South Gloucestershire | Archive | 2005 | December
Friday, December 9 9am, Thornbury, Library. Thornbury Art Club and Writers Circle exhibition until December 14 during library hours. 2.30pm, Alveston, Methodist Hall. Alveston 50 Plus Group seasonal entertainment. 7.15pm, Thornbury, Armstrong Hall Old Bakery Annexe. Thornbury and District Stamp Club, Members display, Letter S. more...
Friday, December 9 10am, Yate, Pop Inn Cafe in Yate Shopping Centre. Meet for a walk around Kingscote Park as part of South Gloucestershire Council's Walking For Life Programme. 2.15-2.45pm, Chipping Sodbury Library, festive fun with storytime with the Bookstart Bear suitable for pre-school children. 2.30-4.30pm, Chipping Sodbury, Heron Way, Tyndale Centre. Christmas charity sale with bespoke jewellery, cards and crafts. Proceeds in aid of the Leprosy Mission and the Tear Fund. 5.30pm, Chipping Sodbury, Victorian Day with a special visit from Father Christmas himself. more...
A CHRISTMAS concert by candlelight comes to St Cyr's Church, Stinchcombe. more...
THE COUNTDOWN has started - oh yes it has - to Gloucestershire's biggest and best pantomime at Cheltenham's Everyman which, this year, is Jack and the Beanstalk. more...
LAST month the Shire Way Community Centre in Yate secured a grant for £3,000 from the Gannett Foundation, the charitable arm of the Gazette's parent company, to pay for the installation of an induction loop in three of the centre's function rooms - the main hall, the bar and the skittle alley. This week reporter Alex Ross went along to the centre to take a look at role of the centre in the community of Yate. more...
MEMBERS of Thornbury's Make Poverty History (MPH) group will be out in the town tomorrow to mark the campaign's third global White Band Day. more...
A SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE schoolboy appeared in court this week accused of taking a replica gun and metal spike into school. more...
THE most beautiful and well looked after village in the whole of Avon has been named as Tytherington in the 2005 Avonside Village of the Year competition. more...
A ROAD safety investigation is to take place in Winterbourne following a series of car accidents in the last two months. more...
PEOPLE in South Gloucestershire are being reminded of how to get the right treatment at the right time this winter, as part of the NHS national Get the Right Treatment campaign. more...
PRIMARY schools in South Gloucestershire have almost all done well in this year's Key Stage 2 tests, according to achievement tables just released. more...
THE leader of an independent watchdog body set up to monitor Oldbury nuclear power station has written to Prime Minister Tony Blair calling for a new atom plant on the Severnside site and says he has the people of South Gloucestershire behind him. more...
OLVESTON lost a pillar of the community this week when parish councillor Sheila Plummer said goodbye to the village. more...
A SLUMP in the sale of sausage rolls to schools has contributed to a bleak Christmas for more than 50 workers at a factory in Yate whose company faces £20million of debt. more...
DEMOLITION teams have moved onto the former Hortham Hospital site in Almondsbury as developers prepare the ground for a controversial housing scheme. more...
TORY members of South Gloucestershire Council's Cabinet are calling for the council to join protests against plans which could see housing growing by the equivalent of a small Bradley Stoke every year. more...
A PARISH council meeting had to be abandoned almost before it began after a row between members of the council and the parish clerk got out of hand. more...
ALMONDSBURY antiques dealer Graham Pendrill flies out to Kenya this weekend to begin his new life amongst tribesmen on the African plains. more...
DEFIANT Littleton-on-Severn residents fighting plans for a business park on their doorstep this week issued a "we won't be silenced" pledge after thieves stole their protest signs and posters. more...
MORE road works are in store for commuters on the Avon Ring Road during one of the busiest times of the year. more...
Hellenic League Division One West Tytherington Rocks 4 Purton 1 more...
THIS week's pre-budget announcement by Chancellor Gordon Brown looks set to see South Gloucestershire Council receive only a 2.1 percent increase in grant, excluding the amount given to schools. more...
Southern League Errea Cup Mangotsfield United 4 Merthyr Tydfil 1 more...
Gloucester League Division One Chipping Sodbury 3 Frampton Cotterell 21 more...
Western Counties North Old Centralians 9 Thornbury 8 more...
TWO Synwell Amateur Boxing Club fighters had mixed fortunes at the Malmesbury ABC annual boxing dinner show in Chippenham. more...
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