A Somerset maker of specialist inflatable boats that were used in the London Olympics is to be liquidated with the loss of 18 jobs, externalaccording to Somerset Live. Ribcraft was founded in Yeovil in 1993 and the company’s rigid inflatable boats (RIBS) are also used by the police, the military and emergency response teams across the world.
Bristol Live reported on a car which crashed into a house in Lockleaze, external and a police officer being injured by another car which crashed into multiple emergency vehicles.
The popular landmark Browne’s Folly – known locally as The Pepperpot – in Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire, has been sealed shut by the owners due to its decline, external and “persistent vandalism”. Local volunteers have started a project to restore the Grade-II listed Victorian tower.
The owner of the Friends Kitchen in Chipping Sodbury has thanked people for the support she was given, external after she posted a photograph of her empty restaurant on a Saturday night. Shamsi Kabbara said she had been “humbled by the love” she had received.
And an adorable little mouse created some oohs and aahs amongst staff as it bathed in an upside down bottle top, external at the Vale Wildlife Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre in Gloucestershire.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
