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250 dancers in birthday show
A DANCE group based in Emersons Green celebrated its 18th birthday in style, with a show featuring more than 250 performers. 3D Dance was founded...
Book your trip to the tip
RESIDENTS could soon have to book a visit to one of South Gloucestershire Council’s Sort It recycling centres. The council says a new law limits...
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Lifestyle News
Community nature reserve celebrates first year
A PROJECT to make Emersons Green a thriving haven for wildlife has celebrated a successful first year. Emersons Green Community Nature Reserve was set up...
Old school will be ‘handed to community’
FRENCHAY residents look set to win their campaign to secure the former primary school building for community use. Frenchay & Downend ward South Gloucestershire councillors...
March 2024: Staple Hill Hub
Hub’s helping hand from Freemasons STAPLE Hill Community Hub has received two donations from Gloucestershire Freemasons to support its work. A donation of £250 from...
December 2023: Downend Folk & Roots Review
DOWNEND FOLK & ROOTS REVIEW: HANNAH SANDERS & BEN SAVAGE + LAUREN SOUTH FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER 2020, CHRIST CHURCH DOWNEND. The sub-title of Hannah Sanders...
December 2023: Downend Folk & Roots Preview
NEXT AT DOWNEND FOLK & ROOTS: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL – THE WILDERNESS YET + LEO MACKENZIE FRIDAY 15 DECEMBER 2023, CHRIST CHURCH DOWNEND. Headlining the now...
Sports clubs set for £1m upgrades
TWO sports clubs based side by side in Frenchay are being given almost £1 million to help fund new facilities. South Gloucestershire Council has awarded...
Enjoy your third age
MORE than 100 people came to Page Park to find out more about a group helping older people to ‘learn, laugh and live’. Visitors tried...
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Sports News
Learn bowls
PAGE Park Bowls Club is holding its popular course to train new bowlers to basic level from April. The course is open to anyone aged...
Coach Penny up for national award
A DOWNEND badminton coach has been nominated for a national award in recognition of more than 35 years of service to the sport. Penny Shears...
Mixed fortunes on short mat
DOWNEND Short Mat Bowls Club continues to thrive and now has a team – Downend Colts – in the Bristol and District Short Mat Bowls...
Mangos’ away form raises play-off hopes
AFTER spending much of the season in mid-table obscurity, Mangotsfield United’s recent away form has hoisted them up towards the play-offs for the first time....
Opinion News
A Passion for life
What is Easter all about? Is it more than just a bank holiday weekend and Easter eggs? I wouldn’t be writing this if it wasn’t....
February 2024: Your Opinion
Frenchay 10k is back THIS year’s Frenchay 10k race, sponsored yet again by Star Legal Fishponds, is taking place on Sunday April 14, at...
January 2024: Your Opinion
Thanks for helping BLOC help homeless BLOC Productions’ recent musical A Christmas Carol, performed at the Bristol Hippodrome, raised over £7,000 for Caring in Bristol,...
December 2023: Letters
Greyhound mystery solved FURTHER to the article ‘The Staple Hill greyhound mystery’ (CHAP column, Voice, November), this is not a mystery. The dog in question...
November 2023: Letters
Is this the tidiest street in Downend? RESIDENTS of Cleeve Park Road turned out in force in October for a tidy-up and bulb planting in...
October 2023: Letters
Thanks for backing our bake sale ON Tuesday August 15, local independent funeral directors HG Harris opened the doors to the public as we hosted...
September 2023: Letters
Can you donate for refugees? DO you have old sleeping bags, blankets, raincoats or tents that you could donate? I’m Miriam, a volunteer with Care4Calais...