Hospital worker attacks and 950 new homes

Here’s our daily pick of stories from across local websites in the West of England.

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.