Young people in South Gloucestershire will be making waves on the radio during the half-term break. They will be broadcasting again as ‘Multi FM’ on 87.7 FM from the Old School youth centre in Kingswood, which is run by South Gloucestershire Council. The young people will be hosting a mixture of interviews, live music and songs from Monday 21st to
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Staff at Kingswood Library are holding a celebration to mark the library’s 50th birthday and they hope that some of the first people through the door when it first opened in the 1960s will be able to join them. The High Street library opened to the public in February 1961 and has provided an excellent facility for the community to
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Two new road surfaces, one of which is only a little over a year old, have started to break-up due to the bad weather. Gages Road in Kingswood was resurfaced by South Gloucestershire Council in two phases during 2009. A stretch from its junction with Courtney Road to Westons Way was resurfaced in March 2009 and the remainder to its
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Discussions are currently taking place between the Cabot Learning Federation, South Gloucestershire Council and Governors at Kingsfield School about the school becoming part of the Cabot Learning Federation of Academies in September. Kingsfield School, based in Kingswood, could be the fifth school to join the federation which already includes John Cabot Academy, Bristol Brunel Academy and Bristol Metropolitan Academy, with
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A local council has finally taken on responsibility for a children’s play area in Kingswood eight years after it was built. The play area at the corner of Oakridge Close and Jubilee Place was built at the end of 2002 by Western Challenge Housing Association as part of a small development of eight houses. The land, formerly Council garages and
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after an attempted robbery and assault in Kingswood. The incident occurred on Thursday 13th January 2011 at around 7pm at the bottom of London Street. The male victim was asked for his belongings and was then violently assaulted. The offenders are described as a white man aged 18-19 years old and around 6ft
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Police are warning motorists in South Gloucestershire to keep an eye on their car keys after recovering four stolen cars in an operation in Kingswood. Officers from the Priority Crime Team found the cars being stripped down when they searched a unit at the Douglas Road Industrial Estate on Wednesday 5th January 2011. The cars included a Vauxhall Corsa taken
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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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A major road in Kingswood is set to be resurfaced starting next week, it has been announced. Court Road, which links Hanham Road with Mount Hill Road, is to be resurfaced by South Gloucestershire Council from 10th to 19th January. Local councillors for the area had been campaigning for several years for the road to be resurfaced and have welcomed
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Police and South Gloucestershire Council targeted pubs in an under-age alcohol test-purchase operation for the first time on Friday 10th December 10. Two 16-year-old girls volunteered to try to buy alcohol at six pubs – two in Emersons Green and the rest in Kingswood, Longwell Green, Pucklechurch and Soundwell. Neighbourhood Inspector Kevin Thatcher said: “I’m delighted that these clearly under-age
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