An American investor's takeover of League Two club Yeovil Town is imminent, BBC Somerset understands.

Bristol city poet Vanessa Kisuule has written a eulogy to an eyesore building that is due to be demolished to make way for a £300m university campus. The derelict former Royal Mail sorting office was described by former Prime Minster David Cameron as looking like an "entrance to a war zone". Ms Kisuule's work - Brick Me - was inspired by graffiti in the building and history of the site. The new campus is expected to open at the start of the 2021/22 academic year. Ms Kisuule became the city's second official poet following on from Miles Chambers in May. She was commissioned to create the new work by the University of Bristol as one of its artists in residence and a former student. She was inspired by the site's past as a cholera burial ground, cattle market and colour works factory as well being the sorting office and home to illicit raves after Royal Mail moved its operation to Filton in 1997. The new University of Bristol Temple Quarter Campus will house a digital innovation centre, a business school and student residential village.

A national clampdown on drugs gangs has seen officers searching homes in the West thought to be subject to "cuckooing".

Cuckooing is the term used for when drug dealers use violence, exploitation and intimidation to take over the home of a vulnerable person in order to use it as a base for drug dealing.

County lines refers to the gangs and organised criminal networks involved in exporting illegal drugs into one or more importing areas in the UK, using dedicated mobile phone lines or another form of ‘deal line’.

Det Ch Insp Kerry Paterson, Avon and Somerset Police's lead for county lines, said: “We all know drugs have a detrimental impact on our communities, with anti-social behaviour and other crimes such as theft and burglary committed by users looking to fund their habits.

“But county lines gangs also pose a significant threat to users who are especially susceptible to exploitation.

"Many do not view themselves as victims and are often manipulated into carrying out crimes or subjected to violence.

“In the past week, we have been able to speak face to face with more than a hundred people who may not have otherwise proactively sought help, signposting them to support agencies and giving advice on how to keep themselves safe.

“We have also caused significant disruption to the gangs supplying the county lines in our force area, taking drugs and weapons off our streets in the process."

Gloucester City hope to redevelop Meadow Park, which was devastated by floods in 2007.

People who go missing are often fleeing crime, abuse or at an increased risk of being a victim of crime, even if they do go missing repeatedly, the charity Missing People UK says.

"There is so much crime affecting the missing population - it's not an either/or," said Karen Robinson from the charity.

"We know the police force is struggling with cuts to their budgets or lack of investment but we feel very strongly that missing people need to remain high on the police agenda and that needs to be sufficiently resourced.

"We know that seven out of ten children who have been sexually exploited have been missing and with Operation Bullfinch in Oxford many of the girls who were exploited had had repeated missing episodes.

"Every 90 seconds, someone goes missing in the UK.

"Focussed, well-resourced policing teams to assess and respond to these risks are vital because when someone goes missing it is a sign that something is very wrong.

"It's vital that police have adequate resources to respond and investigate when someone disappears."

She said every disappearance need to be appropriately risk-assessed and Missing People worked closely to assist forces at every stage of the inquiry.

Cheltenham Town agree a deal to bring Exeter City's Jordan Tillson in on loan until the end of the season.

Avon and Somerset Police Federation - which represents rank-and-file officers up to the rank of chief inspector - say it supports the "brave decisions" made by senior officers in the force over its handling of missing persons.

The comments come after the force said it would only search for a "low risk" missing person after they've been gone 36 hours.

Insp Andy Roebuck, who is the chairman of the branch, said with "700 less cops" the force "simply can't maintain the levels of investigation"

"Officers are at breaking point, we have to take some of the work away," he said.

He said the decision to search would be risk-assessed against national criteria - but he added many missing people came back of their own accord

In real terms searching for missing people in Avon and Somerset costs the force the full-time cost of a police officer every day of the year.

Some 75% of missing people will be found within 24 hours and of that 75% of those will turn up without the police finding them. Often these are adults in crisis or children in care.

Det Supt Richard Kelvey from the force said: "If we didn't deal with missing people, we would probably have 300 more people on the ground.

"During the last 12 months we have piloted a number of initiatives where we are looking at a different way of managing certain categories.

"So adults who are missing who are low risk we are looking at whether or not we should deploy police officers to those investigations or could we reassure that family member who reports them to us and say if you think risk has changed and you know something different, call us, if not we will record your report and call us in 12 hours.

"Then if they're not back in 12 hours we will reconsider - we will accelerate our search if intelligence changes.

"High risk missing people, we throw everything at it, we really do.

"We are at a point where we have to say to families, call us in 12 hours' time, otherwise high risk cases, we won't get to them because we are overwhelmed by volume elsewhere."

Ryan Seager returns to his hometown club Yeovil on a free transfer from Southampton.

Police stopped a driver in Bath Road, Bristol, on Monday afternoon.

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Bristol Rovers bring in Reading defender Gabriel Osho on loan for the remainder of the season.

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Cycling campaigners want to build a car-free "leisure loop" around the Downs in Bristol which could see part of the road closed on Sundays.

The team behind Cycling Sunday says a new wider pathway would benefit runners and walkers as well as helping to tackle erosion.

The plans also suggest Circular Road which runs along the cliff edge could be made one-way or even closed to traffic.

The estimated cost of the project is close to £500,000.

There also plans to hire bicycles and to open a cliff top cafe.

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Crimes recorded - 139

Custody records - 57

Missing people - 24

Domestic violence cases - 11

Burglary - 22

Robbery - 2

Theft from motor vehicle - 4

Assault on constable - 1

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Members of the University and College Union at New College Swindon have called off planned strike action in their fight over pay after an eleventh hour breakthrough in talks with the college.

The union said it was pleased with the talks and a deal that would open up the college’s pay structure and "deliver significant pay rises" for staff.

College staff initially walked out for two days in November.

A three-day walkout planned for 20 March remains on and will take place if sufficient progress cannot be made in resolving the outstanding issues.

In the recent ballot, more than three-quarters (78%) of UCU members at New College Swindon who voted, backed the strike action.

UCU members are still walking out at Bath College and Bridgwater and Taunton College as part of the campaign for fair pay.

The remains of Whitefriars monastery are believed to lie beneath an old bus station site in Gloucester.

The Bristol-based anti-racism pioneer Roy Hackett reveals the extraordinary level of racism he faced when he first arrived in the UK in the early 1950s.