'Cheese grater' benches and Paddington train vandalised

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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 Live.

And 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.

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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 graffiti.

Following 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 experts.

And 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.