Famara Diedhiou scores the only goal as Bristol City become the first side to win a league game at Birmingham City since March.

Bristol suffer a second defeat in three European Challenge Cup games as they are beaten by La Rochelle at Ashton Gate.

Kaiyne Woolery scores a late Swindon Town winner to deny Newport County a point at the County Ground.

Gwenda Gage, who has an oxygen tank to help her breathe, cares for her brain-injured son.

Two teenagers have been charged with terror offences after being arrested on Thursday.

An 18-year-old man from Portsmouth has been charged with eight offences and a 17-year-old boy from London has been charged with five offences.

The pair have been bailed to appear before Westminster Magistrates on Wednesday.

A 21-year-old man from Bath, who was also arrested, has been released on bail pending further inquiries.

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Keiran Southern

England's creative industries have been handed a £20m boost.

The government package, which will help sectors including fashion, broadcast and video games, is designed to support an industry that contributes more than £100bn to the UK economy, Minister for the Creative Industries Margot James said.

The deal includes £4m being pumped into the creative industries of Bristol, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands, while a £14m Creative Careers Programme will see leading industry figures working with schools and college to improve access to job opportunities.

Organisers hope to reach more than 160,000 students by 2020.

Another £2m will go towards the Get it Right campaign, which seeks to educate consumers on copyright infringement.

And £200,000 will be spent on the Digital Schoolhouse programme, which is delivered by games trade body Ukie and PlayStation. It aims to inspire the next generation of game creators and could be in place in 50 schools by September next year.

The cash injection follows the publication of new figures which reveal the value of the creative industries to the UK is up from £94.8bn in 2016 to £101.5bn, growing at nearly twice the rate of the economy since 2010.

Helm Construction did not get paid for contracts which caused cash flow problems, administrators say.

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Neither Ben Stokes nor Alex Hales will miss any further England matches as a result of their part in a fight outside a Bristol nightclub in September 2017.

Both men faced England and Wales Cricket Board charges over that incident and social media posts, but the subsequent bans were adjudged to be either suspended or already served.

Stokes, who was cleared of affray in August, has been fined a total of £30,000 and batsman Hales £17,500, £10,000 of which is suspended for 12 months from now.

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A long-standing battle over rights to a green space in north Bristol has taken another twist.

Campaigners have urged Bristol City Council to immediately halt plans, proposed by Cotham School, to install a perimeter fence at Stoke Lodge playing fields.

The school, which leases the land from the council, said it is to start work on the controversial fence after years of legal wrangling.

Cotham School says the fence is required to keep its students safe.

Longleat Safari Park is closing its penguin attraction to prevent any future outbreak of avian malaria.

Some 25 birds died of the disease last September and staff, many who had hand-reared them, were devastated.

Avain malaria can't infect humans but keepers say it remains a potential problem for the penguins..

The engine failed when it had "fuel starvation" causing a crash that killed the pilot, an inquest hears.

RMT union drivers and guards on South Western Railway are to walk out on 22 December.

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Gloucestershire University's research into those eight-legged creatures, immortalised in Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings (remember Aragog and Shelob?), but thankfully not as big, has made it to to the UK's Best Breakthroughs List.

The award has been given by the campaign Made at Uni , externalwhich aims to show how university research impacts and helps people's everyday lives.

This research led by Dr Adam Hart involved buliding an app to collate data from the general public on 'spider season' when the tend to come into people's homes up and down the country.

His research found that 80% of spiders were males in search of a mate, and the peak season was mid-September with the most common sighting made at around 7.30 in the evenings.

The driver of the 1,000mph supersonic vehicle says the car is available for the cost of a Ferrari.

The accident and emergency department at Weston General was closed overnight during the summer of 2017 amid concerns over staffing levels,

Although the hospital said its A&E would go back to a 24/7 operation many people living locally had voiced their concerns it would become permanent.

Health bosses have now come up with five potential options for the department.

They are:

• The department returns to 24/7 operation
• Stay part time as at present
• More GPs at the hospital and the A&E would deal with less serious cases than it does now, and remain closed
• To run as an emergency medical centre only open during the day
• Urgent medical centre dealing with even less serious cases

For options four or five, care would be GP-led.

Kim Fawcett is taking the school to the High Court after it said there were "no signs" she was being abused.

A two-day England and Wales Cricket Board (EWB) disciplinary hearing for cricketers Ben Stokes and Alex Hales is due to be completed today.

Ben Stokes and Alex Hales are facing the disciplinary hearing after being charged with bringing the game into disrepute by the EWB.

It follows an incident outside a Bristol nightclub in September 2017: England and Durham all-rounder Stokes was charged with affray - and cleared by a jury - after assaulting two men outside a Bristol nightclub last year.

Administrators have confirmed that the Bloodhound Project - which was attempting to break the land-speed record - will go into liquidation.

Andrew Sheridan and Geoff Rowley - the joint administrators of Bloodhound Programme Ltd, the company behind the project, said in a statement released to the BBC: "we regret to announce that efforts to secure an investor to take the project forward have not come to fruition.

“Since the company entered into administration we have worked tirelessly with the Directors to identify a suitable individual or organisation who could take the project forward.

“Despite overwhelming public support, and engagement with a wide range of potential and credible investors, it has not been possible to secure a purchaser for the business and assets.

“We will now work with key stakeholders to return the third-party equipment and then sell the remaining assets of the company to maximise the return for creditors.”

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Tom Symonds
Home Affairs Correspondent

A paedophile has been ordered to pay more than £100,000 to five men in the Philippines after a judge decided he abused them as children in the 1980s.

Slade, 77, openly ran a helpline for child sex abusers from his parents' home in suburban Bristol.

Although he was jailed for 24 years in 2016, for the child abuse and rape of five British teenagers, he was never convicted of the sexual exploitation of the five Filipino men. They brought a separate case against him.

Slade's lawyer says it is the first case where foreign victims have successfully claimed compensation against a British abuser, despite a failed attempt to prosecute him abroad.

The Filipino victims lived in poverty and the High Court was told Slade groomed them with money and chocolate after buying a house near a school in 1985.

Their lawyer Alan Collins said “this landmark case is unprecedented for a High Court in London, showing how the legal system in England and Wales delivers justice for victims of sexual abuse whether they live in England or overseas.”

Rail passengers travelling over the festive period are set to be hit by the latest RMT Union strike in its long-running battle with South Western Railway.

Workers are set to walk out on Saturday 22 December in a long-running dispute over the role of train guards.