Residents in Patchway are being invited to attend a public exhibition to find out about detailed plans for a proposed new police complex in the town. Located at 90 Gloucester Road (the former Bensons site), the complex will contain a 48-cell Custody and Crime Investigation Centre together with a police station to replace the existing one at Elm Park, Filton.
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Patchway lorry driver named as M5 crash victim
A Patchway man has been named as one of seven people killed in Friday’s horrific crash on the M5 near Taunton. Father-of-five Terry Brice, 55, a lorry driver working for the owners of Cornish pasty makers Ginsters, is reported to be one of two lorry drivers who lost their lives in the 34-vehicle pile-up. Leicestershire-based food producer Samworth Brothers, which
Continue readingLove rival “stabbed by jealous ex-boyfriend”
A Patchway man who was fatally stabbed in an incident in Rodway Road in January was killed by the jealous ex-boyfriend of the woman he was seeing, Bristol Crown Court has heard. Steven Vice, 22, denies murdering 25-year-old Wayne Brown, claiming instead that Mr Brown attacked him and he acted in self-defence. The court was told that on the evening
Continue readingFind out about the M4/M5 managed motorway scheme
Residents of Patchway have a chance to find out more about the soon to be implemented M4/M5 managed motorways scheme at a public exhibition this weekend. The £88.6m project will see the introduction of variable mandatory speed limits and use of the hard shoulder as an extra traffic lane to ease congestion. Implementation of the scheme is expected to take
Continue readingCouncillors “sympathetic” to proposed new youth work project
Patchway Town Council has agreed to give “sympathetic consideration” to a proposed £45k project for youth work in the town in the next financial year (2012/2013). A document entitled “Patchway Young Community Project” was circulated at the October meeting of the Finance Committee by Mark Seed, Children’s Services Manager of Southern Brooks Community Partnership. The project would include individual support
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