'Winter solstice' and 'Strictly winner'

Here's our daily pick of stories from across local websites in the West of England, and interesting content from social media.

An Evri driver has been sacked after seven of a pensioner's parcels went missing, says the Salisbury Journal.

Berrow Animal Farm Adventure Park is reopening temporarily after a fire last month, says Burnham-on-Sea.com

The Swindon Advertiser covered frustrated Christmas shoppers stuck in long queues at Tesco.

The University of Gloucestershire has celebrated Strictly Come Dancing winner Karen Carney who studied sports psychology there in 2013 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2023.

These pictures taken by Great Western Air Ambulance of mist under the Severn Bridge have had a lot of love on Facebook.

The charity that runs the free garden at Number 4 The Circus is now defunct, according to this post, with Bath locals urged to 'enjoy it while you can'.

A post about the family of nine-year-old Aria Thorpe going out to the beach to remember her was posted on a Weston Facebook group.

A 56-year-old Bristol woman who found out her dad was not her biological father via a cheap DNA test – which she was doing to see if she could get an Irish passport – has been posted on The Telegraph's Insta.

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