Three stores sold alcohol to under-18s in a test-purchase operation run by police and South Gloucestershire Trading Standards. Two clearly under-age girls tried to buy alcohol in eight off licences and convenience stores in Downend, Kingswood, Mangotsfield and Warmley in the operation on Friday 5th November 2010. The teenage volunteers were able to buy alcohol in two Kingswood stores and
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Budding young engineers from five schools in Bristol and South Gloucestershire are set to take up the task of researching, designing and building solutions to real engineering problems. Hanham High School (Bristol) will host the Faraday engineering challenge day on Thursday 4th November. Teams from Yate International Academy (Bristol), Mangotsfield School (South Glos), Sir Bernard Lovell School (South Glos) and
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South Gloucestershire police are warning moped riders to lock up following the arrest of three young men for moped theft. In the early hours of Wednesday 22nd September patrolling officers spotted a Piaggio NRG moped which had been stolen from Staple Hill. The bike was found abandoned near the cycle track at Mangotsfield and officers arrested three young men nearby.
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South Gloucestershire Council’s Conservative administration has given the green light to transport schemes designed to improve road safety and beat traffic congestion across the district. As part of this financial year’s Local Transport Capital Programme, building work will start on the district’s first park and ride facility – a £1.2m scheme at Parkway station. Already-announced changes to the controversial 2+
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Police are appealing for information following an attempted robbery in Mangotsfield on Sunday (March 21) At around 1.00am a man was walking along Rodway common when a man approached him with a weapon and demanded money and his mobile phone. The offender ran off after a scuffle and the victim was left unhurt and no property was stolen. Police would
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Mangotsfield councillors and residents have handed hundreds of petition signatures to the Leader of South Gloucestershire Council in defence of the local Green Belt. The petitions are in response to a planning application for 180 new houses on Green Belt land at Cossham Street in Mangotsfield. The developers – Taylor Wimpey UK – have submitted the plans on the back
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Police are appealing for information after a 15-year-old boy was assaulted, while cycling on the Bristol and Bath Railway Path on Tuesday, December 8. At around 3.30pm the victim was cycling along the path between Staple Hill and Warmley, near to Mangotsfield Station, when he was approached by another male. It’s alleged that the suspect knocked the victim off his
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Police are appealing for witnesses following an assault of a pizza delivery man in the Mangotsfield area. At around 9pm on Monday, October 26 the victim was delivering pizza to an address in Berkeley Close, Mangotsfield when three unknown men approached and asked for the pizza. When he did not give them it, one of the offenders kneed the victim
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Police are appealing for information following an attempted robbery and a robbery on Thursday 15th October 2009 which we believe may be linked. The first incident occurred at approximately 3.10pm in Mangotsfield, when a 12 year old boy was walking towards steps which lead to Bridge Road. He was approached by four men riding mountain bikes. One of the men
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South Gloucestershire Council has opened a public consultation on plans for a cycle route between Mangotsfield and Yate. Cycling City Route 15 will provide a new north/south link between the Bristol & Bath path at Coxgrove Hill and Station Road, Yate. The route will generally follow the rail corridor using disused railway track, run along field boundaries and existing public
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