Anti-racism charity Sari (Stand Against Racism and Inequality) has set up a "brand new" race equality commission, to begin in the New Year.

Sari director Alex Raikes said: "We've just appointed 12 amazing commissioners who will take forward that work."

She said they would be "volunteering" and all had the "expertise to fight and strive to get race equality for our city across all the different agencies."

Yesterday, a Safer Bristol report into how Bijan Ebrahimi's case was handled found that the police and council were "institutionally racist".

A management company says the spikes protect residents' "expensive cars" from bird poo.

Is Swindon's biggest roundabout home to its smallest Christmas tree?

Someone appears to have placed a tiny tree in the centre of the town's famous landmark.

Image source, GWR

Train travel is expected to be disrupted over the Christmas period. Great Western Railway said it's due to engineering work on the new Crossrail project in London.

Dan Panes, from GWR, said: "Network Rail has got a significant amount of work to do to get the track ready for our brand new trains.

"There's always a balance to be struck here - do we say 'yes' to Network Rail taking up a piece of engineering work when it's going to disrupt customers?

"Or do we say 'no' and risk causing even more disruption in the long run? I think most customers realise it's worth the short term pain."

Paddington station will be closed for four days from Christmas Eve. Passengers should check services before they travel.

The equivalent of a small garden shed in London, but five times that in Bradford.

Being a football fan takes dedication - supporting your team through the highs and lows and braving the elements in the stands on match days.

But this Bristol City supporter from Weston-super-Mare takes some beating.

Margaret Dodds is 100 years old and has been watching the club play at Ashton Gate for decades.

Image source, PA

The cost of train fares will rise in the new year, a transport watchdog has warned.

Linda McCord from Transport Focus said: "The disruption over the Christmas period will be followed very quickly by passengers having to pay more for their fares.

"We know that passengers want value for money. So having been disrupted, to then find themselves going into work paying more - I'm sure passengers will find that very hard to swallow."

Image source, Anna Francis

Residents in Bristol who've added spikes to trees to deter pigeons have been criticised on social media.

People living in flats opposite the trees in Clifton said it was to prevent bird poo covering their cars.

Estate management company - Hillcrest - said they'd had a lot of complaints from flat owners at Bartlett Court about the mess roosting pigeons.

They said they'd looked at lots of options, including chopping down or netting trees, before deciding upon the spikes, due to a tree protection orders.

And had also previously tried decoy birds, hanging CDs and noise deterrents.

Image source, PA

Plans to increase the number of daily HGV deliveries to Hinkley Point C by 50% have been approved by councillors and highways officials.

EDF Energy asked to put up the number of journeys to 750 a day from January until September 2018.

In return, the company said it would spend more than £4m on mitigation measures.

Somerset County Council Labour group leader councillor Leigh Redman said he was "disgusted" by the decision.

• BBC Radio Bristol: Bristol's mayor Marvin Rees has apologised after the city council was found to be institutionally racist. He accepted the conclusion of a damning report into the treatment and death of Iranian refugee Bijan Ebrahimi in 2013.
• BBC Gloucestershire: Fly-tipping across Gloucestershire has gone up 25% over the past five years. And it's costing our councils more than £250,000 to clear it up.
• BBC Somerset: Unions have strongly criticised plans to transfer around 350 staff from Yeovil District Hospital into a new private company.
• BBC Wiltshire: An independent passenger watchdog says people from Wiltshire face a double- whammy of issues over the coming weeks on the railways.

There's been criticism on social media after photos emerged of trees in Bristol with anti-pigeon spikes installed along the branches.

The spikes - on Pembroke Road in Clifton - were installed by the management company of nearby flats to stop the birds making a mess of residents' cars.

Some social media users claim the spikes are inhumane but local residents say the spikes work well.

Here's Alex Osborne with today's forecast.

Rail passengers in the West are being warned of severe disruption to trains in and out of London this Christmas.

Paddington station will be completely closed for four days from Christmas Eve because of work for the capital's new Crossrail project.

A reduced service will instead run in and out of London Marylebone, whilst Southampton Central station is completely closed between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.

Passengers are advised to check before they travel.

Image source, PA

Image source, Getty Images

• Bristol Post: Outrage at anti-bird spikes fitted to Clifton trees, external to 'protect' expensive cars from bird poo
• Bath Chronicle:Bath is one of the safest cities, external in England and Wales for higher education study
• GloucestershireLive:Vomiting and diarrhoea bug Shigellosis is back, external - Here's what to do if you think you have it
• Swindon Advertiser: University of Wales comes to revamped Carriage Works , externalamid cross-party acclaim

Margaret Dodds is 100 years old and has been watching Bristol City play at Ashton Gate for decades.

There are fears the unregulated practice could spread infection and viruses such as HIV and hepatitis.

Image source, Airbus

An Airbus centre in Filton now has a new concrete floor after a massive 24-hour job which involved 240 lorry loads and 3,500 tonnes of concrete.

It was one of the biggest single pours of concrete in the UK in 2017.

Steve Raynes, Head of Laboratories and Test Centres, said: “When it’s completed, the new facility will enable Airbus to deliver the research, design, analysis and testing of the next generation of wings.”

The Airbus Wing Integration Centre (AWIC), which is more than 10,000 square metres in size - the equivalent of two football grounds and 26 Olympic swimming pools - will house aircraft wings so that engineers can run tests on them.

Image source, Airbus

Image source, Airbus

Image source, Google

A £2.5m project to redevelop Cheltenham's leisure centre is set to begin in the New Year.

Leisure at Cheltenham will get a new fitness studios, a toddler splash pad and specially designed disabled changing areas.

‘Pool pods’ will also be installed which will give people with mobility issues easier access to the main pool.

The council anticipate the work will be completed by late spring 2018.

Bristol's Mayor Marvin Rees says the council must step up and accept the results of a report into the death of Bijan Ebrahimi.

Mr Ebrahimi was beaten to death and set alight on a Bristol estate in July 2013.

Image source, Getty Images

Ashley Jensen has been left "devastated" after the sudden death of her husband Terence Beesley.

The 60-year-old died late last month at their home in Somerset. The information was only made public on Sunday.

Beesley, who had starred in Victoria, married Jensen in 2007 after meeting on the set of a play. They have an eight-year-old son together.

The Ugly Betty and Extras actress is currently starring in BBC drama Love, Lies and Records.