South Gloucestershire police will be putting well-rehearsed plans into action over the Easter holiday weekend to help manage traffic heading to the Badminton Horse Trials. Around 140,000 people are expected to descend on the Badminton estate, which hosts one of the world’s largest equestrian events – second only to the Kentucky Derby. The event runs from Thursday 21st April, with
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The Mall, Cribbs Causeway, is raising money for local charities over the Easter 2011 weekend by filling its fountain pool with colourful plastic chicks. For a £1 donation to the shopping centre’s Fountain Fund, children can try to hook a chick from the pool. If they hook a chick with a winning number on the bottom, they will receive a
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Residents across South Gloucestershire are being invited to nominate for an award those who do great work in their communities to help tackle anti-social behaviour. South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has launched the Strong, Safer Communities Awards 2011 and is looking to praise and reward people whose commitment and hard work in helping protect their neighbourhoods often goes unrecognised in their
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Merlin Housing Society is extending its housing office opening hours after listening to residents’ views. From the week beginning Monday 2nd May, Merlin’s three housing offices will be open for residents to pop in from 8:30am – 5pm, Monday – Friday. And on Mondays residents will be able to phone their housing office until 6:30pm. The six month pilot of
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after reports that thieves have stolen metal gully or drain covers from South Gloucestershire roads. The Council’s highways department has reported ten covers going missing throughout March and April. It’s believed they are being stolen for their scrap metal value. Gratings are known to have been taken from Whitfield near Wotton-under-Edge; Fernhill, Almondsbury;
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South Gloucestershire police have launched Rural Watch across South Gloucestershire. The aim is to offer support to farmers, stables and rural households to combat crime, improve their security and encourage them to report anything suspicious to police. More than 100 members of existing Farm Watch and Horse Watch schemes and those who have recently suffered from crime will be offered
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Staff and pupils at Blackhorse Primary School in Emersons Green are celebrating after being rated ‘good’ by Ofsted inspectors. During their visit last month, inspectors found that the South Gloucestershire primary school “has improved significantly and is now a good school.” Acting Headteacher, Philip Winterburn, said: “This is a fantastic result for Blackhorse which recognises the huge commitment and hard
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A driver has been prosecuted for driving his 18 tonne heavy commercial vehicle through the 7.5 tonne environmental weight limit running through Easter Compton and Pilning in South Gloucestershire. The driver, Craig Anthony Stokes of Gloucester pleaded guilty at North Avon Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 29th March and was fined £100 and ordered to pay costs of £150 plus a
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Nearly 3,400 South Gloucestershire pupils are to benefit from a £1.5m funding boost. Following analysis of the January 2011 annual school census, South Gloucestershire Council has now confirmed to schools how each of them are set to benefit from the Coalition Government’s flagship ‘pupil premium’, which aims to target extra resources at the most disadvantaged school children. The ‘pupil premium’
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Nearly on year on since the tragic death of father and grandfather Barry Rubery detectives working to locate his killers are appealing to the public for their help. Barry, 69, was brutally attacked outside his Iron Acton home on Wednesday 28th April 2010. Detectives know he had been out with friends that evening and returned to Crossing cottage at around
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