As part of National Consumer Week (September 14 – 18), South Gloucestershire Council’s trading standards department is promoting its Buy With Confidence scheme for consumers. To raise public awareness and attract new members, the Buy With Confidence ‘postavan’ will be travelling around the district throughout the whole week. Buy With Confidence is an approved trader scheme introduced by trading standards
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South Gloucestershire Council’s planning chief has criticised the government for claiming that its controversial planning blueprint should be implemented, despite the document being in ‘legal limbo’. The Council has been told by the Government that: “The RSS [Regional Spatial Strategy] has reached such an advanced stage that we [the Government] would expect it now to be given considerable weight in
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South Gloucestershire police have arrested three people for burglary acting on information from the public. On the afternoon of Sunday September 13, 2009, two 15-year-old boys were arrested in Stoke Gifford by police who responded to a call about youths congregating in a lane. Officers arrived to find someone had got into a house using a ladder from the garden
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Neighbourhood Police and Trading Standards officers carrying out checks on underage alcohol sales in the Chipping Sodbury, Frampton Cotterell and Yate areas were disappointed that five out of seven off-licences sold alcohol to under-18s. On Friday September 04 2009 police teamed up with South Gloucestershire Trading Standards officers for the operation, aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour and alcohol-related offences. With
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Kingswood campaigners have questioned the legality of Bristol City Council’s plans to cut various bus services. The legal concerns follow the disclosure that the Liberal Democrat administration broke its own rules with the way it consulted on its plans to cut Sunday services on the cross-boundary 5 and 7 services from the end of September. From 24th June to 8th
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South Gloucestershire police have seized suspected cannabis with an estimated street value of more than £300,000 in an operation in Wick. Officers from the district’s Proactive Team acted on information from the community to plan the operation under the Misuse of Drugs Act. Police and Crime Scene Investigation officers went to a rented house in an isolated area on Tuesday
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A turf cutting ceremony to mark the start of building work on the new £5million St Peter’s Anglican and Methodist VC Primary School development will be held on Monday 14 September. Councillor Sheila Cook, executive member for children and young people, headteacher Keith Tinline-Purvis, teachers, pupils, governors, representatives from the church, together with contractors, Thomas Vale Construction, will be present
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South Gloucestershire Police arrested five men after a reported burglary at Little Stoke Youth Club on Sunday September 06 2009. Officers made the arrest the same night as the reported break-in after and recovered a cash till, cash and hi-fi system believed to have been stolen from the centre. Three men aged 17, a 20-year-old and a 28-year-old have been
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South Gloucestershire Council has funding available to improve public open space at Court Road in Kingswood, and residents are being encouraged to help decide how best to spend the money. Suggestions have already been made about how residents would like to see the area, which is on the junction with Hopps Road and Claypool Road, developed. These include installing play
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Police are appealing for information following the theft of diesel from garage premises in Alveston, South Gloucestershire, overnight on Tuesday 1st September 2009, The incident occurred between 9pm and 7am the following day, when a large quantity of diesel was removed from the storage tanks at Berkley Vale Motors in Thornbury Road. It is believed that a large lorry or
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