We're not sure who's responsible but the statue of William III in Bristol's Queen Square is sporting a new accessory today, leading to much bemusement on Twitter.

A Swindon councillor has resigned from the borough council's cabinet over non-payment of a council tax bill.

Councillor Dale Heenan, responsible for Highways and Transport, faced a court summons after disputing the amount he owed.

In his resignation letter to council leader David Renard, Mr Heenan admitted he "should not have allowed the issue to proceed so far".  

Mr Renard described the matter as "embarrassing" and "difficult".  

A father of two who went missing for 10 days has been found safe, his brother has said.

Wayne Stirrups, 30, from Canterbury in Kent, told his family he was going to Cardiff to visit his sons, but had not been seen since 17 November.

More than 1,200 posters were put up in Bristol, Cardiff and London over the weekend to help find him.

Jason Stirrups said his brother returned to his mother's house in Canterbury on Monday night.  

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Households in Somerset could only have their bins emptied once every three weeks under new proposals.  

Somerset Waste Partnership, which is behind the plan, says reducing collections from every fortnight could save more than £1.5m a year.

With local councils being asked to discuss the plans many of you have taken to Facebook to express your opinions, external.

Staff at Swindon's libraries will find out today if they're losing their jobs.

They've been called to a briefing at lunchtime to be told the outcome of a consultation aimed at saving £1.5m from the service's budget.

During the summer, Swindon Borough Council put forward plans to fund just four of the 15 current branches in the town.

But it's not just Swindon... as this graph shows, over the last six years libraries across the region are relying a lot more on volunteers rather than paid staff.

The Somerset explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is set to start climbing Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica today.

In July he pledged to climb the highest mountain on every continent between August 2016 and May 2017 to raise money for Marie Curie.

He's also just £2m short of achieving his other long-term goal of raising £20m for charity in his lifetime.  

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St Georges in Bristol, external says it needs your help to find the last bit of funding for a £5.4m extension to the main concert hall building. 

It has already raised 90% of the money through the Arts Council England, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Bristol City Council among others.

The new pavilion will include a space for workshops and events, and have improved disabled access.    

A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to raised the final £500,000, external.

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A nursery owner force-fed a child with special needs leaving her "extremely distressed", a tribunal has heard. 

Redroofs Nursery, which has branches in St George in Bristol and Warmley, South Gloucestershire, was temporarily closed by Ofsted after a member of staff complained. 

Directors Roger and Lesley Bates appealed but the suspension was upheld by the Care Standards Tribunal. The couple deny that any child in their care has been left at risk of harm.

The first of 2,500 new accommodation units for solders has been lifted into position on Salisbury Plain.

It's the next milestone in the project to prepare Wiltshire for 4,000 soldiers relocating to Wiltshire from bases in Germany by 2020.

The first of the new prefabricated units - which look like metal containers with a bedroom, bathroom, doors and windows - has been lifted by crane into position in Larkhill.

The old sorting office near Bristol Temple Meads station, that's been derelict for more than 18 years, is to become a second campus for Bristol University. 

It's unveiled the location today, after previously announcing a multi-million pound investment in a digital innovation hub and pioneering business centre.

Professor Hugh Brady, vice-chancellor and president of University of Bristol, said it should "future proof the university".

The site's expected to be open in time for start of the 2021 academic year.   

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Wiltshire Times: Man believed to be carrying a firearm reported in Lacock, external

Swindon Advertiser:Councillor taken to court over non-payment of council tax looks likely to be a Conservative, external

Somerset County Gazette: Dad's horror after rock smashes car window inches from two-year-old daughter's face, external

Yate and Sodbury Gazette: Yate mother returns from charity trek for dogs to learn her family's cat is missing, external

Bath Chronicle: Father of Henry Burke calls for action to prevent more lives being lost in Bath's River Avon , external

Bristol Post:Pensioner killed himself after 'inadequate checks' at Bristol hospital, external

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Hamilton House - an office block turned community hub in Stokes Croft in Bristol - is up for sale. 

It's listed as a community asset, which means the current tenant - Coexist - now has until May next year to make a successful bid. 

It's already had one offer of £3.5m turned down. The space is used by over 200 artists, businesses and community groups.

Of course, it's most well-known for being right next to a certain famous Banksy piece.... the one that got vandalised a few years back.

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The body - believed to be that of 19-year-old student Henry Burke - is due to be identified later. 

Henry Burke was last seen leaving Zero Zero nightclub in Bath on Thursday. 

A body thought to be his was recovered from the River Avon on Saturday.

Meanwhile, a petition calling for the installation of further safety barriers has gained more than 4,400 signatures. 

Bath and North East Somerset Council says the River Safety Group - which includes the police, fire service and other agencies - will be meet to review existing safety measures. 

A pro gamer from Cheltenham whose YouTube channel, external brings in millions of hits, has now been offered work in Los Angeles and South Korea. 

Ashley Mariee became a YouTube star posting videos of herself playing her favourite games - like Minecraft - online.

With her video views in the tens of millions and more than 650,000 followers, she'll be talking to companies in LA and Seoul next year. 

Meanwhile... here's her top five tips on being a Vlogger.

It's been revealed that a derelict "eye-sore" site near Temple Meads station will be the site of Bristol University's new multi-million pound campus.

Along with a "digital innovation hub" it will also house a "business school of the future".

Elected mayor Marvin Rees says he is glad the site is being transformed as it was "dragging Bristol down".

While Hugh Brady - the university's vice-chancellor - says the campus will be "Canary Wharf meets Copenhagen but with a Bristol twist".

A Gloucestershire Conservationsist, who is flying from Arctic Russia with migrating Bewick Swans, is hoping to cross the English Channel today.

Sacha Dench is making her epic 4,500 miles (7,000 km) journey in a paramotor in a bid to find out why the swans' numbers have fallen in the past two decades.

Mark Simpson, from the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust in Slimbridge, says it is "potentially the most dangerous bit of the flight".

"There's obviously nowhere to land safely if anything goes wrong on the crossing," he said.

"The swans - if they get a bit tired - can put down in the water but it's not really safe for Sasha to land with all that equipment on her."

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Staff at Swindon's libraries will be told today what their jobs and service will look like after large council spending cuts.

The borough council is looking for ways to save £1.5m - nearly 60% - of its libraries budget by 2020.

We've known since the start of the year that cuts are coming to Swindon's libraries - ever since then, council bosses have been developing the plan for how to actually make it happen. 

We already know the intention is the council will only continue to fund four of the 15 libraries in the town - and that it's trying to find a way to keep the others going without financial support.

After months of consultation, at midday today the libraries will shut for staff to be told the next step of the plan - and any inevitable job cuts. 

The details will be made public late this afternoon - with Swindon's Conservative administration due to vote on the plan next week.

It's 30 years to the day since the death of the Bristol-born Hollywood legend Cary Grant.

Born Archibald Alexander Leach in Horfield in 1904, he went on to become one of the most iconic actors of Hollywood's golden age, starring in films including Bringing Up Baby, North By Northwest and To Catch A Thief.

But he never forgot his roots, making several visits back to the city even after he was granted American citizenship.

There are plans to reduce waste collection in Somerset from fortnightly to three-weekly. 

The Somerset Waste Partnership says the idea will save £1.7m a year. 

If the new system is approved by local councils it could come into operation from autumn next year.