Headlines: Machete fight, missing Jack and dormice

Gloucestershire Live published the terrifying footage of a man wielding a machete during a "street fight" in Tredworth.

Senior reporter, Kim Horton said the video "highlights what is reportedly happening between gangs" in the city.

Four people involved in the fighting were armed, and one person was arrested as investigations by Gloucestershire Police continue after the incident on 13 September.

Jack O'Sullivan's mother will appear on the BBC's Crimewatch next week, Bristol Live reported.

Despite extensive searches there are still no answers regarding the whereabouts of the student, who went missing on 2 March.

Lisa Huckfield Coveney commented on Facebook: "This poor family must be going through hell; praying for his family and hoping he is found soon."

A series of accidents on motorways in the West dominated the headlines on Friday.

Bristol Live covered a five-vehicle crash on the M4 at the Almondsbury Interchange, while a person was seriously injured in a collision involving a car and a lorry near junction 15 (Swindon) in Wiltshire.

In both cases, the roads were re-opened, and the injured drivers were treated in hospital.

World Meningitis Day 2024 on 5 October focused attention on the disease in headlines across media outlets.

ITV West Country reported on the family of Bristol teenager, Ryan Bresnahan, who died from meningitis just weeks before his 16th birthday, urging other young people to get vaccinated.

Reporter Katherine Cenaj quoted his mother, Michelle Bresnahan who said: "I remember at the time thinking healthy young boys don’t get that, babies and toddlers get meningitis - not strapping lads."

Ryan's sister, Charlotte completed a walk of the South West Coastal Path on Saturday, to raise money for the charity A Life for a Cure, set up in his memory.

The listing for sale of Cheltenham Borough Council's Municipal Offices was covered by Gloucestershire Live.

Council leader Rowena Hay said that "appropriate redevelopment of the iconic building" could have social, economic and environmental benefits for Cheltenham and allow the town to "prosper".

On the council's Facebook page Mickey Riordan commented: "It's like selling off the Crown Jewels."

A story about colourful road markings causing confusion outside a school in Frome, was covered by Somerset Live.

The markings were installed by the town council with a £350,000 government grant, and the mass of colours and shapes are designed to slow drivers down.

Journalists, Paul James and Paul Greaves, reported parents' anger over the "dangerous" markings "that look like Twister".

"I think they are very confusing and dangerous. None of those shapes are in the Highway Code," said one parent.

And finally, the moving story of four orphaned hazel dormice touched the hearts of many readers.

Secret World in Somerset described it as "a very rare admission", after an ecologist found them while checking nest boxes.

Their dead mother was also found with puncture wounds - likely from being caught by a predator.

Staff at the centre said: "Sadly, the trauma the young dormice had experienced was too much for them to survive and they all passed away."