Josie Gibson from Westerleigh was the first contestant to enter the Big Briother house last night in the show’s eleventh and final (at least on Channel4) series. Josie’s profile on the Big Brother website describes her as the life and soul of the party. Everyone in her village already sees her as a celebrity, since in her words “they all
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Social security fraud, including bogus claims for housing benefit and council tax benefit, costs the country billions of pounds each year. South Gloucestershire is no different. The council is committed to identifying, investigating and preventing benefit fraud and has a zero tolerance approach to fraudulent claims. There are tight measures in force to crack down on housing and council tax
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More and more South Gloucestershire residents say they love where they live. That is the finding of a new report published by South Gloucestershire Council. The annual ‘Quality of life: better or worse?’ report for the district reveals that satisfaction with the local area as a place to live has increased over the last four years, with 85 per cent
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Police have closed the sliproad at junction 16 of the M5 (Northbound) after a serious road traffic collision. Officers were called to the scene at 1.18pm today after a two vehicle collision involving a car and a motorcycle. The motorcyclist has suffered serious injuries and has been taken to Frenchay Hospital. Diversions are in place and motorists are advised to
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To coincide with Noise Action Week, South Gloucestershire Council is encouraging the district’s licensed premises to be good neighbours and have a successful and noise free football World Cup. During Noise Action Week, which runs from 26 to 30 April, council officers will be visiting licensed premises to offer information and advice about how to avoid noise problems during World
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Stoke Gifford campaigners have launched a campaign against the introduction of parking charges at Patchway station. The station’s owners – First Great Western – have notified South Gloucestershire Council that they plan to remove the free parking currently available and introduce £3 a day charging in September. The decision comes months after First Great Western dramatically increased parking charges at
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The concerted efforts to fix the potholes on South Gloucestershire’s roads are really paying dividends as the amount of potholes repaired so far this year has already surpassed the figure for the whole of last year. Since this year’s pothole repair campaign started on 25 January, the council’s teams have already repaired over 3,300 potholes, including 1,600 in February alone,
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The first stage of the digital switchover, allowing all viewers in the West TV region to have access to Freeview began this week. The switchover is a two-stage process which began on Wednesday 24 March and will complete on Wednesday 7 April, making Freeview available for all viewers who receive their signal from a relay transmitter. The vast majority of
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South Gloucestershire Council has started a £600,000 programme of improvements to the district’s libraries. Extensions to the existing facilities will be taking place at Bradley Stoke, Hanham and Winterbourne libraries and later in the year Kingswood Library will have an upgrade to its interior. Since many of the libraries were built new services have been introduced such as internet access,
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South Gloucestershire Council recently carried out a routine inspection of mobile food businesses in the district. The aim of the initiative was to check that the operators were complying with regulations and offering the best possible service to residents. During the inspection 13 late night food vans were visited. Licensing officers discovered a number of licensing breaches including the late
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