The UWE Exhibition and Conference Centre will be the focus of the media this Friday (16th November) when it hosts the count for two important elections taking place the previous day. Despite being outside the City boundary, the Centre has been chosen by Bristol City Council to accommodate the counts for both the Bristol Mayor election and the Avon and
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A new bus-only road constructed between the UWE Frenchay Campus and MOD Abbey Wood is estimated to have cost nearly half a million pounds more than originally planned. Built by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), the 1km-long Cheswick Bus Link opened on 17th September and was said at the time to have cost £1.5 million, with £1.2 million of that coming
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Building work has started on City of Bristol College’s newest building, on the site of the former Filton High School in New Road, Stoke Gifford. The £12 million Advanced Engineering Centre will bring together the college’s automotive and aeronautical engineering into one state-of-the-art building creating one of the largest engineering centres in the UK. The new facility will include several
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The award winning Stoke Gifford branch of the Royal British Legion (RBL) launched its 2012 Poppy Appeal on Friday (26th October) at Parkway Station. The branch has been raising record amounts for the Poppy Appeal in recent years. In 2010/11, it raised £30,500 and then in 2011/12 it broke even that record with £37,500. In 2010/11, the Stoke Gifford branch
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A police investigation is underway following a robbery in which shop staff were threatened with a knife. The robbery occurred at around 9:20pm last night (Thursday 25th October) at McColl’s in Little Stoke. A man entered the shop armed with a knife and demanded money. He was given money and cigarettes and left the shop. Avon and Somerset Police say
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A new weekly ‘Parkrun’ for local runners and joggers is to begin in Little Stoke Park on Saturday 3rd November. Parkrun is a free, weekly 5k timed run, which takes place all over the UK and beyond, every Saturday at 9am, all year round. News of the start of the regular weekly session follows a successful trial event in the
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A planning application has been submitted for a new primary school that is due to open next September in Cheswick Village, Stoke Gifford. The proposed school, which will be an academy operated by the Cabot Learning Federation, is to be constructed on land between Long Down Avenue and the new Cheswick Bus Link – in the centre of the new
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A 28-year-old man from Bristol has been charged with two burglaries in Little Stoke. Both burglaries happened on Sunday 30th September. A suspect was arrested on Wednesday 10th October. The man is charged with one dwelling burglary and a break-in at a pub where cash was taken. He appeared before Northavon Magistrates earlier today (Thursday 11th October). Avon and Somerset
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A new University Technical College (UTC) due to open in New Road, Stoke Gifford, next year has appointed its first Principal. The Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy (BTE Academy) is due to open in September 2013 with an intake of up to 120 students in Year 10 (14 year olds) and 60 in Year 12 (16 year olds). Once fully
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Councillors at South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) have approved detailed plans for 166 homes to be built by Crest Nicholson on land at Harry Stoke. The homes, ranging from one-bedroom flats to five-bedroom houses, will form part of a new development that will eventually consist of 1,200 dwellings. The Harry Stoke site was first earmarked for development in SGC’s Local Plan,
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