South Gloucestershire police have recovered two quad bikes and a go-kart stolen from an outdoor activity centre in Winterbourne. The theft happened overnight Monday January 18 to Tuesday January 19 2010. Thieves are believed to have broken into a metal shipping container used for storage to get an angle grinder which they then used to break into the container used
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South Gloucestershire police are appealing for people living in Downend to check their property after five burglaries in the area on Friday February 19 2010. The break-ins all happened between 7.30 and 9.30pm within half a mile of Badminton Road, Downend. DC Jason Hulbert said: “The thieves were simply letting themselves in through unlocked front doors even though the householders
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South Gloucestershire Council has adopted a 2.5 per cent council tax increase and a budget of just under £190m for 2010/11. The rise will mean the average band D property in South Gloucestershire will pay a council tax of £1,245.20. This represents an increase of just under 60 pence a week for council services, compared to 2009/10. The budget provides
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South Gloucestershire Council is lending its support to celebrations to mark the centenary of aircraft production in the area. In 1910 the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company was founded in Filton, and later became known as the British Aeroplane Company, or more commonly as ‘BAC’ to generations of local people. The leader of the council, John Calway, and the chairman
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Mangotsfield councillors and residents have handed hundreds of petition signatures to the Leader of South Gloucestershire Council in defence of the local Green Belt. The petitions are in response to a planning application for 180 new houses on Green Belt land at Cossham Street in Mangotsfield. The developers – Taylor Wimpey UK – have submitted the plans on the back
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Police are appealing for people who may have seen a handbag snatch in the car park of a supermarket in the Kingswood area. The incident happened in the Somerfield car park in Halls Road between 2-2.15pm on Wednesday (February 10). The victim, aged 70, was sat in her car – a blue Volkswagen Polo – when a man male ran
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Police patrolling Warmley in response to recent burglaries of sheds, garages and homes arrested a man and a woman for going equipped to steal. The arrest happened at about 4.30am on Friday February 12 2010 after South Gloucestershire officers spotted a man and a woman carrying a bag of tools, wire, gloves and Stanley knives. A 17-year-old man from Kingswood
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The future of adult health and social care was the theme of the second major ‘Transforming Lives’ congress event hosted jointly by South Gloucestershire Council and the NHS South Gloucestershire. More than 120 people representing a wide range of older people, individuals with health and social care needs, care organisations, community groups, disability groups and social care practitioners came together
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South Gloucestershire Council has introduced an innovative new scheme using old trees as natural climbing frames. Across the district old and dead trees, otherwise destined to be chopped up for firewood, have been felled and transported to playgrounds and open space for children to play on. A great example of this new approach is located at Hanham Hall Park at
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Police in South Gloucestershire are appealing for information after a man was assaulted in Patchway on Saturday, February 6. The victim, a man in his 30s, was walking home through Norman Scott Playing Fields at around 1am with his partner, when it’s alleged that a group of men came from the direction of Windermere Road and assaulted him. It’s believed
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