The through-route along Gipsy Patch Lane between Little Stoke and the A38 Gloucester Road has finally reopened, albeit in one direction only, following a road closure that lasted 10 months longer than originally planned. The road was closed at the railway bridge site on 6th March 2020 to permit demolition of the old narrow brick-built bridge…
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Temporary shuttle lights which had been in place at Parkway Bridge since June 2020 were removed at the start of September, coinciding with the start of the new school year and an anticipated increase in traffic levels. At the same time, footways under the bridge have been permanently widened by small amounts and a 20mph speed limit for road users introduced.
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Students at Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School have once again registered “strong” outcomes in their GCSE assessments. A spokesperson said: “Students have achieved incredibly well across the full range of GCSE and Level 2 qualifications; outcomes have been strong but so has the progress of our students from their starting points.”
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A brother and sister from Little Stoke are running the Bristol Half Marathon to raise funds for a charity which supports families that, like their own, have been affected by military suicide. The siblings’ family had their lives completely devastated in May 2020 when their brother tragically took his own life following a battle with mental health illness.
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Abbeywood Community School is celebrating strong performances across both A-Levels and vocational qualifications, with some outstanding individual performances. Students have secured places to study at many of the top universities in the country, including Oxford University, Imperial College London, Exeter University and Bristol University.
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New and remodelled bus stops have been brought into use at Bristol Parkway railway station as a £650k scheme of improvements to bus/rail interchange facilities nears completion. The project has seen upgrades to two existing bus stops and the installation of two new MetroBus-specification stops.
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced that Gipsy Patch Lane will reopen to traffic in a westbound direction only (towards the A38) from 6am on Monday 6th September 2021. The one-way system will operate between the Little Stoke Lane junction and the mini-roundabout at Rolls-Royce.
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A full closure of Gipsy Patch Lane between its junction with Little Stoke Lane and the railway bridge is scheduled to come into effect from 8pm tonight (Friday 27th August 2021). The temporary road closure is required to allow preparations to be made for the planned one-way (westbound) reopening of the road…
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Stoke Gifford’s Old School Room (OSR) Scouts have recently taken part in the Blue Peter ‘Climate Heroes’ challenge, which asked young people to become a ‘green-army’ to help tackle carbon emissions and climate change. The Scouts were asked to pledge to reduce their plastic use, save energy and plant pollinating plants.
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The firm behind a Stoke Gifford school uniform store has come under fire from scores of parents who fear they won’t have their orders fulfilled before the start of the new academic year in September. Monkhouse Schoolwear Specialists (part of F.R.Monkhouse Ltd) is the appointed sole uniform supplier for a majority of schools in the Stokes.
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