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School children swim Channel
Six 12-year-olds from the Bristol area swim the English Channel, setting what they say is a...
Police hunt for escaped prisoner
Police search for a 39-year-old man who has absconded from Leyhill Open Prison in South Gloucestershire.
Speeding drink-driver took drug
A speeding driver who had been drinking and taking cocaine crashed into a lorry near Bristol,...
School lottery 'failed in aim'
England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools...
Bath City v Barrow
Team news ahead of Saturday's Blue Square Bet Premier match.
A history of BBC Bristol
Find out about BBC Bristol's beginnings, the war years and how some of the best-known radio...
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