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• Future's bright for Yate school

  "THIS is a taste of things to come," was the defiant message sent out by the headteacher of King Edmund Community School at the opening of a brand new business centre. read more

• Yes, in the main we are the best

  SOUTH Gloucestershire has been named the best council in mainland England for recycling and composting household and industrial waste. read more

• Yate and Sodbury Diary

  Saturday, January 14 9am-1.30pm, Chipping Sodbury, Clock Tower. Chipping Sodbury farmers' market. Plenty of tasty fresh local produce on sale. read more

• Store cuts 700 jobs

  AROUND 700 workers are set to lose their jobs when supermarket chain Morrisons closes its Cribbs Causeway distribution depot. read more

• Resist private health

  GLOUCESTERSHIRE doctors like Andrew Seymour are speaking out against new policies that compel them to offer private sector treatment to patients while Bristol doctors are even refusing to implement the policy. This is good news for those of us who oppose both Labour and Tory moves towards privatisation. read more

• Mangotsfield grateful for Shore rescue

  Southern League Premier Division Cheshunt 2 Mangotsfield United 2 read more

• 'Help us to beat bug' plea from hospitals

  WARDS at Frenchay and Southmead Hospitals were closed this week because of the vomiting and diarrhoea virus norovirus. read more

• Christmas to be twice as light

  THORNBURY could end up with two Christmas fairs and festive lights switch-on events in 2006. read more

• Animal welfare

  I HAVE stayed with my daughter for the past two weeks in her flat in the John Grooms Building, which overlooks the long stay car park in Thornbury. read more

• Children centres

  ELEVEN children centres offering advanced childcare and support are to be set up in South Gloucestershire by 2008, the Gazette can reveal. read more

• Last gasp try stuns North

  Western Counties North League North Bristol 9 Walcot 10 read more

• Outrageous entertainment

  OUTRAGE 2006, the first of three CSF Professional Wrestling events scheduled to take place at Yate Leisure Centre this year, will go ahead on Saturday, January 28. read more

• New age ahead for old town?

  CHIPPING SODBURY'S civic leaders were split this week in a rift over whether to modernise the medieval town. read more

• 'Delightful, delovely' new show

  THREE'S Company presents a new show, singing the praises of Cole Porter. read more

• Hunting law is here to stay so get used to it or face consequences

  WHEN the first successful prosecutions are inevitably made and the Hunting Act is shown to have teeth, perhaps those disingenuously bleating on about it being 'unworkable' will shut up and take notice. New laws always need time to bed in. read more

• Hospital beds axed

  ONE in three acute hospital beds in South Gloucestershire and north Bristol will be axed if plans to downgrade Frenchay go ahead, the Gazette can reveal. read more

• School rated 'satisfactory'

  CHIPPING Sodbury School has been rated as satisfactory and told there is room for improvement by Ofsted inspectors. read more

• Museum must buy base or face closure

  A POPULAR village museum has been told by Frenchay Hospital bosses to buy its rented base within the grounds or close. read more

• Police raid heralds drugs crackdown

  SUSPECTED and known drug users in the Yate and Sodbury area were targeted this week by police intent on sending out a defiant message that drugs will not be tolerated. read more

• Comedy at dinner table

  TABLE Manners, the classic comedy by Alan Ayckbourn, is set to serve up life in a strife-torn family weekend at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday, January 24 to Saturday, January 28. read more

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