Teenage volunteers helped police and Trading Standards officers check whether licensees were prepared to sell alcohol to children. The operation on Friday April 16 2010 checked a dozen off-licences and convenience stores in Hanham, Kingswood, Oldland Common, Soundwell, Staple Hill, Warmley and Willsbridge. The two clearly underage volunteers – one male, one female – were only able to buy alcohol
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Police are appealing for witnesses after some friends were assaulted on a playing field. The incident happened at around 8.20pm on Friday 9 April, 2010. Eight friends in their late teens and early twenties were at Redfield Edge Playing Fields in Oldland Common when they were approached by a group of up to 15 men who were aged 15 or
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Police in South Gloucestershire are warning householders to be on the alert after recovering two cars stolen during burglaries. Two homes in Oldland Common and Longwell Green were burgled this week, and on each occasion the thieves used the householder’s own car to make off having found the keys. Overnight Tuesday February 23 to Wednesday February 24 thieves broke into
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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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Calls by South Gloucestershire’s Conservative councillors to scrap the region’s controversial planning blueprint have won the backing of a senior Conservative MP. Grant Shapps MP, the Shadow Minister for Housing, promised the district that a future Conservative government would scrap Labour’s Regional Spatial Strategy, as he visited the area this week to meet local Green Belt campaigners. His pledge comes
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Police investigating a theft from a car and shed in Hallen on Thursday night, October 15, have recovered the property and arrested a man. Patrolling officers stopped a van in Oldland Common on Friday October 16 2009 and seized car audio equipment and other items suspected of being stolen. A 21-year-old man from Oldland Common has been released on police
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South Gloucestershire Council’s planning chief has criticised the government for claiming that its controversial planning blueprint should be implemented, despite the document being in ‘legal limbo’. The Council has been told by the Government that: “The RSS [Regional Spatial Strategy] has reached such an advanced stage that we [the Government] would expect it now to be given considerable weight in
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