Free holiday for US terror heroes

American firefighters who helped deal with the terrorist attacks in New York last September are being given a free holiday in the west of England.

Staff at Bristol International Airport have raised £15,000 to provide the break for 13 firefighters and three police officers.

Firefighters at the airport will also present the group with a cheque for £46,000 for the families of emergency staff who were killed.

Organisers have also planned a welcome dinner and a golf challenge match.

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Peace hope as brothers move out

People on a Weston-super-Mare housing estate are hoping tensions in the neighbourhood will ease now two teenage brothers have moved out.

Ben White, 17, and his brother Robert, 15, were banned from the Bourneville Estate and other parts of the town when their Anti-social Behaviour Orders were extended.

North Somerset Council has now evicted their family from its home on the estate.

After a court hearing last month, the council said the boys had each been linked to nearly 100 offences of harassment, joyriding, intimidation and shoplifting.

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Devon man starts mule trek

A man from Ivybridge, in south Devon, has begun a four-month trek through France and Spain with a mule.

David Snelling has spent five years planning Operation Henry to raise money for charity.

But he had to cancel it twice, the first time two years ago he had a stroke.

Last year he had to abandon the trip because of foot-and-mouth disease.

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Shops bid to wipe out grafitti

A scheme to prevent graffiti artists from buying paint is about to begin in east Devon.

Staff in six shops in Exmouth will ask for personal details from anyone under 17 who tries to buy spray paint.

It follows an increase in paint being daubed and sprayed around the resort in the past six months.

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Wheelchair woman falls into river

A woman was left fighting for her life after plunging into a river in her wheelchair.

The 49-year-old is thought to have fallen from a towpath into the River Frome at Welshmill, Somerset, at 1140 BST on Tuesday.

Fire and ambulance crews pulled her from the water and she was taken by air ambulance to the Royal United Hospital in Bath.

Her condition was described as "life-threatening" by an Avon and Somerset Police spokesman, who said the incident was not being treated as suspicious.