A COFFEE shop in Thornbury celebrated its reopening, more than a year after it was destroyed in a fire.

Heritage in Thornbury’s popular coffee shop was ravaged by the blaze in September 2015, which also claimed the gift shop.

While the gift shop was able to be restored after a few months, the damage sustained to the coffee shop was so severe that it required an extensive and lengthy rebuild.

Rather than holding a special opening ceremony, as it did when the gift shop reopened, the coffee shop opened for business yesterday as if it were any other day.

THE FAMILY of a two-year-old girl from Thornbury fighting for her chance to walk appealed to the public to join their £80,000 campaign.

Esmé “Ezzy” Hodge was born 11 weeks premature and diagnosed earlier in the year with Cerebral Palsy, requiring her to use a walking frame or wheelchair.

As a result, her parents Angela and Matt founded the “Ezzy’s Wish to Walk” campaign, aiming to raise the sum to send her to America for a revolutionary surgery and physiotherapy that could see her take her first steps.