Dozens of young people came along to an open event to learn about an apprenticeship with Merlin Housing Society and the hope of a new job in the new year. Around 70 would-be plumbers, plasterers and electricians attended the event at Merlin’s apprenticeship partner, South Gloucestershire and Stroud College last Wednesday. They were there to learn more about Merlin’s apprenticeship
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Local cycling groups have labelled Filton and Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti “a wimp” for not signing an Early Day Motion (EDM) that calls for measures to be taken to make cycling more popular and safer. In reply, Mr Lopresti says the ‘Get Britain Cycling’ EDM has little prospect of achieving anything, adding that he prefers to help the cause
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The organisation responsible for the Downend Firework Display has reported the event raised around £18,000 for local charities. The Great Western Round Table presented cheques to several causes including Macmillan Cancer Care, the Keynsham Scout group, the MS Therapy Centre, Children in Need and the Kingswood Scout group. It also presented £1,500 to the Kingswood Bus Project, which provides youth
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Frenchay Hospital campaigners are to ask for South Gloucestershire Council’s support in their efforts to end the latest uncertainty that hangs over a new community hospital. Plans for Frenchay’s new community hospital – now known as a Health and Social Care Centre – were only agreed last year and envisaged a greater range of services than that proposed in the
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Horizon Nuclear Power, the developers of a proposed new nuclear power station at Oldbury, today welcomed completion of the company’s purchase by Hitachi Ltd of Japan, four weeks after agreement was reached with shareholders E.ON and RWE. The company its assets and its staff have now been acquired by Hitachi as a going concern. Horizon Chief Operating Officer Alan Raymant
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Bristol based land and property agents CJH Land has brokered one of the largest land transactions in the West Country in recent years. House builder Taylor Wimpey has acquired more than 150 acres of land at Emersons Green, which will see about 2,000 homes built over the next ten years. Specialist land and development agents, CJH Land acted on behalf
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Proposals to further increase the number of homes to be built in South Gloucestershire between 2012 and 2017 are unjustified and could jeopardise the district’s hard-fought goal of balanced and sustainable development, South Gloucestershire Council has warned. The changes to the district’s long-term planning blueprint, or Core Strategy, were requested by the Government-appointed Inspector responsible for the Strategy’s public examination
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), in partnership with Wiltshire Council, has today (Monday 12th November) announced that British Telecom has been chosen as the preferred bidder to provide superfast broadband to premises across the South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire area. Welcoming the announcement, Cllr John Goddard, Chair of South Gloucestershire Council’s Resources Sub-Committee, said: “We were delighted to have joined Wiltshire in
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Plans to “raid” a village’s transport funds to spend in another part of South Gloucestershire have been put on hold. A report that went to last Monday’s (5th November) meeting of South Gloucestershire Council’s Policy and Resources Committee meeting had recommended that £420,000 paid to the council by the developers of Hortham Village in Almondsbury parish should be spent on
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Labour’s leader in South Gloucestershire has accused the district’s Tories and Liberal Democrats of pretending that the council does not face cuts in its services. This afternoon, councillors on the Policy and Resources Committee were asked to agree the public consultation questionnaire on next year’s budget. This document included a reference to “additional service cuts” if certain options are taken.
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