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Stories for 16 December 2005

South Gloucestershire Arts

Band embraces opportunity to play in arboretum

POPULAR band Embrace has announced a series of massive open-air gigs across the UK next year, including a date in Gloucestershire.   more...

Scrooge gets taught a lesson

COCKNEY charmer Shane Richie (aka Eastenders' Alfie Moon) weaved his way into audiences' hearts in Bristol this week, despite playing the tight-fisted original Scrooge of Christmas.   more...

Two Elizas for the price of one

THERE will be two Eliza Doolittles in the Cameron Mackintosh and the National Theatre's production of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady at the Bristol Hippodrome from Tuesday, January 24 to Saturday, February 18.  more...

Thornbury Diary

Friday, December 16 7.30pm, Alveston, St Helen's Church. Alveston Singers Christmas concert. 7.30pm, Thornbury, Methodist Church. Christmas flower demonstration. 8pm, Thornbury, Chantry Community Centre. Royal British Legion, cheese and wine.  more...

Yate and Sodbury Diary

Friday, December 16  more...

Four Seasons in one day

FOLLOWING its world premiere at St George's Concert Hall, Bristol, Fantasia on Vivaldi's Four Seasons comes to the Subscription Rooms, Stroud this weekend.  more...

South Gloucestershire News

Shelters for youths

THE problem of large groups of youths gathering in a South Gloucestershire village is to be tackled head-on, in consultation with local residents.  more...

Inspectors give school one year to improve

KING Edmund Community School in Yate has been ordered to improve, just two months after it was saved from the axe.  more...

Facing up to dangers of excessive drinking

PUB AND CLUB GOERS in South Gloucestershire will notice a new face in their local this week.  more...

Campaign for Green Belt gathers more support

MORE than 1,000 people have signed up in support of a campaign to wrap Thornbury in a Green Belt to protect its countryside from development.  more...

Council's 'difficult' budget decisions

SOUTH Gloucestershire Council's budget-setting process was due to get officially underway at a cabinet meeting yesterday.  more...

Surgeon's trek challenge for two cancer charities

A THORNBURY-based surgeon, well known for his work with women and children all over South Gloucestershire, is preparing to put himself to the test by undertaking a challenging hike across the Arabian Desert.  more...

Tories climb aboard rural transport issue

CALLS for a more imaginative public transport system in the rural areas of South Gloucestershire have won the backing of Tory members of the local authority.  more...

Burglar's drug claims didn't impress judge

A BURGLAR who escaped from Leyhill Open Prison - once dubbed Britain's cushiest jail - claimed he did it to avoid the unregulated drugs culture at the institution.  more...

Homeless women moves on to London

A HOMELESS Iranian woman has moved eastwards towards London, after spending four weeks camped in a South Gloucestershire lay-by.  more...

Hospital campaign to carry on

CAMPAIGNERS opposed to the downgrading of Frenchay Hospital are set to fight on, despite a decision by South Gloucestershire Council not to pursue an independent review.  more...

Disabled drivers may lose parking places

A SURVEY of Thornbury's two biggest and busiest car parks has revealed that parking spaces for the disabled are massively underused.  more...

Drunken teen girls arrested in car park

A GROUP of drunken under-age girls smashed a car windscreen and dented its bodywork in a Yate car park, the Gazette can reveal.   more...

Health chiefs cut red tape to give people their say

PEOPLE across the region are being asked to have their say on the future shape of the local NHS.   more...

School back in good books

PARENTS, pupils, staff and governors at Severn Beach Primary School got an early Christmas present this week with news that the school is officially back on track.  more...

Fury as 'monstrosity' replaces phone mast

FAMILIES in two Chipping Sodbury estates are up in arms this week over the replacement of an existing phone mast with a "modern monstrosity" a mere stone's throw from their homes.  more...

Shoppers enjoy a Victorian evening

CHIPPING Sodbury was transported back to a snowy Victorian evening at the weekend with no time travelling Tardis in sight.  more...

South Gloucestershire Sport

Top draw strike sinks Yate

Southern League Premier Division Yate Town 1 Chippenham Town 2  more...

International honours for Gridiron youngsters

THREE teenagers from Yate have represented their country at American Football.  more...

Fluke goal undoes Almondsbury Town

Hellenic League Premier Division Hungerford Town 2 Almondsbury Town 1  more...

Pilning plunder points

Gloucester League Division Three South Wotton-under-Edge 8 Pilning 14  more...

Winterbourne increase their lead after Houdini

Hellenic League Division One West Harrow Hill 3 Winterbourne United 3  more...

  
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