LOOKING back on some of the stories the Gazette has reported through the years...

June 1986

NO RADIOACTIVE waste from Bristol General Hospital and Bristol University would be buried at Harnhill tip in Olveston for the time being, said a spokesman for Avon County Council.

A spokesman for the council stressed that the site in Olveston was only a possible site, and, for dumping to take place, the public would have to be consulted and the Department of Environment must approve.

AROUND 40 to 50 Hallen residents mobilised forces on Saturday afternoon to ward off the threat of travellers camping on land at Fishers Farm.

For months residents had been prepared for such an event, and as soon as the convoy of around seven caravans was spotted entering the land, a “chain” phone call system was put into operation, with dozens of residents alerted in minutes.

SEVEN £1,000 bursaries were awarded to young people associated with the British aviation and aerospace industry.

The grants, designed to assist with education costs and career development, were made by the Robert Blackburn Memorial Trust, set up in 1959 in memory of the famous pioneer, with the Royal Aeronautical Society administering the awards.

June 1996

BULLIES picked an argument with a 15-year-old Thornbury student and stole a bag containing clothes while he walked through Bristol City Centre.
The student, who had not been named, was walking through Trenchard

Street with a group of friends when they were approached by a C-registration beige Ford Escort car containing four or five individuals, who asked for directions before picking an argument  with the student, before grabbing the bag and hitting him.

DISABLED people in Thornbury celebrated the inauguration of a new chair lift at the Chantry in Castle Street.

The stair lift, the first in a public building in the town, was opened by Sir John Cope, MP for Northavon.

June 2006

GAZETTE cycling team Hacks on Tracks  raced to success in aid of a local charity.

The trio of sports editor Keith Watson and reporters Liza-Jane Gillespie and Alex Ross sped to success, raising money for Yate and District Rotary Club’s appeal for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.

THE Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge secured a £198,000 grant from the government’s UK Darwin Initiative to fund a community conservation wetland project in Nepal.