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BBC News
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Headlines: Tower block fire and eerie shipwrecks
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 Footage of firefighters tackling a blaze at a block of flats near Castle Park features on Bristol Live. Surrounding roads were closed while crews got the blaze under pictures of long-sunken boats being raised from the bed of the River Avon near Bath appear on Somerset Live. The five vessels were attached to salvage airbags and towed away earlier this crews have descended on Marine Parade Weston-super-Mare to film the latest season of long-running BBC show Father Brown, the Weston Mercury reports. Elsewhere another production company has been using West Street as the backdrop for an undisclosed students at special educational needs college National Star, based near Cheltenham, have won an award for completing 200 hours of volunteering in the community, Gloucestershire Live reports. The four have now been invited to Buckingham Palace. Our top three from yesterday What to watch on social media A post from Avon and Somerset Police about 14-year-old Ryan who has been missing since 9 May has been widely shared. The force say he may be using an electric bike to get around.A common parking scam has already been been employed in a car parks operated by South Gloucestershire Council, Yate and Sodbury Voice reports, just a day after charges were introduced. A QR code sticker is posted on signs and payment machines, directing smartphone users to fake payment MP Alex Mcintyre MP has written to NHS Gloucestershire about "dental desserts" in the county. He says the south west is one of the areas "hardest hit" by lack of access to dental of their play-off match on Wednesday, Forest Green Rovers put out a statement warning people the unauthorised sale of football tickets is a criminal offence. The club wrote on Facebook: "Any tickets found to be on sale online or elsewhere can be cancelled by the club without a refund."
BBC News
13-04-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Gloucestershire in pictures: Pelicans, dancing and spring snaps
Spring has most definitely arrived in Gloucestershire and many have been spending plenty of time outdoors enjoying all nature has to this week's roundup of our favourite pictures from the week, we meet a gold crest captured at Westonbirt Arboretum and see some of the beautiful spring blooms on display also a postbox in Cheltenham which has been given an Easter-themed makeover... This foal appeared to be ready to pose for the camera in this beautiful shot taken in Upton St Leonards. We love the beautiful natural light that our Weather Watcher Tone Poet managed to capture so well. The University of Gloucestershire has teamed up with National Star, a specialist college for people with physical disabilities, to provide students with opportunities to express themselves fully through by inclusive teaching and learning processes, students spent 10 weeks preparing for the Dance Celebration Evening at the college's Ullenwood campus. This gold crest was spotted enjoying the spring sunshine at Westonbirt site has a collection of more than 15,000 trees which attract and provide habitats for a diverse range of wildlife. Westonbirt is beautiful to visit all year round, but there is something particularly special about what's on offer at this time of site is filled with stunning blossoms of pure whites and blushing pinks and looks particularly peaceful in this image captured on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Anyone posting letters in Up Hatherley, Cheltenham will be sure to have a smile on their face this week thanks to this Easter-themed postbox topper. Lots of people have been enjoying the sunshine with a visit to Rococo picture captured by Emma Brookes Photography shows the Red House, a Grade II listed garden pavilion. New accessible trails have opened at Beechenhurst in the Forest of Dean. It is part of a project by Forestry England to help people with disabilities, health conditions and access needs to enjoy the forest. One of the BBC's Weather Watchers, Space Walker, captured this gorgeous shot of Little Witcombe under blue April skies.
