-of-the-art storage facility", says Gloucestershire Live. The comments encapsulate the feeling of people being video from Bristol 24/7 shows Barton Hill residents once again blocking council workers from implementing the Liveable Neighbourhood a Bristol graduate whose family fled the Taliban in 2000 has made a speech at her graduation about what a privilege it has been to "pursue an education". She's the first in her family to go to university. Our top three from yesterday What to watch on social media Two trucks have been completely destroyed by a fire in Swindon, affecting a local skip is a striking drone picture of the Rive Isle taking over a B-road, which has been posted in the Somerset Levels Friends Facebook group. It follows flooding across several parts of the county. There has been an update from local MP Sarah Dyke that all those evacuated from Primrose Hill Park are in emergency accommodation, with a heartfelt thanks to everyone who Wiltshire, there are still roads closed due to flooding which you can find there is a bit of excitement around Bristol Light Festival returning this weekend.
