Archive
This page lists all posts published in The Journal since we launched in May 2011.
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Index
- 2020: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2019: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2018: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2017: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2016: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2015: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2014: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2013: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2012: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2011: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
February 2020
November 2019
- Lidl's new store on Hayes Way, Patchway to open on 5th December
- Airfield transformation set to get under way
October 2019
August 2019
June 2019
- TV’s Fred Dinenage opens new retirement complex in Charlton Hayes
- Royal guest at Concorde 50th anniversary event
May 2019
November 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
April 2018
March 2018
November 2017
October 2017
- Lidl looking to open new store on Hayes Way
- Patchway Special School gets nod from planners
- Patchway secondary joins Olympus Trust
September 2017
- Tesco community team helps spruce up hall
- Patchway store's charity birthday party raises funds for NSPCC
- Patchway Community College "proud" of students' GCSE achievements
August 2017
- Legal proceedings initiated to evict travellers
- Record post-16 results for Patchway students
- McCarthy & Stone given green light for Charlton Hayes developments
- Patchway Community College awarded multi-million pound investment
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
- Patchway church’s new stained glass window makes a big impression
- Sea Harrier airlifted to new museum site
- Filton Concorde completes final journey to new £19m home
January 2017
December 2016
November 2016
- Patchway school placed in 'special measures' following damning Ofsted report
- HRH The Princess Royal attends topping out ceremony for new Concorde hangar
September 2016
August 2016
July 2016
June 2016
- Information session on Patchway tunnel modernisation work
- Enforcement camera goes live on A38 bus lane at Aztec West
May 2016
March 2016
- Local students tell 'The Story of Scrap'
- Inquiry begins after suspected human remains found near Cribbs Causeway
February 2016
January 2016
- Olympus Trust to help Patchway Community College overcome "significant challenges"
- Plans submitted for housing on site of former Royal British Legion Club
November 2015
October 2015
August 2015
July 2015
- Callicroft Primary School celebrates positive Ofsted rating
- Schools' aerospace art hunt takes flight
June 2015
- Plans unveiled for new ice rink, ski centre and skydiving facilities at Cribbs
- Charlton Hayes Summer Fun Day on Saturday
- Mall Cribbs launches Thursday 'Mummy Mornings'
May 2015
April 2015
- Coniston Primary School rated 'good' by Ofsted
- Budget boost for Bristol Aerospace Museum
- Stoke Lodge is split from Patchway to form new civil parish
March 2015
- Volunteering opportunities that help bring conservation to life!
- A38 speed cameras to be switched back on
February 2015
January 2015
- Councillors banking on "sustainable" modes of transport to prevent gridlock
- M5 Junction 17 (Cribbs Causeway) improvement work due to start this week
December 2014
November 2014
- Council opens second consultation on proposed highway improvement measures
- Filton Airfield development plans submitted
October 2014
- Exhibition to reveal plans for expansion of The Mall at Cribbs Causeway
- Job fair at Patchway Community Centre
- Charlton Hayes Autumn Fun Day
September 2014
August 2014
- Patchway Community College students celebrate A-level and GCSE successes
- Rodway Road post office to be refurbished and offer longer opening hours
July 2014
- Charlton Hayes community consultation
- Appeal for witnesses after stabbing at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway
- Second 'fun day' to be held at Charlton Hayes
- Great Art Hunt gets under way in Patchway and Bradley Stoke
June 2014
- HSBC branch at Aztec West to close in August
- Consultation launched on "ambitious" town centre redevelopment plan
May 2014
- Charlton Hayes 'picnic in the park' for under-5s
- Young Halle clicks with Tesco and bags donation for school
- Patchway businessman to run Bristol 10k to help local air ambulance
April 2014
March 2014
- Permission granted for first major housing scheme in Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood
- College staff dress up for World Book Day
