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The first of four events attempting to bridge racial divides in Bristol will take place tonight.

Bristol Old Vic, Bristol Post newspaper and Ujima Radio joined forces after a 2017 report from the Runnymede Trust described Bristol as the most segregated core city in the UK, external.

The aim is to bring together communities with different experiences of segregation in the same room to devise a series of actions to present to the city council.

Post editor Mike Norton said: "No doubt some of the views expressed at the City Conversations will be uncomfortable to hear, but it’s the only way to move forward as a united city.”

The first City Conversation takes place today, external at 6.30pm at City Academy.

North Bristol NHS Trust say they've treated more than 100 surgical patients from Southmead Hospital at home, under a new care scheme started in January.

Research shows patients recover faster in a home environment and the hospital says it's also relieving the pressure on beds.

If you're just waking up you'll notice it's pretty chilly out there.

Wednesday morning will be cool but dry with rain creeping in later.

BBC weather forecaster says rain is on the horizon for tomorrow evening. Here's John Hammond:

A Labour councillor in Bristol has called for three fellow councillors to resign from a planning committee after a High Court judge ruled the council had acted "unlawfully" in granting a park special status.

Stoke Lodge playing fields were given Town and Village Green (TVG) status by the council in December 2016.

Cotham School - which had a 125-year lease to use the land - launched an appeal and won, with the judge saying councillors had “failed, erroneously and unlawfully" to analyse evidence presented to them.

Councillor Mike Langley, Labour’s lead on the Public Rights of Way and Greens committee, has now called on Conservative chair Peter Abraham, Green councillor Charlie Bolton and Lib Dem councillor Tim Kent to "resign from this council committee and for their parties to not put them forward ever again".

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Plans for a major new solar farm have been announced for land between Washford and Watchet.

The proposals put forward by Elgin Energy could cover 53 hectares including fields to the north west of the Tropiquaria.wildlife park

Some local residents say they haven't been properly informed of the plans and have raised concerns about the farm's location and impact on the local area.

Gloucestershire County Council says it has made "excellent progress" on repairing damaged roads.

Its "pothole gangs" have filled 18,000 potholes between 1st March and 30th April, with an average of 30 crews working on the county's roads every day.

A teenager, who police have been searching for, has been found.

There had been concerns for 16-year-old Rebecca Smith, from Gloucester, since since early this morning.

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A stained glass window marking the role of female workers at a former RAF airfield has been dedicated at a ceremony at a church near the site.

About 100 members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) lived in Hullavington, Wiltshire and served at its RAF base during World War Two.

The stained glass window was designed by local artist, Peter Berry and has been installed at St. Giles Church.

During the war, RAF Hullavington was home to many varied aircraft such as Airspeed Oxfords, Hawker Harts, Avro Ansons and Audaxes.

The £5,000 cost of the window was raised through charitable donations.

The Highways Agency says it has cleared the M4 following an earlier collision between junctions 18 and 19.

Traffic is now flowing freely.

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Councillors in Bath have succeeded in getting a cabinet decision reviewed on how school places in the city will be allocated.

The cabinet's policy has been branded "completely unfair" by some councillors who say parents from poorer areas of the city are being "penalised".

Liberal Democrats said too many children were being offered school places on the opposite side of the city from their homes.

The meeting, known as a call-in, will take place on 15 May at 5pm.

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A woman whose Army sergeant husband is accused of sabotaging her parachute has told a jury that she had no concerns about her husband being left alone with it, prior to her near-fatal fall.

Victoria Cilliers almost died after her main and reserve parachutes failed during a 4,000ft jump in April, 2015.

Emile Cilliers, 38, of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps, is accused of her attempted murder, by sabotaging the chutes and also tampering with a gas valve at the family home in Wiltshire.

The trial, at Winchester Crown Court, has heard that Mrs Cilliers first told officers that her husband had taken her parachute to the toilet at Netheravon for a "couple of minutes".

In a second interview she told police that he had been with the equipment for "five to 10 minutes" - a time-scale she estimated would be enough to tamper with it.

But Mrs Cilliers, 42, told the court that the second account was not accurate because she had been "humiliated" when police had informed her, in front of her father, that her husband had been having an affair and he had "no remorse".

When asked by defence counsel, Elizabeth Marsh QC, why she had given the second account, Mrs Cilliers said: "I was hurt, I was angry, I had been humiliated, I painted the worst picture."

Mrs Cilliers said she had no concerns at all about Mr Cilliers being left alone with the equipment before or after her fall.

Cilliers denies two charges of attempted murder and one of criminal damage. The trial continues.

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The parents of the Gloucestershire student Joanna Parrish, who was murdered in France in 1990, say they are relieved they may finally get justice for their daughter.

Roger Parrish and Pauline Murrell have just returned from meeting the lead investigator in Paris.

Earlier this year the serial killer, Michel Fourniret, confessed that he was responsible for Joanna's death.

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Gloucestershire's NHS Foundation Trust saw its deficit almost double in a year.

Its deficit increased to £32m at the beginning of April 2018 - up from £18m at the end of March 2017.

A new computer programme has been blamed for £10m of the shortfall: TrakCare patient record system - adopted in 2016 - failed to record, capture and account all of the activities it needed to.

It meant the trust could not recover as much money as it thought it would.

Health bosses have pledged that vital hospital services will not be cut despite the financial losses.

Liberal Democrat councillor, Iain Dobie, who questioned Ms Lee on the shortfall at a council meeting, said: "A doubling of the hospitals' trust deficit to £30m is clearly of public concern. The NHS should push the supplier [of the computer system] for a refund and lessons must be learned."

Bristol Rovers defenders James Clarke and Alfie Kilgour sign new contracts at the Memorial Stadium.

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Anyone who has seen a vulnerable 16-year-old girl since 8.30 this morning is asked to contact police.

Rebecca Smith was last seen in the Henry Street area of Gloucester.

She is described as white, 5ft 6ins tall, of slim build with shoulder length brown hair, dyed purple and was wearing a navy blue school uniform.

Rebecca has links to Gloucester and Coleford and detectives are making inquiries in both areas.

Police in Bristol are looking for two men following the theft of brass fittings from dry risers in 11 tower blocks across the city.

Dry risers are used to supply water to the fire service on different floors of the blocks in case of a fire.

The photos were taken at Oak House on 22 April, Willow House on 24 April and Gilton House on 28 April.

Councillor Paul Smith from Bristol City Council said: "These thieves are putting people’s lives at risk for the sake of small amounts of money."

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Police have released all sites linked to the Skripal poisoning case in Salisbury for decontamination, apart from the former spy's house, Cabinet ministers have been told.

The nerve agent attack has been described as "one of the largest and most complex counter-terrorism investigations the UK has ever seen".

Ministers praised the "resilience" of Salisbury residents in the face of disruption, which they blamed on "Russia's reckless actions".

But Moscow has repeatedly denied responsibility for the attack on Mr Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.