A man is due to appear in court today (Monday 27th June) following the death of a man in Charfield on Friday night. The 46-year-old from Kidderminster has been charged with the murder of Marcus Dunkerton, of Thames Close, Charfield. The death is being linked to a prior altercation at the Railway Tavern in the village.
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Charfield, Rangeworthy and Wickwar are the latest South Gloucestershire villages to benefit from a multi-million pound superfast broadband partnership between South Gloucestershire Council, Wiltshire Council, and BT. The first homes and businesses in these villages will be able to order fibre broadband services by summer 2014. The £35.6 million project, which is also funded by the UK Government’s Superfast Britain
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South Gloucestershire Council has made a series of grants to groups across the district to help strengthen and improve communities. This financial year, more than £38,000 has been distributed in two phases by the council to Safer and Stronger Community Groups (SSCGs) to fund crime prevention initiatives and to strengthen and improve the quality of community life. In this latest
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Police are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic collision in Charfield, South Gloucestershire involving two lorries in which one of the drivers died. It happened at around 2.30pm on Tuesday, December 8 on the B4058 Wootton Road. For some reason one of the lorries, a Scania, drifted into the path of another lorry coming the other way and collided
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