February 2014
- Discover local volunteering opportunities at 'speed matching' event
- Patchway Fire Station to close by 2018
January 2014
- Council unveils vision for Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood
- Three men arrested after elderly couple targeted by fraudsters in Patchway
December 2013
November 2013
- Patchway police custody suite may be run by private firm
- Thieves steal tricycle belonging to five-year-old with cerebral palsy
- The Saturdays switch on Mall Cribbs' Christmas lights
- Consultation on plans for a further 5,700 new homes in Cribbs/Patchway area
October 2013
- Unattended cooking leads to Cavendish Road fire
- Highwood Road to remain closed; traffic review promised for rest of town
- Patchway Youth Centre re-opened with a bang
- Highwood Road: Councillors told to ignore financial implications of re-opening
- Another £50,000 allocated for regeneration of Patchway town centre
- Patchway fashion student chosen to write blog for Welsh shopping centre
September 2013
- Scott Park's accessible play area officially opened
- Launch of Patchway Dementia Action Alliance
- Success for Patchway triathlete at European Championships
August 2013
- Permanent closure of Highwood Road recommended by council officers
- More record GCSE results for Patchway Community College
- Public meeting called as final decision on Highwood Road closure looms
- Patchway Community College "delighted" with A-level results
July 2013
- Councillors asked to approve £1.5m upgrade for community centre
- Rollers at the ready as Sainsbury's staff help out at Brooks Café
- Patchway Festival gets under way this weekend
June 2013
- Residents object to Aztec West radiotherapy centre plans
- Tracking app helps police recover mobile phone and make arrest
- Open day at community centre and café
May 2013
- New parish for Stoke Lodge clears final hurdle
- Witnesses sought after cars damaged in Rodway Road
- Southern Brooks set to continue supporting local families
- Have your say: Is Patchway a dementia friendly community?
- Rolls-Royce backs Bloodhound project
- Rolls-Royce pledges £1m towards Bristol Aerospace Centre
April 2013
- Local aerospace apprentices visit Jack Lopresti MP in House of Commons
- Last chance to comment on 'experimental' closure of Highwood Road
- Man jailed for nine years after hammer attack at Christmas party
- Patchway College students honoured after six-month competition
- Youngsters join McDonald's staff in Dreamscheme litter picking challenge
March 2013
- Rolls-Royce helps stage final of schools' engineering challenge
- 53 drivers fined for illegally using Highwood Road - in a single day!
- Vox pop: Highwood Road closure
- Coniston Road to be resurfaced next week
- Uncertainty continues as Callicroft School fails to recruit new headteacher
- Patchway's new food co-op now operational
February 2013
- Area Forum to consider Patchway transport, youth and community projects
- Trio of ex-Councillors made Honorary Freemen of Patchway
- Motorway footbridge reopened following four month closure
- Town Council notes financial implications of Stoke Lodge independence
- Love in the aisles at Asda, Cribbs Causeway
- Callicroft Primary School advertises for new headteacher
- Community choir offers stress-busting vocal workout
- Patchway to get 24-hour bus service from March
January 2013
- Mixed performances for Patchway primaries in KS2 tests
- Primary school pupils' Olympic-inspired book launched at Waterstones
- Mall shake-up: Several major stores to close
- Charity seeks five full-time 'Community Organisers'
- Patchway Rolls-Royce site escapes defence job cuts
- Two arrested after man dies at Willow Close property
- Commissioner asks for views on policing priorities
- Council seeks views on draft plan for Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood
- New footbridge successfully installed over M5
- Bovis given permission to build homes on land foreseen for employment
- New year, new challenge! Courses starting soon in Patchway
- Housing society asks: How would you improve The Parade?
- New motorway footbridge to be installed next week
December 2012
- Former soldier guilty of racially aggravated assault on Costcutter shopkeeper
- Appeal for information after man critically injured in Cedar Close altercation
- Highwood Road closure: Church minister urges flock to "make feelings known"
- New nursery officially opened at Jump, Cribbs Causeway
- Patchway College teachers' video is internet hit
- 200 jobs to be created by oil and gas firm at Aztec West
- Community centre to stage Christmas carol concert
- Patchway College Christmas concert: What a cracker!
