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• Councillors demand action

  PARISH leaders in Almondsbury are pressing for action over further alleged planning breaches at a controversial travellers site in the village. read more

• Chairty welcomes hearing check

  THE country's medical charity for deaf and hard of hearing people, Deafness Research UK, this week welcomed the introduction of a telephone hearing check for people who suspect they might have a hearing loss. read more

• Threat to future of local food factory

  THE FUTURE of a Yate factory hangs in the balance this week after it was announced that the company that owns it has gone bust. read more

• Business booms - for now

  CHRISTMAS and New Year trade in Thornbury appears to have held up well against competing shopping centres - but there are dire warnings for the future if parking charges are introduced to shore up council finances read more

• Green Belt is 'victim of bureaucrats'

  SOUTH Gloucestershire Conservative Councillors have called for control over housebuilding levels to be restored to local councils by the abolition of the Regional Assembly. read more

• Till-jingling Christmas for shopping centre

  EXHAUSTED retailers at Yate Shopping Centre are celebrating after a record breaking Christmas. read more

• Yate and Chipping Sodbury Diary

  Yate, Chipping Sodbury and district read more

• Police put the brakes on Christmas drink-drivers

  POLICE caught more than 200 drink-drivers during the Christmas period in Avon and Somerset. read more

• Hogweed Trotters' guide to fitness

  SIMON Spedding was the sole representative of Hogweed Trotters in the Hangover 10k at Kewstoke on Monday, January 2. Simon, who was not in the least bit hungover, finished in a respectable time of 37:22. Despite this, his New Year resolution is that he must do better and lose more weight. read more

• Best in British folk

  THE tenth Cheltenham Folk Festival (February 9-12) will be a weekend of warm and wild music, enough to tempt us all to abandon our mid-winter blues. read more

• Looking to lead the pack

  RUGBY teams in the Gazette region resume their season from tomorrow with everything still to play for. read more

• Big Read for whole town

  AN ambitious experiment to involved the whole of Wotton-under-Edge and district in the reading of the same novel is launched today, Friday. read more

• Almondsbury Town keep leaking goals

  Hellenic League Premier Didcot Town 4 Almondsbury Town 0 read more

• Tytherington rock the Winterbourne boat

  Hellenic League Division One West Tytherington Rocks 4 Winterbourne United 2 read more

• Sofa so bad, so get out and learn a craft

  A STIMULATING alternative to spending the long winter evenings sitting on the sofa in front of the television is being offered at Prema, the arts, crafts and theatrical venue at Uley near Dursley. read more

• Man takes action to prevent drownings

  CHILDREN are at risk of drowning in an Almondsbury stream after council workmen failed to replace a fence, a local man has claimed. read more

• Yate set themselves up for tricky fixtures

  YATE enjoyed a six-point haul over last weekend at the expense of Gloucester City and Cirencester Town. read more

• Homeless Mahin is admitted to hospital

  MAHIN, the homeless woman whose plight was highlighted by the Gazette when she arrived in South Gloucestershire at the end of last year, is in a special unit after being sectioned under the Mental Health Act. read more

• Search for lost dog goes on

  A RANGEWORTHY woman cancelled Christmas after a desperate search for her missing puppy proved futile. read more

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