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'Royal wedding' and 'cheap mural paint'

PA Media Harriet Sperling and Peter Phillips during day one of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse, Berkshire. She is wearing a white jacket with puffed sleeves and a straw hat which sits at an angle on her long, blonde hair. He is wearing a dark-coloured jacket, a light grey waistcoat, a pink shirt with a white collar and a light blue tie. PA Media
King Charles's nephew Peter Phillips is to tie the knot with NHS nurse Harriet Sperling in the Cotswolds this summer

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A Royal wedding is being planned in the Cotswolds this summer, according to Gloucestershire Live. King Charles's nephew Peter Phillips is to tie the knot with NHS nurse Harriet Sperling in a private ceremony in Kemble, near Cirencester, in June.

In Bristol, fines are "piling up for e-scooter riders", according to Bristol Live. Over the past five months, Bristol e-scooter riders have received more than 100 fines daily for incorrect parking.

E-scooter riders are also coming under fire in Cheltenham. According to Punchline, parking bays are having to be created in Gloucester and Cheltenham because Voi riders are so bad at parking them.

In Somerset, a £15,000 earth bund is being installed along Burnham‑On‑Sea's seafront to deter travellers from "setting up unauthorised encampments", according to Burnham-on-sea.com.

And Bristol Live has an exclusive about a city centre mural that has already "required repainting within a month" because the city council used "cheap mural paint".

Top five local stories for the BBC in the West

Something longer to read

A BBC feature about the sharp rise of ketamine use among young adults has an interview with a mother from Swindon who became addicted to the drug after her father died.

Ketamine, once seen as a niche club drug, is now one of the fastest‑growing substances being used by young adults.

The mother-of-one said she not only started using it "every day, straightaway" following her father's death but was hospitalised several times after experiencing excruciating abdominal pain known as "k cramps".

She said: "It's not worth your health, it's not worth losing your bladder for."

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