Queen guitarist Brian May has spoken out against a planned cull of badgers in the West Country.
Plans to extend a solar farm in Somerset have been approved, making it the largest of its kind in the West Country.
Set in a small-town community in the West Country, it centres on the unexpected death of Barry Fairbrother, which shocks the local villagers.
Set in a small town in the West Country where a local election divides the apparently cosy community, Rowling's new book has also divided critics.
And there are some signs that the traditional strategies that have stood them in such good stead in the West Country are now wearing thin.
"Just this week we have been hearing that all caravan parks in the West Country are on flood alert, and this simply isn't the case, " she said.
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However, with the Badminton Horse Trials taking place in the West Country and a music festival in Bristol, motoring organisations were warning of heavy congestion on the M4.
But farmers in the West Country in particular, want more direct action and they have been upset that Mr Gill has not manned their barricades against French imports.
Among the millions of names and numbers online are prime minister Harold McMillan at his cottage in Chelwood Gate, composer Edward Elgar at his estate in Warwickshire and writer Evelyn Waugh at the home in the West Country where he wrote Brideshead Revisited.
The Rough Sleeping England 2011 Report has also shown that the Taunton Deane area, which had 12 rough sleepers in 2010, now has the highest number of rough sleepers in the West Country, compared to four people in Bath and North East Somerset, and eight in Bristol.
Maroua, Cameroon (CNN) -- Cameroon authorities have found six more bodies in flood waters, bringing the number killed to as high as 40 in the wake of tropical downpours and the breaching of a dam in the west African country.
In August, Burma set up a commission to investigate the violence between Buddhists and Muslims in the west of the country.
The bulk of the country's freshwater dolphin population live in the south-west of the country, especially in the rivers and waterways of the Sunderbans mangrove forest.
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Protected by uninhabited forests to the north, the Rockies in the west and arid country in the south, authorities set up a 323-mile long, 18-mile wide buffer zone along the other place rats might enter, Alberta's eastern border with Saskatchewan.
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The next day a suicide-bomber in the west of the country killed at least 37 members of an anti-Taliban militia.
Hostility to the idea of Poles selling farms, especially (in the west of the country) to Germans, has gone up quite sharply.
Turkey is trying to convince America to let it station its peacekeepers at Salahaddin, between Baghdad and the Kurdish north, or in the west of the country.
Human rights groups are likely to criticise Mr Obama's visit as premature, given that the ruling government has failed to prevent outbreaks of communal violence in the west of the country.
Like nearly all other countries, Iran does not formally recognise the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan, but it is allowed to maintain a consulate at Herat in the west of the country.
But then, Iraq is the only country in the region where the West overthrew an enemy regime and retained an empowered military force in the country in the years that followed.
This is in support of Malian troops fighting Islamist extremists in the west African country.
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An environment ministry official in the West African country said cattle and sheep eat discarded bags.
Last week's 6.3-magnitude quake in the west of country, close to Bandar Bushehr, resulted in 37 deaths.
Chevron today announced its first venture in the west African country of Liberia.
Its armed forces have been helping government forces in the West African country recapture the central town of Konna.
Aisha remained optimistic about democratic change in the west African country, particularly for women, but was also realistic about its pace.
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Born in the United States to Senegalese parents, Akon, or Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam, spent his early years in the West African country.
Adoboli left his home in the west African country of Ghana and made his way to UBS after graduating from Nottingham University (UK) in 2003, according to the NY Times.
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Meanwhile, Ivory Coast is beginning three days of national mourning for at least 60 people crushed to death after they left a New Year's Eve fireworks display in the West African country's biggest city, Abidjan.
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