A BLIND sailor from Yate is going to represent Great Britain at the 2019 Blind Sailing World Championships. Mark Austen, 55, lost his sight after a head on collision with a lorry 25 years ago. He was left with less than 30 per cent vision in
This year’s South Gloucestershire Show will feature a Dog Village. There will be workshops and activities suitable for dogs of all shapes, sizes and breeds at the annual show. Show organisers have joined forces with the Friends of South Glos
Two members of a Yate company were invited to Buckingham Palace after winning a Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Precision Dippings Manufacturing (PDM), who make Bloccs waterproof cast and dressing protectors, won the award for International Trade.
WHETHER or not you agree with the British Army's involvement in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, showing your opposition by defacing a monument to those who died is completely wrong. On the war memorial in the Cenotaph Park Gardens in Stroud
A NEW stroke unit for Dursley’s hospital has been officially opened. Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, Edward Gillespie, performed the official opening of the Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at Vale Community Hospital on Tuesday. The unit, which
A MUM has thanked the kind passers-by who stopped to help her daughter when she suddenly collapsed in the street, saying that they “saved her life”. Chantelle Earle was walking at the bottom of Crawley Hill in Uley at 1pm last Thursday when she
A HEADTEACHER in Yate is celebrating after her secondary school was praised by Ofsted inspectors for making huge improvements. Brimsham Green School has been rated as ‘good’ – the second highest of four rankings – after previously being graded a
