Police are appealing for information after a woman was assaulted while out walking her dogs on boxing day in Bristol. At around 12pm on Saturday, December 26, the victim, a 44 year-old woman, was walking her two dogs in the field area on Hatchet Road, Stoke Gifford when she was approached by a group also walking their dogs. A dispute
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Despite the challenging adverse weather, South Gloucestershire Council’s meals on wheels service has been busy delivering welcome hot meals to the district’s older residents. The service has experienced an increase of over 20 per cent in requests for meal deliveries as the severe weather has meant that many elderly and vulnerable residents have found it difficult to get to the
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Yate’s youth café has received planning approval after 10 years of languishing on the drawing board. The £1.3m facility will provide an open-plan café area, activity rooms, office and meeting rooms for advice and counselling services, as well as an outdoor café garden. It will be built on council-owned land adjacent to the town’s leisure centre and has a planned
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Thornbury-based police worked with volunteers from Avon & Somerset Search and Rescue during the recent wintry weather to make sure people were safe. Volunteer Alan George based himself and the charity’s four-wheel drive ambulance at Thornbury Police Station on Wednesday January 08 and Thursday January 09 2010. He said: “The officers and staff made me very welcome and I was
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South Gloucestershire Council employee Rhiannon Holder, 22, has been awarded an MBE in recognition of services to young people’s healthcare. Rhiannon, who was named in the New Year Honours List, has been employed as a project worker (teenage pregnancy) at the council since May 2009 and is based at the Bowling Hill offices in Yate. The scope of her work
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Conservative campaigners have expressed concerns after proposals emerged to downgrade Frenchay Hospital even further. The accusation follows publication of a paper from the Labour government’s NHS South Gloucestershire organisation that is to be presented to councillors on South Gloucestershire Council’s Health Scrutiny Committee on Wednesday 6 January. Entitled ‘Frenchay Project – the Emerging Themes’, the document refers to only 50-60
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Heavy falls of snow have disprupted transport and closed schools in South Gloucestershire. South Gloucestershire Council has set up a Severe Weather page on its website. Other useful links: BBC Bristol (FM: 94.9, 103.6, 104.6; DAB; Listen Live) Snow and travel information for Bristol and Bath Traffic information
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Proposals to help small businesses and defend the district against over-development are to be put in front of Ministers. In the summer, Conservative councillors drew up proposals that would see the government pay small business rate relief automatically and abolish regional planning, including the controversial Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) document that calls for 32,800 new houses to be built in
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Flooding in the South Gloucestershire village of Aust could be a thing of the past, thanks to campaigning local councillors. A £30,000 scheme to enlarge a local council-managed culvert – named Cake Pill Gout – has recently been completed by South Gloucestershire Council after permission was received from the Lower Severn Internal Drainage Board (LSIDP) – the authority responsible for
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