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The UK's only black female history professor
Dr Olivette Otele is the first black woman to be made a professor of history in the UK at Bath Spa University, and she's on this year's BBC 100 Women list.
- 19 November 2018
- From the section UK
Hamster freed from pipe on tiny ladder
The RSPCA said it devised the ladder plan after several attempts to rescue the hamster failed.
- 19 November 2018
- From the section Somerset
Live BBC local live: West of England
The latest news, sport, travel and weather for the West of England.
- From the section Bristol
Christmas markets hit by rail strikes
- 17 November 2018
- From the section England
'Mindless' vandals destroy scout hut
- 17 November 2018
- From the section Somerset
Plaque remembers village rail crashes
- 17 November 2018
- From the section Somerset
Concrete castle given £600k revamp
- 16 November 2018
- From the section Somerset
'Dangerously underweight' seal rescued
- 16 November 2018
- From the section Dorset
Delayed town revamp 'has wasted £10m'
- 15 November 2018
- From the section Somerset
Bats delay swimming pool plans in Chard
- 16 November 2018
Stormzy to headline Glastonbury 2019
- 15 November 2018
- From the section Entertainment & Arts
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