Gazette Series | Yate and Sodbury features

Medics claim flats plan would threaten services

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:17:00 +0100

PLANS for flats on a shopping centre car park in Yate could jeopardise services offered by the local dental and doctor surgeries, practise managers have warned.

Big cash boost for IT group

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:00:00 +0100

A FLURRY of recent grants awarded to an over 50's IT group in Frampton Cotterell has raised hopes of soon bringing lessons in to people's homes.

Yate, Chipping Sodbury and District Diary

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:34:00 +0100

Saturday, July 29 10am-1pm, Chipping Sodbury Old Grammar School. Avon Wildlife Trust book sale and coffee morning. 10.30am-12.30pm. Westerleigh Village Hall, Westerleigh. WI coffee morning. There will be tea, cakes and a raffle. 2pm-5pm. Frenchay Tucket Museam, Frenchay. Vintage Vehicle Extravaganza event. Classic motors on display. 2.30pm, Frenchay, Frenchay Hospital. Frenchay and Hambrook Holticultural Society Flower Show. Tuesday, August 1 7.30pm, Yate Heritage Centre, Yate. A lecture on the history and archaeology of Ram Hill Colliery. Booking essential. Call 01454 862200.

Planning chiefs reject application to build units alongside medieval barn

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:47:00 +0100

PLANS to set up a light industrial park alongside a medieval barn in Winterbourne have been thrown out by council planning chiefs.

Milky way is the only way for this starman

Fri, 26 May 2006 11:59:00 +0100

ASTRONOMERS in South Gloucestershire are hard to come by. With no space station in sight and Jodrell Bank hundreds of miles away, it may come as something of a surprise to find a local astronomer based in Rudgeway. Gazette reporter Alex Ross visited the village's very own star gazer to find out more.