Witnesses are being sought following a serious road traffic collision on Hatchet Road in Stoke Gifford. At around 8am on Monday morning (19th March) a collision occurred between a motorcyclist and a pedestrian. The 26-year-old pedestrian suffered a head injury and was taken to hospital where he remains. Hatchet Road was closed in both directions as a result of the
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Police appeal for information after incidents involving faded red car
Police are investigating two reports of incidents involving a faded red car in the Stoke Gifford and Frenchay area yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 13th March). Officers had two separate calls from concerned members of the public. The first caller had seen a boy aged about eight, with light brown hair and a gap in his front teeth shouting from the window
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Residents object to Parsons Avenue Indian takeaway proposal
A planning application to convert a vacant shop unit in Parsons Avenue into an Indian takeaway has attracted a mass of objections from concerned local residents. Formerly trading as the ‘Just Dogs’ grooming parlour, the unit has been empty for a number of months. It stands in a block of two units, the other being occupied by Shipway Gents’ Barbers.
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Olympus Theatre to welcome ‘The Vampire’
The award-winning Bristol Opera returns to the Olympus Theatre in Stoke Gifford this spring with a new production of ‘The Vampire’. Nominated for the Rose Bowl Award for Best Opera in 2009, 2010 and 2011 (winning the award in 2009 and 2010), Bristol Opera presents its 2012 production of ‘The Vampire’ by Heinrich Marschner, sung in English with an orchestra.
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Abbeywood reports “positive feedback” from Ofsted
The headteacher of Abbeywood Community School, recently placed into ‘special measures’ by Ofsted, says he has received “positive feedback” from an inspector who visited the school last week. Writing in the latest edition of the school newsletter, Dave Baker reports: “We had a visit from Ofsted on Tuesday last week; an inspector visited for the day in order to look
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Academy footballers help launch charity walk
Players from Bristol Academy Women’s FC, based at the WISE campus in Stoke Gifford, have helped launch the build up to this year’s Midnight Walk charity event. Women from across Greater Bristol are being urged to ‘Love Your Hospice’ by enrolling on a fun, night time walk around the city. Called the St Peter’s Hospice Midnight Walk, the event takes
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Showband to feature in British Legion concert
The Stoke Gifford branch of the Royal British Legion is staging an evening of musical entertainment on Saturday (25th February) to raise funds for its vitally important welfare work. Music will be provided by the Westerly Showband, which will treat concert-goers to a programme of wonderful music, some Gershwin classics and favourite songs of yesteryear. Band Leader: Chris Harris; Vocalist:
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Champagne reception held to welcome Busy Bees Nursery
Leapfrog Day Nursery in Simmonds View, Stoke Gifford, has officially become a Busy Bees Nursery – five years after the previous proprietors were acquired by Busy Bees Group in 2007. Bradley Stoke Mayor Cllr Ben Walker was invited to officially re-open the nursery under its new branding at a champagne reception held yesterday (Thursday 9th February). The Mayor was given
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Government wants Abbeywood School to become academy
Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School, which was recently put into ‘special measures’ by Ofsted, has unveiled plans to turn into an academy – according to a report in today’s Bristol Evening Post. The paper says the secondary school could re-open in September as part of the Olympus Academy Trust, which was formed at the beginning of the year to take
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Green light for Filton Triangle rail depot
Members of a South Gloucestershire Council committee have voted to approve a controversial planning application from Hitachi Rail to build a train maintenance depot on land known as the ‘Filton Triangle’ in Stoke Gifford. The proposed depot, required as part of the project to electrify the main line between London and Cardiff, had been opposed by hundreds of Stoke Gifford
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