Thornbury police are appealing for witnesses and information after the tyres of 26 cars were slashed. The damage happened overnight Tuesday to Wednesday, 1st/2nd February in a number of streets near to Castle School and off Gillingstool. Anyone with any information which could help police enquiries is asked to call police on 0845 456 7000. Two men were arrested in
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Young people in South Gloucestershire will be making waves on the radio during the half-term break. They will be broadcasting again as ‘Multi FM’ on 87.7 FM from the Old School youth centre in Kingswood, which is run by South Gloucestershire Council. The young people will be hosting a mixture of interviews, live music and songs from Monday 21st to
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Environmental projects across South Gloucestershire are being given a helping hand by the council to get them off the ground. Almost £75,000 has been awarded to 33 community groups across the district to support community action, volunteering and environmental improvement this financial year. Councillor Brian Allinson, executive member for Planning, Transportation and Strategic Environment said: “As part of building the
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Members of Avon and Somerset Police Authority’s Finance committee heard recently that 1,300 people have had their say on this year’s budget and given their views on cuts to police funding. In December and January members and staff of the Police Authority carried out telephone, on-line and face to face consultation with residents and local authorities. Residents were asked about
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Police are appealing for information after the driver of a car was reported to be acting suspiciously in the Stoke Gifford area. Just after 8:30pm on Tuesday 25th January, a 12-year-old boy was walking along Longdown Avenue, on the new housing estate next to the Abbeywood MoD complex. A dark-coloured BMW three-series car pulled up and the driver asked the
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The first residents have started moving into Cambrian Green Court in Yate – South Gloucestershire Council’s first multi-million pound extra care housing development. Councillor Matthew Riddle and staff from Cambrian Green Court met some of the new residents on Friday 28th January, including Eric Ball, who has moved there from Frome House, a care home in Yate. Cllr Riddle took
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Anyone with an MP3 player can now download hundreds of audiobooks for free from a new service available through public libraries in South Gloucestershire and across the region by visiting the Libraries West website. Choose from over 600 titles, which can be downloaded for three weeks to a PC, mobile phone or MP3 player. All titles are unabridged and available
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A Conservative councillor has joined local residents in welcoming the start of building work on a new footpath. South Gloucestershire Council has started to construct the first phase of a long-awaited footpath between the villages of Alveston and Old Down. Local residents have been requesting the footpath for a number of years. Back in 1992, Mr Arthur Webb, an Old
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South Gloucestershire Council is continuing its fight against fly-tipping and littering – which costs taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds each year to clean up – following the successful prosecution of four individuals for committing related offences. Following an investigation, the council brought a prosecution against John Cox, of Redfield Hill, Oldland Common after he fly-tipped six bags of waste
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Dear Editor, On the same day in December that the Conservative-led government published its plans for the Big Society (the Localism Bill) and announced how much money it was (or wasn’t) giving local councils, another announcement was quietly slipped out. This announcement related to the winding up of a scheme called the Independent Living Fund (ILF). The ILF was established
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