A THEATRE group in Chipping Sodbury is celebrating after staging the best pantomime in the South West. Sodbury Players has won the prestigious Rose Bowl award for best pantomime for a second year running. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was
TWO defeats in the past week have seen City drift further from safety in League One and the pressure really is now mounting on boss Sean O’Driscoll. Six-hundred-and-twenty City supporters travelled to Crewe last Saturday – a very impressive number
POLICE investigating a suspected arson attack at a family home in Filton have recovered a petrol can at the scene. Detectives looking into the fire, which was started in a car parked on a driveway to a property in Kipling Road, have sent the can
WORSHIPPERS in Charfield who succeeded in rescuing their beloved church from ruin against all odds came together to celebrate the small miracle.Nearly 100 parishioners packed out the village's recently refurbished Congregational Church for a much-anticipated
DURSLEY Operatic and Dramatic Society are celebrating after winning a coveted prize for stage lighting in the annual Rose Bowl awards. The society, popularly known as the DODS, won the stage electrics award for technical achievement for their
TV TALENT show singers are taking centre stage at Yate’s Christmas lights switch on this year. The X Factor’s Misha B, Lorna Simpson and Shelley Smith and Britain’s Got Talent finalists Loveable Rogues will perform at a concert in Yate Shopping
POLICE officers have praised members of the public in Marshfield whose actions led to an arrest after a suspected burglary. Avon and Somerset police were called to a report of suspicious behaviour at a house in High Street, Marshfield, at about
South West One WestChard 18 Thornbury 21 AN INJURY time Rob Higgitt try earned Thornbury their first away win since January. Sound defence and two more tries from Ed Sheldon and the boot of Tim Stephens completed a profitable afternoon for Thornbury.
A MYSTERIOUS plant which shot up to 5ft in the space of a few weeks in the middle of his garden has left a Thornbury resident puzzled.Alvin Allsopp, from Kington Lane, was baffled to find the seedling burst through and steadily bud.Intrigued, he tended
A YATE company has been fined thousands of pounds after a worker suffered serious injuries when he fell from a roof. Red Kite Baby Company Limited, an online baby equipment stockist and brand developer, was fined £10,000 for failing to ensure the
THE diggers have moved in at Hambrook Primary School where a multi-million pound project is underway to modernise the Victorian building. South Gloucestershire Council is funding £3.5 million project which include a new extension and refurbishment
VILLAGERS celebrated the completion of a long-awaited £200,000 sports pavilion. More than 150 people came to look around the new Uley Playing Field Pavilion on Sunday, October 20. A display inside the new premises showcased the best of Uley
TWO friends stood up for a gruelling 24 hours to raise money for a cancer charity. James Brown, 25, from Dursley and 20-year-old Laura Harvey, from Coaley, joined hundreds of people around the country in the Stand up to Cancer event organised by
BUS users in Thornbury and Almondsbury are set to see major improvements to their journeys into the city thanks to a £1.3 million cash injection from government.The West of England Partnership has been awarded the sum as part of the Department for
MADNESS – one of our great British institutions. With all their wacky dancing, Camden accents and unique blend of ska, reggae and calypso, the umpteen-piece band have always been completely unmistakable. So it’s no wonder there is a musical in