- Church celebrates official opening of new 'campus' at Aztec West
- Police and Crime Commissioner pays a visit to Southern Brooks
- Residents back move to split Stoke Lodge from Patchway
- Fans get chance to meet David Walliams at Mall book signing
- Witnesses sought following collision between pedestrian and lorry on A38
November 2012
- Shellmor Avenue left turn ban to begin on Monday
- Life-size knitted nativity characters to visit Patchway church
- Students show their spots and raise lots for Children in Need
- Committee to consider objections to Hempton Lane parking restriction plans
- Students get the chance to perform at the Colston Hall
- Police warn motorists to steer clear of Highwood Road or face fine
- Council grants permission for another takeaway in Rodway Road
- Massive crowd sees JLS turn on The Mall's Christmas lights
- Motorway footbridge to be dismantled this weekend
- Mother and child hurt as firework thrown into shop at The Parade
October 2012
- BMX club rides away with Patchway sport award
- Patchway Community College rated "good" by Ofsted inspectors
- October half-term events for children and families in Patchway
- Cash stolen from 92-year-old Stoke Lodge woman while she slept
- Armed robbery at Patchway Roundabout opticians
- Highwood Road closure ignored by majority of drivers
- Ex-marine honoured after helping women being threatened in Lysander Road
- M5 Aztec and Cribbs junctions to get £1.4m upgrade
- Planning Committee set to approve Longney Place building plans
- Airbus graduates support Family Fun Day extravaganza
- Highwood Road closure set for 15th October
September 2012
- Fashion show returns to The Mall at Cribbs
- Motorway footbridge to be replaced before Christmas
- Jump play centre to close for improvement work
- JLS to headline The Mall's charity Christmas concert and lights switch-on
- Plans for another takeaway in Rodway Road withdrawn
- Officials recommend go-ahead for Shellmor Avenue closure
- Future of Patchway Youth Centre hangs in the balance
- Allotments open day first of many local 'Discover' events
- Patchway spending proposals to be decided at Area Forum
August 2012
- The Mall welcomes three new stores
- Consultation on more yellow lines for Hempton Lane
- More exam records broken at Patchway Community College
- Residents asked: Should Stoke Lodge break away from Patchway?
- Best-ever A-level results for Patchway school
- Judo club volunteers up for national award
- Bay Tree Close planning application resurrected after 26 years
- Strike it lucky at Hollywood Bowl, Cribbs Causeway
- Patchway College student hits national headlines with Daily Mail dress design
- MP congratulates TNT Post on Patchway job creation
July 2012
- Airbus graduates complete two-day makeover challenge
- Patchway Festival 2012 - in pictures
- Future of Patchway sheltered housing schemes secured
- Highwood Road petitioners ignored at Full Council
- Hamper for lucky post office prize draw winner
- Highwood Road decison referred to Full Council
- Arrest made over racist incident at The Parade
June 2012
- Barratt Homes set to launch soon at Charlton Hayes
- Appeal for information following Callicroft distraction burglary
- Persimmon submits plans for 1,100 homes south of airfield
- Holy Family School gets improved rating from Ofsted
- Highwood Road petition falls on deaf ears at South Glos Council
- Judo club celebrates success at area championships
- Appeal after man and woman assaulted outside Community Centre
- Police estates project seeks local subcontractors
- Thousands brave the rain at The Mall's Jubilee concert
- Council gives confused message over Coniston Road closure
May 2012
- Coniston street party to launch Jubilee celebration weekend
- Patchway school misses out on Government refurbishment cash
- Patchway Ki Aikido Club celebrates 15th birthday
- Post Office celebrates first anniversary with free prize draw
- Highwood Road protesters plan to make a big noise at Council
- Aztec West careers fair to help people into work
- Rolls-Royce plant to benefit from MOD's jet fighter U-turn
- Bookstart Bear makes storytime visit to Patchway Library
- Ford dealership aiming to move to Hayes Way site
- Trio in lucky escape from Southsea Road fire
- Opportunities for volunteers in Patchway, Filton & The Stokes
April 2012
- Highwood Road campaign reaches critical milestone of 2,500 signatures
- Residents submit petition against Shellmor Avenue traffic scheme
- Highwood Road closed overnight on four days this week
- Patchway groups benefit from The Mall's charity fund
- Overnight closures of M5 between Cribbs Causeway and Almondsbury
- Pixie Lott to star in Mall's charity Jubilee Concert
- Residents unanimous over revised Hempton Lane waiting restrictions
