South Gloucestershire Council’s Conservative planning chief has accused the Labour government of contradicting itself, following its admission of shortcomings in the way it has prepared its controversial planning blueprint for the region. The Government has confirmed plans to carry out a new ‘Sustainability Appraisal’ after admitting flaws in how it has drawn up its latest draft of the Regional Spatial
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Police are appealing for information following a serious assault in Yate, during the early hours of Saturday 26th September 2009. The incident occurred at approximately 2.50am when a 21 year old man was found unconscious lying on the ground in Sundridge Park. He had a serious head injury and we believe he was assaulted. Just prior to the incident he
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Filton police arrested a man within minutes of a robbery in Church View, Filton, on Monday September 28 2009. It happened at around midday, when a shopkeeper was on his way to bank his takings. The victim was grabbed and pushed to the floor in the attack. Local people came forward to give officers information at the scene. Police searched
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Bristol City Planning Committee has approved plans by NHS South Gloucestershire to refurbish Cossham Hospital. “This is a very exciting time. We have worked together over a number of years to agree what services the NHS will provide from Cossham. Now we look forward to seeing the building refurbished so that we can offer a wider and improved range of
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a man indecently exposed himself to two 12-year-old girls. The incident occurred on Saturday 12th September 2009 at around 4.40pm in Littledean, Yate, Bristol. The man is described as white, aged about 60 years and 5ft 5ins tall. He had a round face with big cheeks. He was wearing small rectangle glasses
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Little Miss Muffet, Little Bo Beep and even Incey Wincey Spider will be helping to celebrate National Bookstart Day 2009. The theme this year is My Favourite Rhyme. To celebrate National Bookstart Day, South Gloucestershire’s Library Service is holding two special events for parents and children to enjoy singing rhymes and learn more about Bookstart. This is part of a
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Residents of South Gloucestershire will be even safer as a result of the opening of an extended CCTV service covering the district. An official opening on 29 September marks the completion of an 18 month project to provide state-of-the-art CCTV equipment across South Gloucestershire. Brand new equipment has been installed in key locations including Kingswood, Staple Hill, Chipping Sodbury, Hanham,
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South Gloucestershire Council is running two events for homeowners and builders over the next month to promote building regulation standards and sound building practice. The building ‘surgeries’ are being held at Wickes, Longwell Green between 8am and 11am on 29 September and 13 October. Two council surveyors will be on hand to assist customers with any queries they may have
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Police are appealing for information after thieves broke into a storage unit at an infants’ school in Yate, stole a scooter and scrawled offensive graffiti on a play house. It happened at Broadway County Infants School over the weekend of September 19-20 2009. The burglary caused about £150 of damage to the storage unit to steal the red push-along scooter
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An exciting new project is being launched this weekend which will provide opportunities for local people to get out and about in their local natural environment. Co-ordinated by South Gloucestershire Council, Wildways is a three year project funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces Programme which is managed by Natural England under the Access to Nature Scheme. The project
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