South Gloucestershire | Archive | 2004 | April
Friday, April 2 2pm, Rockhampton Village Hall, Thornbury U3A Cinema Group, Etre et Avoir (French film). 7.30pm, Thornbury, Old Bakery Annexe, Chapel Street, Thornbury Stamp Club, Visit by Burnham and District Philatelic Society. more...
Friday, April 2 10am, Chipping Sodbury, Church Centre. Tubbie Tots. 10.30-11.30am, Marshfield Church Hall. WI market. Noon-1.30pm, Coalpit Heath, St Saviour's church hall. Lent lunch. 7.30pm, Chipping Sodbury, Old Grammar School Rooms. Royal British Legion, whist Drive. more...
SIR - A few days after receiving the inevitable annual notification of a rise in the South Gloucestershire council tax, there is yet another announcement from the council headed New Collections That Are Twice as Good - or not, depending on how gullible you are. more...
SIR - I'd like to ask for readers' help - I need shed doors, desks and diaries. No, I'm not a collector of random junk but a researcher studying how Mother Nature is responding to our climate. more...
SIR - As a follow up to your two letters regarding swimming times at Thornbury Leisure Centre, I would like to make a point. more...
A WINTERBOURNE hotel has lived up to its policy of "giving back" to charity. more...
GIRLS and boys from primary schools all over the Thornbury area and beyond were at the town's own fame academy recently to show off their newly acquired skills in dancing, singing and stage confidence more...
JOHN Prescott has been advised to stay out of Itchington - because he'd never get his two Jags down the narrow lanes. more...
A YATE schoolboy has been named the country's young letter writer of the year. more...
A GROUP of Yate mums have helped to combat heroin problems which were prolific on the streets of the town. more...
THE admission by South Gloucestershire's health supremo that Yate will not have any hospital beds has caused uproar among councillors. more...
SOUTH Gloucestershire residents may well be asked to recycle even more rubbish. more...
AS a nursing sister at a day surgery unit Joy Fussell has seen at first hand how some women undergoing terminations could have benefited from more time and information. more...
WORK got under way this week on "anti traveller" measures on the wide verge near the junction of Morton Way and Old Gloucester Road in Thornbury. more...
TUMBLE dryer manufacturer Merloni is having its premises inspected by councillors today. more...
"WHERE'S Julie?" more...
CHIPPING Sodbury's Mop Fair was brought into disrepute last year by anti-social teenagers who were either drunk or looking for a fight. Police patrolling last weekend's event however, vowed to crack down on underage drinkers and ruffians causing trouble. Friday night was the biggest challenge for the 12 officers and two sergeants who were intent on stopping youths getting into the fair with any alcohol. more...
THORNBURY has again been alive with the sound of aspiring young musicians - plus those whose artistic gifts veer more towards the spoken word. more...
DISABLED tenants at a Thornbury housing scheme are pleading for their voices to be heard in a row over planned management changes. more...
CHARITY coffers could be slashed by £10,000 following the axing of Yate Festival. more...
Martha Jolly, 4 and Ella McDowell, 4, enjoying a ride at Chipping Sodbury Mop Fair on Saturday GSR223H04 more...
IT happened almost like magic. No sooner had the council moved a machine into Morton Way to start digging anti-traveller defences when who should turn up? That's right - travellers. more...
PEOPLE are being asked to put their best foot forward for the debut of a charity fun run. more...
CHILDREN in Chipping Sodbury who are improving their spelling skills will also help their counterparts in the Gambia. more...
ONE of the only dates in the diary for people in Yate to come together and show off their town has been cancelled. more...
CHRIS TAYLOR has just completed his first month as the new four day captain of Gloucestershire CCC, with his appointment being just one of several changes that have hit the County Ground armory so far this year. more...
THREE defeats back-to-back mean that City have won just once in their last seven games, and are hardly in promotion form. Last weekend's hopes of an automatic promotion place were again knocked as City capitulated to lose 2-1 at Port Vale. more...
Rugby United 1 Mangotsfield United 0 more...
ANOTHER win in tomorrow's derby clash at Whaddon Road will further strengthen Rovers' chances of holding on to their Division Three status and canny Cheltenham boss John Ward, whose side are only three points better off, knows his former club are on a rare high after the weekend. more...
THORNBURY Rugby Club's players, fans and officials were celebrating this week after the club announced that the Rugby World Cup will be on show at their home ground later this month. more...
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