South Gloucestershire | Archive | 2005 | December
POPULAR band Embrace has announced a series of massive open-air gigs across the UK next year, including a date in Gloucestershire. more...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
KING Edmund Community School in Yate has been ordered to improve, just two months after it was saved from the axe. more...
PUB AND CLUB GOERS in South Gloucestershire will notice a new face in their local this week. more...
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...
SOUTH Gloucestershire Council's budget-setting process was due to get officially underway at a cabinet meeting yesterday. more...
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...
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...
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...
A HOMELESS Iranian woman has moved eastwards towards London, after spending four weeks camped in a South Gloucestershire lay-by. more...
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...
A SURVEY of Thornbury's two biggest and busiest car parks has revealed that parking spaces for the disabled are massively underused. more...
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...
PEOPLE across the region are being asked to have their say on the future shape of the local NHS. more...
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...
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...
CHIPPING Sodbury was transported back to a snowy Victorian evening at the weekend with no time travelling Tardis in sight. more...
Southern League Premier Division Yate Town 1 Chippenham Town 2 more...
THREE teenagers from Yate have represented their country at American Football. more...
Hellenic League Premier Division Hungerford Town 2 Almondsbury Town 1 more...
Gloucester League Division Three South Wotton-under-Edge 8 Pilning 14 more...
Hellenic League Division One West Harrow Hill 3 Winterbourne United 3 more...
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