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Stories for 13 January 2006

South Gloucestershire Arts

Comedy at dinner table

TABLE Manners, the classic comedy by Alan Ayckbourn, is set to serve up life in a strife-torn family weekend at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday, January 24 to Saturday, January 28.   more...

'Delightful, delovely' new show

THREE'S Company presents a new show, singing the praises of Cole Porter. It's Delightful, It's Deloveley, It's Cole Porter is presented at Quedgeley Village Hall on Wednesday, February 1 (7.30pm).   more...

Terrible Tates are reunited for classy Victorian thriller

TWO of soap-land's most famous siblings, Emmerdale's Zoe and Chris Tate, are to be reunited in the Victorian thriller 'Gaslight' at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Monday, January 30 to Saturday, February 4.  more...

Thornbury Diary

Friday, January 13 2.30pm, Lower Almondsbury, Old School Hall. Friday Club, whist and scrabble. 2.30pm, Alveston, Methodist Hall. Alveston 50 Plus Group, Waistcoats with Tricia Harrison. 7.15pm, Thornbury, Armstrong Hall Old Bakery Annexe. Thornbury and District Stamp Club, chairman's evening. 7.30pm, Tytherington, Village Hall. Local History Group, The History of Pubs in Thornbury with George Ford.  more...

Yate and Sodbury Diary

Saturday, January 14 9am-1.30pm, Chipping Sodbury, Clock Tower. Chipping Sodbury farmers' market. Plenty of tasty fresh local produce on sale.  more...

'Delightful, delovely' new show

THREE'S Company presents a new show, singing the praises of Cole Porter.  more...

South Gloucestershire Letters

Hunting law is here to stay so get used to it or face consequences

WHEN the first successful prosecutions are inevitably made and the Hunting Act is shown to have teeth, perhaps those disingenuously bleating on about it being 'unworkable' will shut up and take notice. New laws always need time to bed in.   more...

Resist private health

GLOUCESTERSHIRE doctors like Andrew Seymour are speaking out against new policies that compel them to offer private sector treatment to patients while Bristol doctors are even refusing to implement the policy. This is good news for those of us who oppose both Labour and Tory moves towards privatisation.  more...

Animal welfare

I HAVE stayed with my daughter for the past two weeks in her flat in the John Grooms Building, which overlooks the long stay car park in Thornbury.  more...

South Gloucestershire News

Future's bright for Yate school

"THIS is a taste of things to come," was the defiant message sent out by the headteacher of King Edmund Community School at the opening of a brand new business centre.   more...

School rated 'satisfactory'

CHIPPING Sodbury School has been rated as satisfactory and told there is room for improvement by Ofsted inspectors.  more...

Museum must buy base or face closure

A POPULAR village museum has been told by Frenchay Hospital bosses to buy its rented base within the grounds or close.  more...

Police raid heralds drugs crackdown

SUSPECTED and known drug users in the Yate and Sodbury area were targeted this week by police intent on sending out a defiant message that drugs will not be tolerated.  more...

Football helps heal a nation

ALVESTON couple Chris and Kathy Pearce have to make quite a trek to watch their favourite soccer team - half way round the world, in fact.   more...

Lights will be back

TRAFFIC signals at the M5 motorway junction at Falfield could be back to full time operation next month - a year after they were first installed.  more...

Family grieves for tragic twin Amber

A COUPLE have spoken of their heartache after one of their twin daughters was killed by a TV falling on her head as she played with her sister.  more...

Salon is trashed in second break-in

THORNBURY beautician Sarah Chubb has hit out at callous raiders who trashed her salon.  more...

Hospital beds axed

ONE in three acute hospital beds in South Gloucestershire and north Bristol will be axed if plans to downgrade Frenchay go ahead, the Gazette can reveal.  more...

Yes, in the main we are the best

SOUTH Gloucestershire has been named the best council in mainland England for recycling and composting household and industrial waste.  more...

Store cuts 700 jobs

AROUND 700 workers are set to lose their jobs when supermarket chain Morrisons closes its Cribbs Causeway distribution depot.  more...

'Help us to beat bug' plea from hospitals

WARDS at Frenchay and Southmead Hospitals were closed this week because of the vomiting and diarrhoea virus norovirus.  more...

Christmas to be twice as light

THORNBURY could end up with two Christmas fairs and festive lights switch-on events in 2006.  more...

Children centres

ELEVEN children centres offering advanced childcare and support are to be set up in South Gloucestershire by 2008, the Gazette can reveal.   more...

New age ahead for old town?

CHIPPING SODBURY'S civic leaders were split this week in a rift over whether to modernise the medieval town.   more...

'Business as usual for me'

NORTHAVON MP Steve Webb has assured people in South Gloucestershire that changes in the Liberal Democrat party will not disrupt his work in the area.  more...

South Gloucestershire Sport

Thornbury rally is too late by a half

Western Counties North League Thornbury 24 Cheltenham North 41  more...

Serious injury sees match abandoned

Hellenic League Premier Division Almondsbury Town 1 Bishops Cleeve 1 Match abandoned after 83 minutes  more...

Mangotsfield grateful for Shore rescue

Southern League Premier Division Cheshunt 2 Mangotsfield United 2  more...

Last gasp try stuns North

Western Counties North League North Bristol 9 Walcot 10   more...

Outrageous entertainment

OUTRAGE 2006, the first of three CSF Professional Wrestling events scheduled to take place at Yate Leisure Centre this year, will go ahead on Saturday, January 28.  more...

  
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