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 February 15 until
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Teenage volunteers have helped police and South Gloucestershire Council Trading Standards officers check whether stores will sell alcohol to under-18s. The operation, on Friday January 29 2010, focused on off-licences and convenience stores in Cadbury Heath, Kingswood, Oldland Common, Warmley and Willsbridge. Nine premises were checked by the volunteers aged 14 and 16. In three of them, the youngsters were
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a fatal road traffic collision in Kingswood. The incident occurred on Monday 25th January 2010 at around 5.45pm in Soundwell Road at the junction with Leicester Square. A motocycle was in collision with a Ford Mondeo. The motorcyclist died later in hospital. He has been named as 16-year-old Brendon Smith of Kingswood.
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Police are trying to trace the owner of a bike after it was left at the scene of an altercation in Kingswood yesterday, Tuesday January 19 2010. Police were called by three school girls reporting seeing a van pull up and the driver scuffle with a young man on a bicycle on Woodside Road. Officers arrived at the scene to
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Police are advising people this New Year to check that any taxi they book or get into is properly licensed. It follows the theft of a taxi sign from the top of a car parked on a driveway in Court Road, Kingswood on the evening of Sunday, December 27. The sign has the number 748 on it. Police want people
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Police are appealing for witnesses to an assault and robbery outside an off licence in New Cheltenham Road, Kingswood, South Gloucestershire on Monday, December 21. At around 7.30pm a group of youths were throwing snowballs at each other and possibly at passing cars when a silver Audi TT drew up. Most of the group of youths ran off. One 16-year-old
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Pupils and staff at St Stephen’s Infant School in Kingswood are enjoying their new green accolade: Yellow Pages Recycling Champions for England 2009. They are also looking forward to spending their well-earned £1,000 prize money. Fifty-two schools in South Gloucestershire took part in the Yellow Woods Challenge this year, collecting a total of 16,039 Yellow Pages between them. SITA South
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Police are appealing for information after a man was assaulted at Tesco’s in Kingswood. At around 8pm on Thursday November 19 a security guard at the petrol station was assaulted by a man. Two other men helped the offender and he ran off. Police are now appealing for driver and passenger in a red car to come forward as they
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a man was assaulted in Kingswood. The incident occurred on Sunday 15th November 2009 at around 12.45am when the male victim, aged 22, was in Barcelona Bar, Kingswood. He was involved in an altercation with another man who hit him in the face with a glass. The offender is described as a
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Residents living in priority neighbourhoods across South Gloucestershire are being encouraged to help shape the areas where they live. A series of ‘drop in’ sessions have been arranged by South Gloucestershire Council to help inform future action in these neighbourhoods, which have been identified by residents and the Council as places where resources could be directed most efficiently in one
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