IT was more than a decade in the making and cost millions of pounds, but Yate finally got its own cinema to rival out-of-town leisure complexes.

Cineworld opened the doors to its ‘no expenses spared’ six-screen multiplex, a week ahead of schedule, in time to show Captain America: Civil War, and hundreds of excited movie-goers tested out the new facilities over the Bank Holiday weekend.

THIEVES used gas canisters as bombs to blow up a cash machine in Yate in a middle-of-the-night raid.

Residents in Station Road were woken by the huge bang at 3.30am after gas canisters were used to break open and explode the cashpoint outside a Tesco Express store.

A CRIME wave in Chipping Sodbury sparked fear among elderly residents and traders after an unprecedented number of break-ins and attempted burglaries.

Over two consecutive nights seven homes were either broken into or burglars tried to gain access and in one worrying incident, a 92-year-old woman woke in the middle of the night to find an intruder in her bedroom.