Work is due to start the week commencing Monday 25th October on a scheme designed to slow traffic speeds in the narrow country lanes around Moorend and Bury Hill in Winterbourne. Residents of this semi-rural area have raised concerns for a number of years about the speed and volume of traffic using these narrow rural lanes to avoid traffic congestion
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Filton police, the RSPCA and South Gloucestershire Council’s dog warden recovered eight dogs suspected of being stolen or neglected in an operation at a travellers’ site in Winterbourne on Tuesday 3rd August 2010. Five dogs – a lone week-old puppy of unidentified breed, a German Shepherd bitch and her puppy and two Jack Russells – were seized by the RSPCA,
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South Gloucestershire Council has started a £600,000 programme of improvements to the district’s libraries. Extensions to the existing facilities will be taking place at Bradley Stoke, Hanham and Winterbourne libraries and later in the year Kingswood Library will have an upgrade to its interior. Since many of the libraries were built new services have been introduced such as internet access,
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South Gloucestershire police have recovered two quad bikes and a go-kart stolen from an outdoor activity centre in Winterbourne. The theft happened overnight Monday January 18 to Tuesday January 19 2010. Thieves are believed to have broken into a metal shipping container used for storage to get an angle grinder which they then used to break into the container used
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South Gloucestershire Council has introduced an innovative new scheme using old trees as natural climbing frames. Across the district old and dead trees, otherwise destined to be chopped up for firewood, have been felled and transported to playgrounds and open space for children to play on. A great example of this new approach is located at Hanham Hall Park at
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after thieves stole quad bikes and karts from an outdoor activity centre. It happened overnight Monday January 18 to Tuesday January 19 2010 at the centre at Winterbourne. Thieves are believed to have broken into a metal shipping container used for storage to get an angle grinder which they then used to break
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The X27 bus service is to be extended for the long-term after a successful ‘Use It’ campaign. As part of an initial council-funded 6 month extension, South Gloucestershire Council has been running a high-profile ‘Use It’ campaign since May to build up patronage on the X27 service in an effort to maintain an important bus link between the communities of
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