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Stories for 20 May 2005

South Gloucestershire Letters

Disabled parking is my right

HAVING seen your article about a Mr Sackley and disability parking (Gazette, May 13) I would like to say to him to make sure he approaches the right people about these things.   more...

Lessons of history shape our future

I READ with interest your Comment in last week's Gazette and disagreed that VE day and the Second Word War should be only a distant episode in history to our children. It is through the lessons of history that we shape our future and this historical episode has done more to shape the works we live into today than any else in the 20th century.  more...

South Gloucestershire News

Bike to be won by best delivery person

AS part of our celebration of Local Newspaper Week the Gazette has teamed up with Chain Life cycle shop in Thornbury to offer an amazing Giant Rock SE mountain bike to one of the hardworking youngsters listed below who deliver the Gazette each week for newsagents all over Gloucestershire and South Glos. The one with the most votes will win the bike.  more...

Last of market gardeners has dying wish fulfilled

THE dying wish of the founder of one of South Gloucestershire's most successful farms has been fulfilled.   more...

'Improved' PO gets a stamp of disapproval

A YATE woman has slammed Royal Mail in the same week the company announced it had stamped out problems with the postal service reaching record targets in its deliveries.  more...

New Glastonbury?

YATE is to have its own mini-Glastonbury Festival next year.   more...

Sacred centre opens

A new multi-faith centre inside Leyhill Prion was offically opened on Tuesday.  more...

Mayor hopes to put Yate on the map

YATE has a new mayor this year and she is hoping to promote the town to its residents and visitors alike.   more...

Court rules death of boy accidental

AN EIGHT-year-old boy with an extremely rare degenerative disease died as the result of an accident, a coroner has recorded.   more...

'We'll listen to views about nuclear waste'

A PACKED meeting in Thornbury this week was told that their views on the disposal of potentially deadly nuclear materials from Oldbury and Berkeley nuclear power stations would be taken into consideration by the Government before one of several storage options was decided upon.  more...

Driving sight fears

MORE than six out of ten drivers whose eyesight was checked during a South Gloucestershire road safety campaign had faulty vision of some sort.  more...

Tip is finally for the dump

RESIDENTS who have endured the misery of living near a waste tip for more than 30 years have been re-assured that an end really is finally in sight.  more...

School is going to Russia with love

NEW East-West links are opening in Thornbury thanks to partnerships forged between the town's Castle School and schools in Russia.  more...

Police first to apply fast-track bail plan

POLICE in South Gloucestershire will be the first in the Avon and Somerset force to use new powers to bail people without bringing them to a police station.  more...

South Gloucestershire Sport

Will 2005 be the key year?

GLOUCESTERSHIRE CCC have got off to a mixed start in all competitions in the 2005 season, as the club's new look line-up continues to develop.  more...

New golf course swings into action

LAST week saw the opening of a new six hole par three academy course at Chipping Sodbury Golf Club.  more...

England call-up for lethal Lewis

GLOUCESTERSHIRE fast bowler Jon Lewis could make his England Test debut next week after being named in a 12-man squad for the first Test against Bangladesh.  more...

Manager is required

TYTHERINGTON Rocks FC, who play in the Hellenic League Division One West, require a first team manager/coach for the 2005-06 season.  more...

Runners enjoy fast course

Thornbury Running Club, in action at the Tewkesbury Half Marathon last week, achieved some excellent results, including some personal bests on a course that has a reputation for producing fast times.   more...

  
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