Headlines: 'Boost for housing' and 'dentist queues'

Orchard Grove in Taunton has received a funding boost

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A housing development in Taunton, Somerset, is set to get a cash injection to speed up construction, Somerset Live reports. Orchard Grove is set to get a pay-out from the government's Homes Accelerator Fund.

ITV News features a video of people queuing for hours in the hope of registering at an NHS Dentist in Bristol.

MPs, councillors and residents in Burnham-on-Sea have been discussing why there have been delays in moving on traveller encampments, according to the town's news site. A shortage of designated transit sites is part of the problem.

And a "rare" postcard from 1905 has been shared by a collector, showing the WH Smith as it was then. The shop recently had its TG Jones rebrand, says Stroud news.

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MP Gideon Amos has said Union Jack flags in Taunton were put up by the council for VJ Day, refuting "disgraceful" claims by an organisation claiming members put the flags up themselves.

Wiltshire Police have been doing night time patrols in Swindon to stop predatory behaviour – saying all those stopped were male, and some were aggressive when stopped.

MP Max Wilkinson says he is "concerned and disappointed" that a birth centre at Cheltenham Hospital does not have a date for re-opening. It shut "temporarily" in 2022.

And a 1700s book exploring Salisbury Cathedral's history is going on display there, written by the building's surveyor.