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25 May 2012 Last updated at 16:53 ET

MP in 'kill oaf' Twitter outburstLabour MP Kerry McCarthy

Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy says on Twitter an annoying rail passenger should be killed "before he could breed" - comments she later insists were "flippant".

A 300-year-old Chinese bamboo brushpotCharity shop pot makes £360,000

An old carved wooden pot donated to one of the shops of a Bristol-based charity is sold for £360,000.

The two owlets which had been found in a car bootTwo baby owls found in car boot

Two baby owls found by police in a car boot in Bristol are thought to have been taken from the wild.

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