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Tree festival to be better than ever

9:20am Sunday 20th July 2008

NOW IN its 10th year, the Westonbirt Festival of the Tree promises to be better than ever.

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Hospital bugs take dramatic drop

1:50pm Friday 18th July 2008

HOSPITAL infection rates at Frenchay and Southmead Hospitals have dropped dramatically, new figures have revealed.

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Forget the 9 to 5, running a hotel is the business

1:40pm Friday 18th July 2008

EVER fancied giving up your day job to run your own hotel?

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Volunteers take medical care to Kenya

8:30am Saturday 19th July 2008

TELEPHONING your doctor to make an appointment when you are feeling under the weather is something that can often be taken for granted.

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Council celebrates successful year

10:00am Saturday 19th July 2008

SOUTH Gloucestershire Council has been celebrating a successful 12 months.

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First time buyers to get helping hand

8:30am Sunday 20th July 2008

WANNABE first time buyers are being given the chance to get a foot on the housing ladder.

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Fire station is on the way up

11:59am Friday 18th July 2008

A NEW community fire station for Dursley is on course to open in Spring next year.

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Cancer survivor says mobile chemotherapy unit is amazing

8:00am Friday 18th July 2008

A RETIRED nurse who suffered cancer twice is fundraising for the Gloucestershire mobile chemotherapy unit, which is the only one of its kind in the country.

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Schoolchildren brighten up building site

3:30pm Thursday 17th July 2008

A TOWN centre building site has undergone a colourful transformation thanks to schoolchildren in Yate.

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Plans for conservation park revealed

2:00pm Thursday 17th July 2008

PLANS have been revealed for the country’s first wildlife conservation park due to be built at Compton Greenfield.

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Fears grow for future of Assembly

Updated 3:20pm Sunday 20th July 2008

Concerns for the future of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government heightened after a senior politician said the Assembly may need to be recalled from summer recess.

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Swinging 60s feel-good musical

SHOUT, the ultimate 60s feel-good musical, comes to the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on Monday, June 16.

Play is a hilarious study of human relationships

NATHANIEL Parker and Christopher Timothy go back to school as they star in Simon Gray's comedy Quartermaine's Terms - at the Theatre Royal Bath until Saturday, June 14.

ON THE back of the success of director Paul Andrew William's first film London to Brighton (2006), which won several awards including Best New Director at the Edinburgh Film festival, comes a very different offering.

CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR (15)

SET in the early 1980s this film is based on the true story of hard drinking womaniser Charlie Wilson, who also had a penchant for coke. He was the liberal Democrat congressman from Texas said to have been totally responsible for organising the biggest undercover operation in the history of the United States. This involved supplying the Afghan Mujahideen with arms during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the success of which unfortunately was the beginning of a very tricky future for the Afghan nation.