South Gloucestershire | Archive | 2005 | July
I AM writing to address some of the points made in the consultation paper on the future of the schools in Yate and Chipping Sodbury. Little was said in the public meetings about the cost of the options. One is left with the impression that Option D (to keep all three schools open) takes significant money from other schools in the authority, whilst the other options are all affordable. But, this is not the case. more...
THE Save Frenchay Hospital Group (SFHG) is delighted that the South Gloucestershire Council's Health Scrutiny Subcommittee has had the courage to make the decision to refer the downgrading of Frenchay Hospital to the Secretary of State for Health to ask her to refer it on to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel. more...
ON BEHALF of the parents, staff and committee of Chipping Sodbury Pre-School, we are sending this letter to express our concerns at the work that has recently been undertaken to develop the building behind the Baptist Church Centre into a nursery facility. more...
AS MY professional career at Chipping Sodbury School draws to a close I realise how privileged, lucky and honoured I have been to work in such a wonderful school. more...
OLVESTON'S important role in the development of the Quaker movement more than 300 years ago will be celebrated this weekend when scores of descendants of a local Quaker family stage a pilgrimage back to the village and to other Quaker "hotspots" in the district. more...
A RECOVERING alcoholic from Pucklechurch has escaped a lengthy jail sentence despite tricking the state out of more than £12,000. more...
RESIDENTS living near Abbotswood Shopping Centre, in Yate, have long been blighted with graffiti, vandalism and youths behaving anti-socially. The few shops and take-away restaurants are a hang-out for bored youngsters who are blamed for causing trouble and making the lives of young parents and elderly residents an unnecessary hassle. But people living in surrounding flats and houses are hitting back - they have formed the Abbotswood Action Group and last week Gazette reporter Ali Dent joined them for one of their first community walkabouts with police and safety officers from South Gloucestershire Council. more...
Almondsbury C of E Primary School says "farewell" to head teacher Roger McLean today. Past pupil Kate Cook visited her alma mater to discover what made Mr McLean stay at the school for 23 years. more...
THORNBURY was decked out in its floral best this week when the town was visited by two judges from the South West Britain in Bloom competition. more...
VANDALS have wrecked a public garden in Thornbury only hours after it won praise from horticultural experts. more...
VETS are predicting that a deadly virus which kills dogs is making a comeback in South Gloucestershire and Bristol. more...
FOUL waste and human excrement is blocking the path of youngsters on their way to school in Chipping Sodbury. more...
WORRIED parents, pupils and staff at Yate and Chipping Sodbury's three secondary schools have flooded the education authority with letters and questionnaires pleading for a rethink on changes to the future of secondary school provision. more...
IT is estimated that social security fraud costs the country £2 billion each year. Around 60 percent comes from bogus claims for income support, jobseeker's allowance and housing benefit and South Gloucestershire is no different. Hannah Swingler investigates how South Gloucestershire Council is preventing benefit cheats. more...
FRETFUL parents, pupils and staff at King Edmund Community School, Yate who will have to wait until next term to find out if their beloved school is closing, are staging a peaceful protest. more...
ENTERPRISING young students at The Ridings High School, Winterbourne have relaunched a bike that was first designed 40 years ago. more...
WESSEX Water is stepping up its campaign to stop people using their toilet as a rubbish bin. more...
COUNCILLORS are being asked to save one of Easter Compton's most familiar old community buildings. more...
A MAN from Wickwar is putting his best foot forward to embark on a mammoth task in aid of a national charity. more...
ACTON Turville residents have got a step closer to realising their dream to build a tennis court in the village thanks to a grant of £1,000 from Sport Relief. more...
A THREAT to some of the cherished rural payphones in Severn Vale villages has been lifted. more...
POLICE in Yate have criticised a mobile phone company for giving away free mini-motorbikes as part of a special offer. more...
A PETITION signed by 32,000 protesters who want to save Frenchay Hospital from being downgraded to a community health centre has been delivered to Secretary of State for Health Patricia Hewitt. more...
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