Commuters using the A4174 Ring Road around north-east Bristol could face three years of traffic misery after proposals for a £30m scheme of road-widening and ‘throughabouts’ were unveiled. The plans aim to tackle congestion and deter motorists from using roads through adjoining residential areas as ‘rat runs’.
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Winners of the two regional elections held on 6th May 2021 have started work in their new roles. Dan Norris (Labour) is the new ‘metro mayor’ for the West of England, while Mark Shelford (Conservative) is the new Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset.
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Covid-19 rapid testing kits for use at home are now available to be collected from six sites in South Gloucestershire. This is in addition to parents of young people attending nurseries, schools and colleges being able to order test kits to be delivered to their home and being able to take a test at one of three rapid testing sites in the district.
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A dog reported stolen in January has been returned to its thankful owner by police after being missing for nearly four weeks. Thieves broke down a large fence to take two male Shetland sheepdogs from a property in the Almondsbury area on Sunday 31st January 2021.
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Statement by South Gloucestershire Council’s director of public health on the discovery of local cases of a new Covid-19 variant. This follows an announcement by Matt Hancock, secretary of state for health and social care, that 11 cases of “mutations of concern” have been identified in the Bristol area.
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South Gloucestershire Council says it supports the announcement of England’s latest national lockdown which began today (Tuesday 5th January 2021) and is appealing to residents in the area to make sure they are fully aware of the new rules and ‘Stay home, protect the NHS and save lives’.
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Statement issued on behalf of Sara Blackmore, director of public health at South Gloucestershire Council following the news that South Gloucestershire is to remain at the Tier 3 (very high) Covid-19 alert level, while the neighbouring area of Bristol will drop down to Tier 2 from Saturday 19th December 2020.
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A pilot programme to test college students who are not showing any symptoms for Covid-19 will begin in South Gloucestershire this week. As part of its measures to help the district move out of the Tier 3 alert level, South Gloucestershire Council is also launching a local contact tracing service.
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An open letter from local health and care leaders: As a group of local NHS and care organisations working on your behalf, our focus is now to get services back to their pre-pandemic levels ahead of winter. This won’t be easy – coronavirus has changed the way we run services and how many people we can see in person at any one time.
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South Gloucestershire’s first coronavirus community testing facility is set to open on Thursday 1st October at the University of the West of England’s Frenchay Campus. It will provide more capacity for local residents, and also for students at the university.
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