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

January 1966

TO COPE with the rapid expansion at the Gazette’s printing works in Dursley, it was announced that a brand new factory would be erected.

In addition, a new Press had been installed to enable the production of bigger and better newspapers.

POLICE warnings to motorists in South Gloucestershire about the need for lights when parking at night would be nearing the end, explained Chief Inspector J.G. Reeks this week.

Chief Inspector Reeks told the Gazette that police were very satisfied with the improvements in night parking since the lights-at-night campaign started.

OLVESTON Parish Council agreed to go ahead with negotiations with the Old Down Estate for the lease of land for a children’s play field.

STRIKE action to support a £20 minimum wage for farm workers was advocated by William Blissett of Frampton Cotterell at the Gloucestershire branch National Union of Agricultural Worker’s annual delegates meeting.

The meeting was discussing a call for a £15 minimum wage and a 40-hour week, compared with the present £10/10/- and 44 hours.

January 1976

A KINGSWOOD man who rescued a boy from the River Avon at Bath was awarded a Royal Humane Society testimonial.

Father of four, Mr Clarence Cook, 37, dived full clothed into the river when he saw the boy fall from a moored cabin cruiser, and held the boys head above water until his parents could lift him to safety.

A BAG of crushed tablets found by police in a Mini car crashed on the M5 contained 2.6 grammes of Methylamphetamine, Dursley Magistrates were told.

Both the crash and the drugs led to the court appearance of eighteen year old Raymond Weatherley of Wolverhampton, who admitted to possessing a restricted drug and driving without due care and attention.

SEASON tickets to Dodington House at concessionary rates would not be made available to Yate parishioners for the season, members of the parish council were informed at their monthly meeting.

The council had enquired if the same facilities enjoyed by two neighbouring parishes could be extended to Yate.

MAKING an express drugs deliver, a man drove through a radar beam on the road to Berkeley.

Mr Bryan Rhys Pluck, of Filton Avenue Horfield, pleaded guilty after being recorded travelling at 45 mph on a road with a 30 mph speed limit.