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• Rocks' spot of bother

  GFA Trophy Tytherington Rocks 1 Winterbourne United 1 aet (Winterbourne won 4-2 on penalties) read more

• Council column to keep you informed

  THESE notes, prepared by Thornbury Town Council, are intended to provide a more detailed insight into the work the council does for the town. read more

• Hospital reminder

  WITHIN hours of Friday's campaign launch, officials from South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust contacted the Gazette with a pledge to retain in-patient beds at Thornbury Hospital. We reproduce its news release in full for readers to cut out and keep" in case the trust should ever need reminding of what it said on October 22, 2004. read more

• We don't enjoy killing spectacle

  SIR - I can categorically answer "Yes" to Underdog's question (Gazette, October 22). read more

• Plea to lift threat of school closures

  SOUTH Gloucestershire's top Tory councillor is appealing to education planners to back moves to lift a threat of closure facing cherished village schools. read more

• Helping campaign to keep post office open

  NORTHAVON Labour Party members have been campaigning, together with their prospective parliamentary candidate Pat Gardener to help residents save the Frampton Cotterell Post Office from closure. read more

• Tables are turned on hunters

  SIR - How one's heart bleeds for the hunting fraternity! read more

• Store changeover will be 'seemless'

  SUPERMARKET chiefs have pledged a "seamless" change when Thornbury's Safeway supermarket becomes a Somerfield store. read more

• Off to see Santa

  THREE terminally ill children will be sent to Lapland for what could be their last Christmas, thanks to the christening of a baby from Coalpit Heath. read more

• Foolish to pursue closures

  SIR - I would like to offer my sincere congratulations to our small schools. Staff, governors and parents have run a superb campaign to save our small schools from the threat of closure. read more

• Big book deal for author

  THERE is good news this month for parents who hope to see their young children immersed in a book. read more

• We should be protecting those who protected us

  SIR - With Remembrance Day shortly upon us it is right that we turn our attention to remembering those people who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect our rights and values. There can be nothing more powerful than to give up your life so that others might enjoy freedom from tyranny and cruelty. read more

• Coming on Friday in the Gazette . . .

  Gazette backs campaign to save Thornbury Hospital read more

• Mike is voted best for pork pies

  HATS off to Alveston butcher Mike Perry - his pork pies have been voted Best in the West. read more

• Goodbye to our open land

  SIR - This part of old Patchway has been badly let down again by councillors and South Gloucestershire planners. read more

• A heartfelt plea to save hospital

  THORNBURY Hospital will always have a special place in the heart of Tina Mitchell whose husband Paul died in Henderson ward last year at the age of just 37. read more

• Welcome back to an old friend

  FROM shabby and dated to bright, airy and thoroughly modernised, Shire Way Community Centre has had a face-lift. read more

• Tory visit for bakery

  CONSERVATIVE Shadow Agriculture Secretary James Paice visited the 750-acre Frys Farm at St Catherine's, near Marshfield, on Wednesday to hear about specific local problems with DEFRA. read more

• Church will be for community

  A YATE church is to embark on a million-pound revamp to create a state-of-the-art facility for the whole community. The church complex's array of facilities will vary from an area set up for television production to a room to serve 50 meals to elderly people each day. Gazette feature writer Kirsty Ramsden met the Rev Paul James, pastor of Gateway Revival Church, to find out about its plans. read more

• Nice to see smart outfits

  SIR - May I say how nice it is to go shopping in Thornbury between 12 noon and 2pm. read more

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