South Gloucestershire | Archive | 2006 | April
THORNBURY Arts Festival which gets under way again in a week's time, has gone from strength to strength over the last few years. more...
COMEDIAN Rik Mayall can be seen on stage at the Bristol Hippodrome from Monday, May 1 to Saturday, May 6. more...
SARA Crowe the Philadelphia Cream Cheese advert girl is on the menu at the Theatre Royal Bath in The Safari Party, a play set at a dinner party that moves from house to house. more...
Friday, April 28 more...
Friday, April 28 8pm, Iron Acton, Marshall Rooms in the High Street. Parish Council meeting. All welcome. more...
I welcome your coverage of the efficacy of ASBOs (Gazette comment, 7 April 2006). more...
I HAVE reason to believe that bus passes instead of tokens will cut crime. Drivers can identify passengers using passes but anyone who is dishonest might use the tokens of someone else and even get change back. more...
THE DERIVATION of the name Gillingstool (Gazette Letters April 14 and 21), pronounced with a hard G, may be found in the 1851 census of Thornbury where it is described as being "formerly known as Duckingstool." So Gillingstool could be the place where the local miscreants were ducked, a gill being the old Norse word for stream. more...
WALKERS are being urged to take steps to save several footpaths in Frampton Cotterell from extinction. more...
THE GIRLFRIEND of a local chef who died in a motorcycle smash this week has been joined by staff at a South Gloucestershire hotel in paying tribute to the man who made a big impression. more...
SOME of the UK's richest people are comfortably nested in the Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire region, a survey has revealed this week. more...
AMATEUR genealogist and historians in South Gloucestershire are celebrating the online publication of the 1841 census. more...
A CHIPPING SODBURY pensioner who believes his car tyre was punctured by a hypodermic syringe claims he could have been killed. more...
A BITTER two-year battle to remove controversial speed humps from a Yate road has finally ended in victory. more...
COMMUNITY leaders are in fear that lives will be put at risk if plans to scrap South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust (PCT) go ahead. more...
THE regionalisation of fire services in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire could put people's lives at risk, a union claimed this week. more...
VANDALS have trashed a school swimming pool in Wick, leaving pupils' hopes of making a splash this summer in murky waters. more...
A FIRE ripped through the roof of a Royal Mail sorting office in Winterbourne on Wednesday night. more...
ANTI-NUCLEAR campaigners have published a map aimed at showing the likely effects on the UK if the Chernobyl nuclear explosion had occurred not in the Ukraine but at Oldbury-on-Severn power station. more...
SIR John Mortimer and friends, exquisite excerpts from Mozart opera, Fine Arts Brass in Concert, time travel discussions with Professor Jim al-Khalili, a recreation of the grandparent-grandchild relationship using dance and multi-media with dancer Niki McCretton, and comedian Alex Horne having fun with word play and the Latin language.....deep breath .. these are just some of the highlights of Thornbury Festival 2006. Not to mention a visit from Wallace and Gromit! more...
GAZETTE cycling team Hacks on Tracks are set to make a speedy return to the cycle track tomorrow in aid of a local charity. more...
THORNBURY schoolboy Edward Moore has been busy this week - buzzing up and down the swimming pool at Thornbury Leisure Centre raising cash for bees. more...
MANGOTSFIELD manager Martyn Grimshaw has resigned his position with the club. more...
THORNBURY BAPTISTS signed off their season in style, hammering 21 goals past a stunned Sanctuary team in two separate games on Tuesday and Saturday respectively. more...
Western Counties North League Thornbury 33 Old Centralians 26 more...
Southern League Premier Division Yate Town 1 Evesham United 1 more...
GLOUCESTERSHIRE have suffered a big blow to their 2006 campaign with the news that New Zealand bowler Shane Bond will not be coming to the club. more...
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