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Headlines: Dinosaur theft and concert preparations

BBC The Royal Crescent in Bath as seen from the street. It is a grand sweeping row of terraced houses with a park and railings in frontBBC
Part of these railings are to be removed to allow concert equipment into the Royal Crescent in Bath

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

Our pick of local website stories

Two large animatronic dinosaurs from a Bristol company have been stolen from a car park in Essex, reports ITV News West Country. Raptors World had named the costumes Rexy and Yoshi and said it has been hit "incredibly hard" by the theft.

Parts of the railings at the world famous Royal Crescent in Bath have been removed in preparation for an upcoming Robbie Williams concert, according to Somerset Live.

Burnham-on-sea.com reported on local darts star Gary Anderson winning the European Darts Grand Prix for the second year in a row over the weekend

And the Swindon Advertiser was at the scene of a popular rubber duck race in Wroughton, which saw hundreds of plastic ducks "race" down the River Ray.

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Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy posted a picture on Facebook to mark 20 years since she was first elected as MP, with a newspaper clipping from 2005.

Historic England says a 16th Century timber-framed merchant's house in Gloucester has been restored, having been on their At Risk register since 2012.

A call has gone out for prospective business owners to run the Old Town Quarry cafe in Weston-super-Mare. Councillor Mike Bell said the site is due to reopen in summer 2025.

And on Reddit, a poster has noted there are thousands of signatures for a campaign to get the Whitchurch Athletics Track in Bristol regenerated.

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