‘Estate goes bust’ and ‘Longleat lion dies’

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

Hestercombe House and Gardens, a historic estate near Taunton, has gone into administration, Somerset County Gazette reports.

A former Swindon police officer has been barred from the profession after he crashed a colleague’s personal car at a station and failed to report it, the Gazette & Herald reports.

And Bristol Live covered a story about a surprise party held for a woman who has spent years cleaning up her local park in Knowle.