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Next Saturday, 22nd June, will see St Peter's Hospice volunteers out on the pavements throughout Bristol and surrounding areas, inviting the public to make a much-needed contribution to its funds through its annual Street Collection.  And in a bid to entice a record number of shoppers through their doors, many of the stores are also staging special events to entertain their visitors. In Downend, not only will the Badminton Road...

THE British Red Cross will be taking its emergency support service on tour to encourage people to become volunteers. Trained volunteers from the Red Cross fire and emergency support service are called out by the fire and rescue service when there is a disaster. Staff and volunteers will be on hand to show people what they do as part of the roadshow that is touring the area over the next few weeks. On Saturday, June 22, they will...

More than 50 staff at the Bristol office of one of the world's leading design, engineering and project management consultancies heard about the importance of men having checks on their prostate at a special presentation this week. David Miller, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer as a fit and healthy 59-year-old, talked to staff of Atkins at Aztec West, Bristol, about his experience along with Professor David Gillat from the...

A BID is being made for Government grants worth more than £1 million to extend and improve the Greater Bristol Bus Network. The West of England Joint Transport Executive Committee, which represents the four councils in the Bristol area, wants to extend bus lanes in five areas in Bristol and South Gloucestershire, add cameras and make other changes. The move comes after £78 million was spent on upgrading ten routes in...

A MAN has been arrested after police uncovered a suspected cannabis farm set up in an outbuilding at a farm in Tytherington, South Gloucestershire. A neighbourhood policing team based at Thornbury police station searched the barn on Wednesday morning. They found what are believed to be 300 mature cannabis plants, being grown under artificial lights. One man was arrested on suspicion of producing controlled drugs and bailed pending...

CATTLE rustlers have stolen four calves from a farm in South Gloucestershire. The Holstein calves were taken last Friday night at Itchington, near Thornbury. PC Lee Bainbridge said: "The calves were being weaned but two were ill with scour and were marked with orange stain to show they were being treated. All have ear tags." He urged people who saw any vehicles in the area of Itchington Road, Latteridge Lane or Earthcott...

A HISTORIC stately home which was converted into an upmarket hotel has finally got new owners after being left standing empty for the last two years. As reported in the Bristol Post, Hunstrete House near Pensford in North Somerset was left standing empty when its previous owners – the von Essen Group – went out of business. Other hotels owned by the Bath-based firm, including the nearby Ston Easton Hotel and Thornbury...

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NORTH Somerset is probably best known for its cider and apple orchards. But the area has now got its own wine after a vineyard in Wrington produced its first batch of what it hopes will be an award-winning rosé. Dunleavy Vineyards, which is owned and run by Ingrid Bates, has been trying to grow the right kind of grapes for several years despite the terrible British summers and chronic lack of sunshine. And after years of...

HIS day job might be to plot Bristol City's course back into football's Championship – but Sean O'Driscoll is about to help a young cancer survivor steer her way through a very different sports challenge. The Robins' manager will take part in one of the world's most famous yacht races, around the Isle of Wight, on Saturday. He will contest the Round the Island Race with 25-year-old Frankie Hale, of Thornbury, taking on a...