Police are appealing for information about a racially aggravated assault in Patchway, north Bristol. It happened at 6am on Sunday 5th December near the Texaco service station on the A38 Gloucester Road. Two men asked a 28-year-old Polish man for directions. When he replied they racially abused him, chased him and one of them punched him in the head. The
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An important new part of South Gloucestershire’s transport infrastructure opens today (Monday 6th December). The new road, named ‘Hayes Way’, runs from the A38 near the Royal Mail depot in Patchway to the Mall at Cribbs Causeway. Cribbs Causeway is often congested during the Christmas period and it is expected this additional link to the shopping centre will help the
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The inaugural meeting of Patchway Town Council’s new youth committee was held earlier this month. The newly formed youth committee met for the first time on Monday 15th November and elected Conservative South Gloucestershire Councillor for Bradley Stoke Central and Stoke Lodge and Patchway Town Councillor, Brian Hopkinson, as Chairman. Councillors in the town aim to improve the way they
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Police are appealing for information after a pedestrian was assaulted in the Asda car park on Highwood Lane, Patchway. The incident occurred at around 8pm on Wednesday 27th October 2010. The victim, a 29-year-old man, was walking alone though the car park when he noticed a dark, five-door car driving carelessly. He challenged the driver about his behaviour and was
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Work will be starting shortly to install a raised level crossing on Coniston Road, Patchway. The crossing will enable cyclists and pedestrians with mobility issues or pushchairs to cross the road more easily. In order to carry out this work a temporary road closure will be in force on Coniston Road, Patchway from its junction with Waterside Drive to its
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Police are warning trades people to be on the alert to thieves targeting vans in South Gloucestershire and Bristol and stealing either the vehicles or tools. Officers say the thieves, often themselves in a white Ford Transit van, are targeting vehicles at building sites or parked at builders’ merchants and large hardware stores. The thieves have been described as white
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A Patchway man has pleaded guilty to eight charges under the Trade Marks Act 1994 involving sales of pirated film boxsets via eBay. Russell Painter, 27, of Falcon Drive, Patchway appeared at Northavon Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 27 July and admitted selling and possessing pirated copies of The Sopranos boxsets as well as other copied boxset titles including Stargate and
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Police are appealing for information to try to find whoever has daubed racist graffiti on property in the Patchway area of Bristol. Two shops in Rodway Road and a garage door nearby have been damaged. PC Carie Munden of Staple Hill police, investigating the offences, said: “I would like to hear any information, however small, in regard to the identity
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Police are appealing for information and witnesses following a racially aggravated incident in the Patchway area. On two separate occasions, one on Thursday July 8 and another on Monday July 12, graffiti of a racist nature was sprayed onto a garage door in Cavendish Road. Police are treating this as racially aggravated criminal damage Detective Sergeant Mark Goss from Staple
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South Gloucestershire Council has been awarded a grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to develop a project which aims to get local communities involved in archaeology. The HLF has given £21,000 towards the establishment of the South Gloucestershire Community Archaeology Research Project (SCARP). The award will be used to help establish community groups and to train members of these
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