Teenage seam bowler Ben Charlesworth signs a three-year professional contract with Gloucestershire.

One person became trapped in a crash in Bath involving two cars, a lorry and a van.

Avon Fire and Rescue said two people were taken to hospital as a result of the crash on Gloucester Road.

There was a fuel spillage at the scene and there have been major traffic delays in the area.

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Schools in Gloucestershire could be fined £5,000 if they exclude pupils in the future.

Gloucestershire County Council is looking at bringing in the cash penalty to try to reduce the number of exclusions.

Figures show permanent exclusions in the county are above the national average and the highest in the west.

The council is suggesting schools which accept excluded children could be paid.

Gloucestershire County Council will make a decision in December after reviewing feedback from a consultation.

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The name of the second suspect in the Salisbury case is Alexander Mishkin, the BBC understands.

The Bellingcat investigative website says the man who travelled under the alias Alexander Petrov is in reality a military doctor working for Russian intelligence, the GRU.

Last month, Bellingcat named the first suspect as Anatoliy Chepiga, a claim rejected by Russia.

More details about how it uncovered the identity will be released on Tuesday.

Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in March.

The British open-source website said it had identified the suspect using testimonies from people the suspect knew , externaland a scanned copy of his passport.

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Meet the medieval queen from suburban Swindon.

Gwen Griffiths is a nurse during the week but transforms into 15th century royalty at the weekends.

BBC Inside Out (West) spent a weekend with her during the Tewkesbury Medieval Festival - one of the highlights of every re-enactors' calendar.

Amid boardroom chats about Novichok and comments about rubber suits, Salisbury FC are helping a city recover from an international scandal.

Russia is behind the attempted murder of an ex-spy and his daughter in Salisbury, the PM believes.

Dan Thomas charted every stage of his illness on YouTube up until his death.

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Police want to speak with two men in connection with an armed robbery in Bristol.

Officers said men armed with hammers carried out the attack on a shop in East Street, Bedminster at about 15:15 BST on Friday.

Ryan Skelhorne (pictured top) is described as white, about 5ft 10ins tall, of medium build with dark hair.

Carl Picken (pictured below) is also white, similar height and of heavy build with brown hair.

Police said neither man should be approached and asked members of the public to call 999 immediately if they saw either man.

A 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy were arrested at about 18:30 BST the same day in Alfred Street and have been released under investigation.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact the police on 101.

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Eleanor Wilson denies sexual activity with a child under 18 while in a position of trust.

Tributes are paid to Celia Marsh who died after eating a "super-veg rainbow flatbread".

Musicians all around the world played the solo to raise £100,000 for Stephen Sykes' cancer treatment.

The engineer was checking a faulty fan when he was injured at the furniture giant's Bristol store.

The coastguard said it was "shocking" how long plastic could "survive" in the sea.

Bristol Women's Voice wanted to "shine a light" on a centenary of black women's suffrage.

Burglars ram-raided a shop in Bristol in a Vauxhall Astra in the early hours of Monday.

Police said there were a number of men that smashed into the Go Outdoors shop in Tramway Road, Brislington, shortly after 02:20 BST.

A member of the public called police shortly afterwards and reported seeing a number of men get out of a similar a car on a nearby road in Knowle and enter an address.

Officers went to the address in Knowle and arrested four men aged 20, 28, 32 and 37 on suspicion of burglary.

Acting Det Sgt Emily Welch said: “We couldn’t do our job without information from the public and I want to thank the person who called us last night to report the suspicious activity they had seen."

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Bristol City Women boss Tanya Oxtoby insists her WSL side will only get better after landing September award.

The jury has gone out in the case of a teacher accused of having sex with a pupil.

Eleanor Wilson is accused of having sex with the boy on a plane flying home from a school trip in 2015.

Ms Wilson, 29, of Dursley, Gloucestershire, denies four counts of sexual activity with a child under 18 while in a position of trust.

The trial at Bristol Crown Court started on 01 October.

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Two Gloucestershire councils are among 10 authorities in England that shrank the largest amounts of green-belt land last year, according to new Government figures.

Cheltenham Borough Council lost a third of its green-belt land in the last year, while Tewkesbury Borough Council lost 7% of its protected land, statistics from the ministry of housing showed.

The data, released by National Statistics, external, revealed that plans adopted in Cheltenham have shrunk the green belt from 820 hectares of land in March 2017 to just 550 in March this year.

Before that, the green belt in Cheltenham had stayed the same size as it had been since at least March 2010, when these figures began.

The amount of protected land in Tewkesbury fell from 6,570 hectares in 2017 to 6,120 this year.

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