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BBC News
08-04-2025
- BBC News
Headlines: NHS staffing issues, plane trouble and closing shops
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 Nursing staff at the Bristol Royal Infirmary are already "stretched to the limit" and are under more pressure because of budget cuts, as reported by Bristol Live.A couple flying from Tenerife to Bristol were escorted off a plane because their card wouldn't process a £7 payment, reported Somerset Live. Ann-Marie Murray said she and her partner had decided to buy a bottle of Coke, water and Pringles while onboard the flight but the card they attempted to use failed to process the payment, and they'd used up all their cash on holiday.A vintage shop in Bristol is to close after 41 years of trading, reported Bristol 24/7. Kate Territo, the owner of Uncle Sam's, said it was down to a decline in footfall on Park Live reported on a BBC Countryfile episode which will focus on the Stroudwater Canal restoration 89-year-old woman is going to celebrate her 90th birthday by walking the entire length of Hadrian's Wall. Mary Nicholson will take on the 84 mile challenge in aid of The Beacon Cancer Centre in Taunton, as reported by Our top three from yesterday What to watch on social media Swindon Town has announced it will wear a one-off charity kit for their game against Bradford City – supporting the Darby Rimmer MND Foundation.A neurosurgery robot at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children has been named 'Captain Cortex' after more than 700 submissions for tags have been removed from Stapleton Road says Bristol City Council to "help residents feel safer in their community".
BBC News
26-03-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Police horse cuts, CPR and Glastonbury Festival
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 A police force losing its mounted unit amid a £12m blackhole was reported by plans for a new cycle path on Temple Way were covered by BristolLive.A woman managing to save her grandmother's life after learning CPR training was published by the Salisbury Journal. Our top three from yesterday What to watch on social media Somerset Council announced that access to Taunton's Silk Mills Park and Ride was limited because of an encampment.A woman in Somerset says she spotted an Avon and Somerset police officer weeing in her in Somerset, Glastonbury Festival announced the full line-up for Field of are being paid to Kingswood Rugby Club's biggest fan who was known as "Mr Kingswood".And there was a lot of love for a post about Professor Alice Roberts visiting Glastonbury Abbey where she was filming for a new TV series.
BBC News
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Strange sky swirl, University Challenge and caravans
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 A strange swirl in the sky over the past few nights spotted by people in Somerset and Bristol was reported by Bristol Live.A pupil in Bedminster was grabbed by a masked man on their way to school.A "legend" of Musgrove Park Hospital, Steve Watts, has retired after more than 40 years there. Somerset Live reported he worked up from kitchen porter to assistant facilities manager. Our top three from yesterday What to watch on social media After more than 10 years, the Beatrix Potter Tailor of Gloucester clock is being reassembled, according to the Eastgate Shopping Cork from the Bristol Post, shared a video of huge numbers turning up to St Albans Church in Westbury Park for a public meeting about caravans on the Animal Shelter has been given a grant of £115,000 so it can fix its leaky kennel College, Cambridge, faced University of Bristol on University Challenge last night for a semi-final place, with the former incorrectly guessing that a Tina Turner song was called Chattanooga Choo Choo, when it in fact was called Nutbush City Limits - prompting a few laughs.
BBC News
14-03-2025
- General
- BBC News
Headlines: Oak tree set on fire and rare lamb quintuplets born
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 There is just an 'E' left to paint before the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood is complete, says Bristol Live.A 350-year-old oak tree set on fire in Stroud and the "fight to save it" has been reported by the Stroud News & Journal. The fire is believed to have been started by books being wedged inside the trunk and set future of the Debenhams building in Taunton has been a popular story for the County Gazette as "breakthrough" talks happen with MP Gideon has started on 146 new homes on the Bath Press site, says Somerset there has been a 'one in a million' birth in Somerset – five lambs were born from the same ewe at a farm in Shapwick. Our top three from yesterday What to watch on social media There are lots of pictures of the partial lunar eclipse, with thanks to our Weather Watchers for some wonderful photos. Read more about the event City has had to ask its supporters to stop throwing objects, saying any form of abuse "will not be tolerated".The Festival of Archaeology is set to return to Gloucester this have ever seen your food bin contents go straight in the back of a bin lorry? Swindon Borough Council explains there are actually two compartments in there, assuring people on Facebook it is not all going in the same heap.
