A woman and her 13-year-old nephew had a lucky escape after a fire at a flat in Stoke Gifford yesterday evening (Wednesday 4th September). One fire engine from Southmead Fire Station and another from Patchway Fire Station attended the incident in Great Swanmoor Close (off New Road, near the Travis Perkins store). When crews arrived they found the woman, thought to
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Abbeywood Community School has registered an increase of almost 20% in the number of students achieving 5 A*-C grades at GCSE including English and Maths in the last two years with 60% of students hitting or exceeding this important benchmark this week (up from 41% in 2011 and 47% in 2012). The school also reports an increase in the number
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The keys to a significant new Bristol building were handed over on Wednesday (21st August), as City of Bristol College took possession of its new £12m Advanced Engineering Centre (AEC) at New Road, Stoke Gifford. The keys were handed over by Cowlin Construction after building work at the centre was successfully completed earlier this month. College staff are now making
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A local Branch of the Royal British Legion (RBL) is celebrating its 85th birthday with a special fundraising event for the Poppy Appeal. The Stoke Gifford Branch was formed in 1928 and is only seven years younger than the Legion nationally. The Stoke Gifford Branch has, for two years running, won the RBL Gloucestershire County Marling Cup for most efficient
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Youngsters from a Stoke Gifford pre-school and nursery took their buckets and spades to watch work begin on a new church and community centre. The children, from St Michael’s Church Pre-school and Nursery, donned hard hats and hi-vis jackets and took their buckets and spades to see diggers at work on the site of the Old Barns in North Road,
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More than 40 firefighters tackled a blaze at the Summer Palace Chinese takeaway in Stoke Gifford earlier today (Thursday 11th July). The alarm was raised shortly after 11am, and Avon Fire & Rescue Service received more than 20 calls about the incident.
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First Great Western (FGW) has announced that construction of a new three-storey car park at Parkway Station will commence on Saturday 13th July and continue until March 2014. The project, which will provide an additional 710 parking bays at the station, was originally due to be completed by March 2013. Work was scheduled to start last September, but, despite builders’
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Hundreds of people will be taking part in a special service outside St Michael’s Church, Stoke Gifford at 11am on Sunday (23rd June) to celebrate more than 150 years of serving the community. The open-air service will take place on The Green (pictured above), mid-way between the church and the former Victorian school room which is now a church and
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Construction work on Bristol Rovers’ planned new 21,700-seater stadium in Stoke Gifford looks likely to finally get under way in September following the signing of an agreement relating to the future of the club’s present ground in Horfield. The club announced today that all parties have now signed the Section 106 agreement for the redevelopment of the Memorial Stadium site,
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Members of South Gloucestershire Council’s Development Control (West) Committee will tomorrow (Thursday 6th June) take a second look at an outline planning application for a major expansion of the University of the West of England’s (UWE’s) Frenchay Campus in North Bristol. The plans include the erection of new buildings “for academic, recreation, administration and support purposes”, a 200-bed hotel and
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