Plans to halve staff numbers at the Ashfield prison facility in Pucklechurch will come as a ‘hammer blow’ to the local community, according to the village’s campaigning councillors. Serco Group plc – the contractors who manage and operate the facility – have announced 194 job losses as part of wider plans spearheaded by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), part
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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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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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A major remodelling of Pucklechurch CE VC primary school has started in the last few weeks after a long-running campaign by local councillor, Sandra Grant. The phased £1.72m remodelling and extension scheme will see permanent fit for purpose accommodation provided at the village school with construction work due to be completed in November of next year. The complex scheme involves
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Councillors are celebrating after planning approval was granted for a major remodelling of Pucklechurch CE VC primary school. The approved £1.72m remodelling and extension scheme will see permanent accommodation provided at the village school with construction work planned to start later in the summer. Planning approval had been sought for the erection of three single storey extensions to form additional
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Police in South Gloucestershire are appealing for information following reports of an attempted abduction in the Pucklechurch area. At around 1.30pm on Sunday, March 14, a 9-year-old boy was walking close to his home on Shortwood Road when its alleged that he was approached by a couple in a black car. It is believed that the man got out of
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