'Drug-user turns life around' and 'school standoff'

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News image — Jeremy Palmer turned his life around, Somerset Live reports

Phoebe Hobbs Jeremy Palmer sitting in a wing-backed black-and-white chequered chair in a plain room with beige walls and a brown carpet. He is smiling and wearing a lanyard and a grey tracksuit. — Jeremy Palmer turned his life around, Somerset Live reports

Here is our weekly roundup of stories from across local websites in the West of England.

What have been the big stories in the West this week?

Somerset Live featured the inspirational story of a man who abused drugs from the age of nine and managed to turn his life around. He now runs three supported living sites and is working on a memoir.

Bristol Live showed video footage of what it said was police attending a "hostile standoff" at Stoke Lodge playing fields. The fields have been the subject of a long-running legal campaign over public access.

A deadline being set for the sale of Gloucestershire Airport performed well for Gloucestershire Live this week. The site reports council bosses "prudently" considered a plan B due to "speculation that the deal may be in trouble".

The owner of a "popular and much-loved" cake business in Swindon announced she was taking a break after her "absolute hardest year", according to the Swindon Advertiser. GlamoRose Cakes was started 14 years ago, but Jessie Yeoell said things did not turn out "the way she had hoped".

Channel 4's First Dates show is looking for new contestants - with rumours the series will continue using the Botanist in Bath.