South Gloucestershire | Archive | 2004 | November
A YOUTH group which began life as a short-term holiday club celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. And, during its quarter of a century, the Oldbury-on-Severn club has come up with an unusual base and an inventive fundraising initiative. Gazette feature writer Kirsty Ramsden met youth club leader Andrew Gazard, whose efforts at the group have helped earn him the MBE. more...
SIR - Royal Mail's reported plan to close up to 280 post offices will be a significant blow to a great many elderly people. more...
SIR - Once again the issue of traveller sites is in the news again. I would be interested in your readers' comments on the following. more...
SIR - Mr Kent's letter (Gazette, November 5) implying that information about Councillors' expenses is not available could be another case of shooting from the lip. more...
SIR - Traffic Congestion: The onset of winter and the temporary amelioration of the massive flow of tourist traffic through out area provides a golden opportunity to improve our motorway system before next summer. more...
SIR - I am writing to express my absolute astonishment at the letter from the Labour spokeswoman (Gazette, November 5) in which she chose to rail against the Thornbury community, local residents, councillors, businesses and the Gazette for supporting their local hospital. more...
SIR - I wish to utter my disbelief that Thornbury Hospital could possibly be closed. May I remind you that when Almondsbury Hospital was closed by Southmead Hospital, the residents of Almondsbury and nearby villages were told that there would always be beds in Thornbury Hospital for respite care and very ill elderly patients. How quickly the authorities forget! more...
SIR - Over the past ten years Grace and Henderson wards have both provided respite care for my late parents enabling my husband and I, their carers, to "recharge our batteries" in the knowledge that both were in safe and caring hands. more...
SIR - I write in support of Thornbury Hospital and the vital facilities it offers to the community. There are many specific examples of the excellent care provided in Henderson Ward to senior citizens with long term problems, sometimes incurable, and the comfort of knowing their relatives and friends are local and available for support. more...
SIR - As I am fed up with reading the phrase "Community Leaders" what about "Elected Representatives" instead? more...
A WALL of silence has been mounted in Frampton Cotterell after a fireworks' display at a village primary school left a three-year-old boy scarred for life. more...
FIVE Middle Eastern children, believed to be seeking asylum in Britain, have been discovered hiding in a lorry load of chocolate in Pucklechurch. more...
A TEENAGER from Chipping Sodbury is embarking on a singing career - as predicted by a surgeon who helped save her life. more...
GEOFF White, the inaugural head teacher at Raysfield County Primary School, in Chipping Sodbury, died in the Royal United Hospital, Bath, on November 1 after a very short illness. more...
HOW to look after hedgehogs is a lesson a group of youngsters in Frampton Cotterell all now know. more...
A DOG from Yate has beaten off hundreds of other pooches to reach the semi-finals of a national competition. more...
A PREGNANCY counselling service for South Gloucestershire and Bristol will be opening its doors in Yate on Monday. more...
DO YOU know who owned your house before you? Or before that? more...
OH crumbs, what do we do now? That was the reaction of many dedicated cake-makers with the closure earlier this year of Thornbury store the Compleat Cookshop. more...
ONE in five young drivers in the region who are still at school or college admit to drink-driving, according to a shock survey released this week. more...
GALE force winds and torrential downpours may have put some people off venturing outside, but craft lovers in Chipping Sodbury were determined to brave the elements. more...
PATIENTS in the Thornbury area may notice changes this month when the district's Primary Care Trust takes over the running of the GP out-of-hours service. more...
NORTHAVON MP Steve Webb this week accused local hunt supporters of "crude intimidation" after they took their protest to his front door. more...
WHAT A difference a month - and a community campaign - make. more...
DESPITE the fact that the Lord Chancellor has made it clear that pro-hunt magistrates have an "obligation to obey and enforce the law", one South Gloucestershire magistrate has pledged his support to the Hunting Declaration. more...
A SOCIAL club in Pucklechurch was subjected to a barrage of attacks by youngsters with fireworks. more...
PATRICIA Gardener will be facing her biggest fear on her birthday - Saturday, November 20 - by walking over the Clifton Suspension Bridge to raise funds for Bullywatch, the website and support group for children and young people who have been bullied. more...
PLANNING applications received by South Gloucestershire Council include: more...
YATE Town Council's website was officially launched last week. more...
WHETHER it be art, religion, dance or history - pupils at Brimsham Green School now have the perfect opportunity to be experts in them all. more...
Westbury United 0 Almondsbury FC 6 more...
What a difference a week can make. An uninspiring 0-0 draw with Colchester United seems like an age away after Bristol City produced two excellent performances at Ashton Gate this week to move up to 7th position in League One. Firstly came a 4-1 battering of England's "football's franchise club" Milton Keynes Dons, formerly knows as Wimbledon. Then, more breath-taking and more surprisingly was Tuesday night's superb win over second-placed Tranmere Rovers. The Wirrall club arrived at Ashton Gate on the back of a five game winning streak, but City disposed of Rovers with relative ease. more...
BEATEN just once in their 16 Nationwide Conference games this season, Carlisle have won four and drawn four on their travels so Rovers can expect no push-over in tomorrow's FA Cup first round tie at the Memorial Stadium. more...
ONE of the fastest growing sports in the country is set to take the region by storm, and this could just be the start of a whole new craze in the South West. more...
RIVALS Mangotsfield United and Yate Town have both safely negotiated their way into the next round of the FA Trophy, though Yate were forced to a replay. more...
Adderbury Park 0 Winterbourne United 2 more...
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