Little Stoke looks set to lose three of its bus services within the next two months following the announcement that Wessex Connect is to withdraw the U7, U8 and 482 from Sunday 20th May. The U7 is a daytime and evening service operating between Cribbs Causeway and the Frenchay campus of the University of the West of England (UWE). In
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City of Bristol College’s plan to build a new Engineering Department building on vacant land in front of Abbeywood Community School would lead to gridlock on local roads, according to local residents and school management. The College has applied for permission to make alterations to its existing Parkway Transport Technology Centre and erect a new building to house its aeronautics,
Continue readingWitnesses 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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