South Gloucestershire | Archive | 2004 | April
Saturday, April 10 (Easter Saturday) 9am-4pm, Thornbury, St Mary Shopping Centre, recruiting by 39 Signal Regiment HQ (North Somerset Yeomanry) Squadron. 4-5pm, Hill Village Hall, M atthew Riddle, South Gloucestershire councillor for the Severn Ward meeting residents. He can also be contacted on 01454 413263. 7.30pm, Thornbury, Armstrong Hall, Chapel Street, Northavon Youth Theatre, The Boy Friend. Box office Wildings, High Street, Thornbury or telephone 01454 418866. more...
Friday, April 9 (Good Friday) 11am-5.30pm, Dyrham House, Easter Trail, track down the clues and put the pieces of the puzzle together and collect your prize, for more information call 01179 372501 11.45am, Wickwar, Holy Trinity Church car park, bike ride and pub lunch more...
Picture for today . . . The east window in St John the Baptist Church, Old Sodbury, that depicts the crucifixion of Christ on Good Friday Picture by John Anyon GJA302H04 more...
SIR - Would any of your readers like to take on the challenge of the Great North Run and help beat meningitis at the same time? more...
SIR - The first couple of weeks of the so-called "controversial" alternate-weekly bin collections has just happened for us. more...
SIR - An item of "good news" has been circulating around Thornbury. It is that the traffic warden is leaving. more...
SIR - What a joy it is to see the wonderful colours of the flowers and plants as spring comes. Sadly this is tarnished by increasing amounts of litter. more...
SIR - Indignation at the axing of Yate's summer festival is understandable. Yate Shopping Centre is not publicly owned and applies its own rules, actively discouraging, for example, cycling on walkways. Perhaps they should run the rest of Yate and Chipping Sodbury. more...
SOUTH Gloucestershire police are calling time on under age drinking in a bid to combat anti-social behaviour by youths in the area. more...
A MAN has questioned the attitude of his local authority towards St George's Day after being told by a council officer she "does not care about English day". more...
A YATE couple who were set up on a date by a mutual friend during the Second World War have celebrated 60 years of wedded bliss. more...
A GROUP of Chipping Sodbury parents have vowed to fight to keep their children's nursery open. more...
A MAN has questioned the attitude of his local authority towards St George's Day after being told by a council officer she "does not care about English day". more...
OLVESTON Primary School could be the first in the district to embark on a self build project to replace its tiny Victorian school hall. more...
THESPIAN Ross Newman is taking part in his second production of musical Oklahoma but this time is directing the show rather than appearing in it. more...
RESIDENTS living near a green in Yate say their peaceful summer evenings are under serious threat from yobbish teenagers. more...
EUROPE'S biggest factory could see its Yate headquarters expanding by 60 percent. more...
THE CHANTRY - tucked away discreetly at the bottom of Thornbury's Castle Street - is the home of the town's Community Association. Visitors to the town often ask "Where is it?" It is not quite centrally placed. more...
PRIMARY school children from across South Gloucestershire have been finding out about road safety and excavation site safety thanks to an innovative partnership between gas pipeline company Transco and the local authority. more...
HAWKESBURY annual parish meeting on Monday was dubbed a shambles and made void because councillors felt it had not been correctly advertised. more...
THESE notes, prepared by Thornbury Town Council, are intended to provide a more detailed insight into the work the council does for the town. more...
AFTER more than 125 years of reporting the news, the Gazette aims to make the news to celebrate Local Newspaper Week - and we need your help. more...
Stories this week in your 64-pager include: more...
A DISTRICT commissioner for the Guides, who has devoted her time to the community, has been presented with the Dodington Parishioner of the Year award. more...
A GRAND total of £450 was raised by a musical gathering of pirates and fairy princesses at Iron Acton Village Hall on Saturday. more...
TEACHER Jan Burke is running in this month's London marathon to raise cash for Thornbury's Gillingstool Primary School. more...
FALFIELD could be the site of a new "park and share" facility aimed at encouraging more people to travel to and from work using only one car. more...
THORNBURY town centre is to have yet another charity shop - its seventh. more...
PROFESSIONAL wrestling will make a glorious return to Yate later this month, with a grappling extravaganza that is set to draw a huge attendance. more...
THE South West's most celebrated motor racing circuit has just opened its doors for another major season of action, and race fans from across the region are bracing themselves for a festival of fast cars and furious bikes. more...
THE race for automatic promotion from the second division took another turn last Saturday as City defeated fellow promotion chasers Queens Park Rangers 1-0 in front of a capacity crowd at Ashton Gate. more...
Tytherington Rocks 4 Roman Glass St George 2 more...
IF caretaker bosses Russell Osman and Kevan Broadhurst could have picked a couple of more challenging Easter weekend games, they would not have a lot of choice. Not that that is worrying the pair - they are even relishing it. more...
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