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Headlines: Hospital worker attacks and 950 new homes

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Body worn cameras and de-escalation training has been rolled out at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, according to reports

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Gloucestershire Live reports that hospital workers have been attacked by patients almost 3,300 times over the last three years, while there have been several hundred incidents of staff-on-staff violence in Gloucestershire.

A new 950-home neighbourhood is planned on the edge of Bristol in South Gloucestershire, Bristol Live reports.

And questions are being asked about the future of Swindon's £50m shopping centre Regent Circus as another business has left the site, the Swindon Advertiser reports.

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