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

June 1966

IT WAS announced that Filton would be expecting a Royal visitor.

King Hussein of Jordan was announced as visiting the British Aircraft Corporation works where the Concorde supersonic airliner was in development, jointly with Sud Aviation of France.

The King was expected to see one of the prototypes under construction and inspect a mock-up of the aircraft during a two week long state visit to Britain.

IT WAS heard that work on the £2 million Almondsbury interchange was now in the final stages, and there was no doubt that it, and the M4 motorway to the Severn Bridge, would be completed in time for the official opening of the bridge by the Queen in September.

A THREE-cornered fight for the vacant Cam seat on Dursley RDC was announced after the closure on nominations, ahead of voting at the end of the month.

The candidates for the seat that was left open by the resignation from the RDC of Gilbert Elliot was between Trevor Cory Gould, Daniel George Boyd and Brian Arthur Addle.

June 1976

A ‘MYSTERY’ yellow cloud emanating from the ICI’s Severnside Works sparked off a pollution alarm.

Police followed the colourful cloud as it drifted northwards, eventually dispersing near Berkeley.

ICI immediately checked records and found the effluent from their Hallen plant was well inside the limit.

The yellow cloud proved elusive for analysts, as when they arrived at Oldbury it had gone, and it was the same story in Berkeley.

THE NEWLY elected Tytherington Parish Council welcomed their first female councillor in the 82 years of their history, when Mrs Alice Johnson took her seat.

The council agreed to call a meeting later in the year of representatives of all organisations in the village to discuss the forthcoming Queen’s silver jubilee celebrations the following year.

THE THORNBURY band were the guests of HTV at the Bath and West Show at Shepton Mallet for the second year running.

Under the musical director Mr S Bennett, the band plated for half an hour in the village green, in the centre of the showground, performing a varied programme ranging from marches, minuets, polkas and Spanish music to the Seekers and the Elephant from Carnival of Animals.