'Fading heart' and 'four men wanted in museum heist'

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An Indian restaurant in Bristol has appealed to customers to pay in cash as the owners have "fallen into serious debt". Spice Bazaar said large delivery platforms such as Just Eat and Deliveroo have "taken a toll" on their business.

Wiltshire Live reported on the changes to bin collections in the county after the council announced that rubbish would only be collected every three weeks.

Gloucester City Council cabinet member for resources, Declan Wilson, has declared that the council may have effectively "gone bust" around 18 months ago without anyone realising at the time. He warned at a meeting on Wednesday that the authority is now "facing the biggest crisis in its history".

Bath & North East Somerset Council have announced that an e-bike and e-scooter trial in Bath now covers Southdown, Odd Down and Combe Down. New virtual parking locations have been set up in 30 areas and 50 extra vehicles have been added.

Bristol Live reported on a piece of artwork in the city centre, which it says has "slipped back into disrepair", after being unveiled in September. The £365,000 floor painting has already required retouching work since it was unveiled, causing it to be branded "a hopeless case" by readers.

Bristol 24/7 has a feature on the city's culture and asks whether Bristol's artistic heritage is being "swept away faster than the small boat that was recently carried down the River Avon on the tide".

More than 1,000 people have signed an open letter calling on council leader Tony Dyer to do more to protect independent culture, saying, "culture is not a luxury - it's the lifeblood of Bristol".

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