'New dentist checkups' and 'hero bus driver'

A new dental practice in Wellington has had thousands of people sign up to its patient register

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Bristol Live brought us the story of a bus driver in Bristol who evacuated the vehicle when a passenger injured herself and drove her to the hospital in "the world's largest ambulance". He was called a "hero" by the woman he helped.

A new dental practice in Wellington which saw thousands of people signing up to become a patient has promised more NHS appointments by Christmas, according to Somerset Live.

Two parents from Wiltshire have spoken to ITV West Country after an inquest ruled the death of their newborn baby could have been prevented at a hospital in Bath.

The Chipping Sodbury Gazette reports that 1980s band Madness are to headline the next Good Times Festival.

Plans to build more than 400 new homes in Salisbury, with over a third of them being affordable, have been deferred, according to the Salisbury Journal.

And Gloucestershire Live has reported on Miss Cotswolds, who is seeking to become Miss Great Britain at the competition's 80th anniversary.

Top five local stories for the BBC in the West

Something longer to read

The Swindon Advertiser has explored the history of the Sunday school movement, which was started by a Gloucester man in 1780 to help children in the city.

Robert Raikes started the schools on that day because the children would usually be working the other six.

Just eight years after he started his first school, some 300,000 children nationwide were taking part in the classes.

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