A former soldier has pleaded guilty to a charge of carrying out a racially aggravated assault on a shopkeeper at the Costcutter store in Patchway, reports the Bristol Post. Bristol magistrates heard that Ricky Thorne, 26, of Little Stoke, racially abused staff at the Patchway Roundabout convenience store before getting into a fight with the owner, Muhammad Imran Bashir. The
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Avon and Somerset Police are appealing for witnesses and information following an altercation in Patchway last night that has left a man critically ill in hospital. At around 2:15am on Tuesday (25th December), police were called to Cedar Close. Two men had been involved in a verbal altercation that then turned physical. A 29-year-old man remains in Frenchay hospital in
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A Patchway church minister has urged his parishioners to respond to South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) consultation over the 18-month “experimental” closure of Highwood Road to general traffic. Writing in a recent parish newsletter, Fr Eugene Campbell of Holy Family RC Church says he has noticed an increase in traffic using “rat runs” through Patchway estate since the closure came into
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Actress Jenny Agutter OBE was in town last week to offically open a new nursery in Cribbs Causeway. Best known for her role as Roberta in the BBC television series The Railway Children, Ms Agutter opened the new Caerleon Child Care nursery on a site next to the Jump children’s play centre in Concord Road. Following the success of its first
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Staff at Patchway Community College gave students an early Christmas present by recording their own version of the dance craze ‘Gangnam Style‘. The video, which has been uploaded to YouTube, received over 3,000 views in the first weekend of it being online. Within three hours of being uploaded on Friday 14th December, the video had reviewed over 300 views! The
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Two hundred jobs are set to be created at the Aztec West Business Park next year when an energy company establishes a new ‘subsea engineering hub’, reports the Daily Telegraph. GE Oil & Gas already employs around 500 people in Nailsea and has other UK sites in Aberdeen and Montrose. The company says the expansion is in response to growth
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Patchway Community Centre is holding a carol concert in the main hall on Monday (17th December), from 7pm to 9pm. The event includes drama performances by young children and the Patchway Players, dance from STOMP, singing from St. Chad’s Primary School pupils and from youth workers Jared and Susan, as well as the chance to join in with community carol
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Christmas came early for the students at Patchway Community College (PCC) after they had a huge ovation from the audience at their annual Christmas concert. The night of entertainment was opened by the Patchway Community College choir, singing the song ‘Christmas Star’ beautifully. As the choir left the stage, the audience were encouraged to get involved and sing a traditional
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Members of a Bristol church group have celebrated the official opening of their new ‘campus’ on the Aztec West Business Park. Members of the Edge Church have given up thousands of hours of their time transforming a former industrial unit into a fully functioning church, community centre and nursery – not to mention a concert arena. The church recently held
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Sue Mountstevens, the newly-elected Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Avon and Somerset, visited Patchway last Friday (7th December) to learn first hand about the work being carried out by Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP). This visit was part of a whistle stop tour of South Gloucestershire, during which Ms Mountstevens also met the area’s District Commander, Chief Superintendent Sarah
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