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• Cash boost for youth cafe

  YOUNGSTERS in Yate hoping for a new youth caf have been given a huge boost - nearly half a million pounds. read more

• Hundreds sign petition

  TRADERS protesting against double yellow lines in Chipping Sodbury town centre handed a 500-name petition to Sodbury Town Council on Tuesday. read more

• Reclassification os 'counterproductive'

  SIR - The Gazette (February 6) reports that cannabis has been downgraded to class C, but remains illegal. read more

• United hit for six by strong City side

  Bristol City 6 Mangotsfield United 0 read more

• Councils should tackle congestion

  SIR - We would like to take this opportunity to offer our full support to the residents of Frenchay and Hambrook in wholeheartedly opposing proposals to impose a park and ride next to the M32 and on their communities. read more

• Imed's onboard

  It might not be everyone's idea of tennis weather, but at Rodway Hill Tennis Centre, based at Mangotsfield School, preparations for the new season are well under way. read more

• Sort It - a success?

  SIR - I refer to your article (Gazette, February 6) referring to South Gloucestershire Council's joint scheme with SITA. read more

• Road closes for repairs to drains

  DISRUPTION is on the cards in Easter Compton next week when the main route through the village closes for drainage system repairs. read more

• Council steps over the line

  TRADERS in Chipping Sodbury are furious that shoppers, just wanting to buy a few essentials, will soon be fined for parking their cars on the road. read more

• The safest way is zero mph

  SIR - I read with dismay (Gazette, February 6) about the decision by South Gloucestershire councillors to impose yet another speed limit reduction on the last remaining stretch of national limit on the A38 between Thornbury and Bristol. The reason once again is about reducing accidents. read more

• Weekend Picture February 13, 2004

  A view looking across the Severn Vale with the striking spire of St Mary the Virgin Church, Lower Almondsbury, in the foreground Picture by John Anyon GJA101H04 read more

• Hundreds sign petition

  TRADERS protesting against double yellow lines in Chipping Sodbury town centre handed a 500-name petition to Sodbury Town Council on Tuesday. read more

• Weekend Picture February 13, 2004

  A view looking across the Severn Vale with the striking spire of St Mary the Virgin Church, Lower Almondsbury, in the foreground Picture by John Anyon GJA101H04 read more

• School in crisis

  SEVERN Beach Primary School has gone into special measures following a devastating Ofsted report branding it ineffective, inadequately led and managed and poor value for money. read more

• Explain cap threat, say Tories

  SOUTH Gloucestershire Conservatives have condemned the government's threat to cap a council tax rise and have invited the minister responsible to visit the council and explain his reasons. read more

• Park 'n' ride still a threat

  HAMBROOK residents breathed a sigh of relief this week as the threat of a park and ride in the village was lifted. read more

• Listen to our senior citizens

  SIR - When will the government listen to senior citizens? Many have sought to enlighten them on just one of the many areas where the needs (not wants) of senior citizens are not being met. There is a very real need for free bus travel for all senior citizens. read more

• 'Vigilantes' are not needed here

  SIR - Your anonymous Wickwar correspondent's disinclination to be associated (Gazette, January 30) with the world 'vigilante', described in my 1990s Concise Dictionary as "a member of a vigilance committee or similar body" may moderately be offered the culturally odious, though accurate, alternative, 'a Noah's'. read more

• Pensioner killed

  A MAN who died in a two-vehicle crash in the Cotswolds on Monday was named as Henry Bambridge, 83, of Bristol Road, Frampton Cotterell. read more

• Special event almost missed

  IF it had not been for a chance discovery, members of Yate Methodist Church could well have missed this year's 100th anniversary. Pam Ovens, senior steward at the church, was pouring through documents when she saw papers stating the original Methodist building in Yate was erected in 1904 - and so began months of research. KIRSTY RAMSDEN spoke to Mrs Ovens about the celebrations her discovery has sparked - and a family connection uncovered. read more

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