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  • FOOTBALL: Cobwebs of inactivity cost Slimbridge

    ALEX LUMSDEN blamed the cobwebs of inactivity as a mitigating factor in Slimbridge's frustrating 3-2 defeat at Winchester City, writes Rob Peck. Assistant manager Lumsden felt a three-week break cost the Swans as their six-game unbeaten run came

  • IN THE DOCK: Roundup of magistrates' court results

    Igor Leontjev, 38, of Filton Avenue in Horfield has been banned from driving for 36 months after being caught whilst drunk, without a licence and without insurance. He was caught on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire between Willy Wicket roundabout

  • JOHN LIGHT: Memories of childhood holidays

    MRS Light is being taken on holiday. No one deserves it more, or so she tells me. No expense is being spared, our accommodation being described as a ‘junior penthouse suite’. The cruise brochures are amazingly pretentious and overblown and I suspect

  • Main commuter road out of Yate closed this week

    A road between Iron Acton and Winterbourne will be closed for much of the week.  The B4058 Bristol Road will be shut for essential maintenance between 9.30am and 3.30pm on 18–21 November. The road will be closed to all traffic from the Swan