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| In brief... Posters seek clues to death Detectives in Gloucester are placing posters round the city in their investigation into a man who died in suspicious circumstances, two days after claiming he saw a fatal stabbing. Stephen Long told police he was injured in the attack on 19 December. Two days later, he was dead. The victim of the stabbing, Harold Costello, 43, died on New Year's Eve. A 20-year-old man is in custody in connection with the 19 December attack. ==================================== Builders return to African village Five Somerset builders are returning to a Kenyan village, where they built a school, to start work on a medical centre. Villagers were so pleased with the school they made the men elders of their tribe. The builders from Hutton, near Weston-super-Mare, spent two weeks building a classroom in Dabasco, East Africa, in 1999. It would have taken the villagers six years to raise enough money for the project. ==================================== Experts try to save dovecote Historic building experts in Wiltshire are helping to save a dovecot from collapse. The grade 2 listed building was damaged during a fire at the weekend at the Methuen Arms Hotel in Corsham. The roof of the dovecote, at the back of the hotel, is unstable. Scaffolding has been put up to allow a close inspection. ==================================== Westland lands £20m deal The helicopter company, Westland, based in Yeovil has won a £20m government contract to research a new version of its Lynx helicopter. The Ministry of Defence says the Future Lynx could be the replacement for the army's battlefield helicopters, with new engines and an improved airframe. The work will run for a year and a half and could lead to a £1bn deal in two years' time. The contract comes too late to reverse the decision to cut 950 jobs, announced this month, but it could eventually help secure up to 500 other jobs. ==================================== Bobsleigh aces train in Bath The UK's first bobsleigh training run has been established at Bath, Somerset. The track is 125 metres long and is a faithful replica of the Olympic run at Salt Lake City in the United States. It has already been used to train Bath athlete Alex Coomber, seen as the UK's best hope for a medal at the winter games next month. The run was opened on Thursday by Robin Dixon, who won a bobsleigh gold medal for Britain in 1964. ==================================== Lottery money goes to furnace A disused blast furnace which once melted iron ore in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, is to be saved and protected with National Lottery money. The Dean Heritage Museum in the Forest has been promised £80,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It wants to save the furnace as part of its efforts to mark the rich industrial heritage of the area. The museum recently won a lottery grant to record memories of traditional ways of life in the Forest. 1st February 2002 |
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