'Railway lines restored' and '70,000 bees removed'

Portishead will now have a railway station decades after the former one was closed

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The government confirmed that work to restore a railway line to Portishead will definitely start, with services to begin in a few years. There will also be new stations in Wellington and Cullompton.

There were celebrations at the start of the week as Somerset's Lando Norris won his first British Grand Prix.

In Swindon, two very distinctive Balinese-style heads are remaining outside the Kioki nightclub in High Street, despite the council ordering them to be removed, according to Wiltshire Live.

A huge colony of 70,000 bees forced demolition work on the Glover's Walk shopping centre to grind to a halt. Beekeepers called in to remove the swarms opted for "plan bee" when placing a hive on the roof to entice the insects out did not work, said the Chard and Ilminster News.

Five years of restoration work to a section of Gloucester Cathedral has finished, according to Gloucestershire Live, with new grotesques installed.

Bristol Live reported that the car park at the rear of the Broadwalk Shopping Centre will never reopen. The owners said they had reached the point where "there is no repair or maintenance that can prolong its life" and the car park, along with the bingo hall and snooker hall on the same site will eventually be demolished.

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Something longer to read

The Somerset County gazette has spoken to one of Taunton's famous residents - in the world of chess. Mickey Adams was once ranked fourth in the world at the height of his playing days, and still makes his living playing the game.

He told reporter Phil Hill that he once won a three-way tie in a 1990 competition using a bingo machine, picking the number nine which was called, "because it was the number of beers he drank the previous night".

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