- Unsung heroes honoured with Community Awards
- Police invite residents to Senior Citizens' Day
March 2012
- No decision on Coniston Road raised crossings until June
- MP visits DHL Service Centre at Cribbs Causeway
- Town Councillor launches petition to keep Highwood Road open
- Plans submitted for new police complex on Gloucester Road
- NHS seeks suggestions for new services at Patchway Clinic
- Council launches raft of consultations on Highwood Road traffic orders
- Fire service offers free home fire safety checks
February 2012
- Over 60s tea parties a big hit with residents
- Primary pupils inspired by thought-provoking workshop
- Jail for Kestrel Close cannabis grower
- Last chance to comment on Coniston Road zebra crossing proposals
- Record profits for Rolls-Royce in 2011
- Labour Club thief picks up sentence for benefit fraud
- Heating failure leads to partial school closure
- Housing developments win reprieve for Patchway Clinic
January 2012
- Preferred bidder announced for Gloucester Road police complex
- Second consultation on Shellmor Avenue traffic proposals
- Jail sentence for Bradley Road cannabis grower
- Chance to recycle unwanted electrical items for free
- Views sought on future of Patchway Clinic
- New HSS Hire depot at Aztec West creates 30 jobs
- Co-operative to create new legal services jobs at Aztec West
- Community College Amateur Boxing Club officially opened
- Drive Vauxhall developer asks Council for more time
- New parenting course starts soon in Patchway
- Community centre to host beer festival in April
- Road closure will cause Patchway to "sink further into obscurity"
December 2011
- New gym set to open at Smith's Complex
- Journal photo used as The Mall's Christmas Card image
- Shellmor Avenue closure scheme gets thumbs up from residents
- Man arrested for drugs offence after police stop car in Patchway
- Local school children help to officially open the Patchway Hub
- New plan sees 3,950 extra homes for Cribbs/Patchway area
- Coca-Cola truck at The Mall this afternoon
- School rated "good" for business teaching
- Christmas drink drive campaign kicks off at Aztec West
- Patchway man breached order because of 'dodgy kebab'
November 2011
- Hundreds of jobs to go as RBS announces closure of Aztec West office
- Local transport schemes to be discussed at Area Forum
- Frustration at lack of information over road closures
- Steven Vice convicted of murdering Wayne Brown
- Assault at traveller site sparks major incident response
- Big turnout for Remembrance Parade and Service
- More consultation on Hempton Lane waiting restrictions
- 'Skate and donate' for Children in Need at The Mall
- Appeal for witnesses after attempted robbery
- Olly Murs draws the crowds as he lights up The Mall
- Consultation on proposed Gloucester Road police complex
- Patchway lorry driver named as M5 crash victim
- Love rival "stabbed by jealous ex-boyfriend"
- Find out about the M4/M5 managed motorway scheme
- Councillors "sympathetic" to proposed new youth work project
October 2011
- Last chance to comment on Highwood Road traffic changes
- Police seek witnesses following Durban Road arson attack
- Recycling inspires St Chad's School artwork
- Stoke Lodge Primary gets improved rating from Ofsted
- MP supports PFI bid to rebuild Patchway Community College
- St Chad's Pre-School is "outstanding", says inspector
- Cycle hire scheme rolled out at local schools
- Allotment society seeks helpers for disabled project
- Skin condition prevents child attending school full-time
- Appeal for information after Callicroft Road assault
- Man jailed for growing cannabis at Cranbourne Road property
- Patchway youth theatre group needs your vote
September 2011
- Chance to comment on the future of Filton Airfield
- Bright Sparks Pre-School rated "good" by Ofsted
- Police seize cannabis plants in Bradley Road raid
- New library showcases facilities at open day
- Police appeal after boy assaulted in Coniston Road
- Closure rumours "causing upset" at sheltered housing schemes
- Public meeting over proposed closure of Filton Airfield
- Judge threatens Patchway fraudster with jail
- Town Council to hear update on Charlton Hayes
- New Patchway Locality Hub opens its doors
- Police appeal after theft from Patchway bus at The Mall
- Patchway churches alerted to danger posed by fraudster
- Work starts on transforming Highwood Road into a 'linear park'
August 2011
July 2011
- Summer playscheme underway in Patchway
- Consultation on Poppy Day Parade street closure application
- Witnesses sought after attempted robbery in A38 underpass
- Parade gets 2011 Patchway Festival underway
June 2011
- Parents of children with drink or drug problems offered help
- Residents celebrate launch of new youth housing scheme
