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mangotsfeild to yate cycle route

By jennifermoss

OK, very true. It shouldnt be a choice between a cycle link and a road link. Both need to be...

By stormb22 at 17:02 on 01/05/10

the Mangotsfield to Yate cycle route is a great ideal and for the Yate residents to say it is unsafe well here we go again whenever something new is proposed they have to moan about it ! they moan because they don't have anything for the kids and families to do in Yate wonder why? the cycle route will give the Yate residents a great opportunity for some peace and a cheap ,safe day out for them and the kids and a safe route...
Yate’s New Tesco Store Is on Its Way – But Bringing Chaos With it

By jennifermoss

Thank you for letting YatePeople know that the bollards are not part of the Tesco development. It is...

By jennifermoss at 21:26 on 23/08/10

Work has now begun on our new look Tesco store in Yate. The new Tesco Extra store is due to be completed in late 2011 and will replace the current Tesco we have in Yate. The current store will remain open up to and over the busy Christmas period but after this a new temporary store has been planned but the location of this store has yet to be revealed. This week preparations began to enable contractors to start the first build...
Even if we want more kids, we can’t afford them

By Moscowowowooo

I lost count of how many kids Ms Sheppard had when she got to number10. I wonder if she lost count...

By Yate-People at 07:00 on 18/08/10

M Y maternal grandfather was one of 13 children. It sounds unusual nowadays, but back in Ireland in the early 20th century large families were not unusual. Having so many mouths to feed wouldn’t have been easy for my great-grandparents, but somehow they managed to raise their brood. Their offspring then went on to have children of their own, but none of them had such large families – not least because of the expense of...
Warning to tradesmen after thefts

By jennifermoss

This is awful. It is still hard to believe that people live their lives by making others miserable...

By Yate-People at 07:00 on 21/08/10

TRADESMEN and women have been reminded to secure their vans after valuable power tools were stolen by gangs targeting the vehicles. Vans were broken into in daylight in Yate and Stoke Gifford, with tools worth hundreds of pounds snatched. A wallet containing cash and cards was also taken from one. Two of the vans were on a building site in Wellington Road, Yate, while another was in the East Walk car park at Yate Shopping...
Yate's Josie Is Days From Big Brother 11 Final

By jennifermoss

She has been a great ambassador to The West Country and especially Bristol. She has been a strong...

By jennifermoss at 13:01 on 22/08/10

So, we knew our Josie was a sure thing for the final this Tuesday but these last few days is where the competition really gets started. After Friday night’s quadruple eviction, Josie was left minus her Aussie hunk and also minus Corin, which makes Josie the only female left in the competition. There are only three previous female winners of Big Brother, and I am hoping Josie can make it female number 4. Friday night saw...

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Police find £50k drugs haul in raid

By Yate-People at 12:00 on 02/09/10

POLICE have seized more than 50 suspected cannabis plants, with a potential street value of up to £50,000 in a raid on a house in Yate. South Gloucestershire officers, supported by specialist firearms officers, searched number 60 Bredon yesterday morning. They recovered plants, specialist growing equipment and a BB gun. A 31-year-old man was arrested and remains in police custody. The raid came just a day after the...
Landslip road to be closed for six weeks

By Yate-People at 07:00 on 02/09/10

A ROAD used by a large number of lorries will be closed for six weeks while work is carried out to a collapsed bank. People living along the B4059 Latteridge Road blame the continual HGV traffic for two landslips which happened within weeks of each other earlier this year. In March a section of the roadside bank fell onto the carriageway, forcing closure of the road so the clay could be scraped away. Just a month later engineers...
Royal Ballet choreographer opens school’s new studios

By Yate-People at 07:00 on 01/09/10

A ROYAL Ballet Company dancer and choreographer returned to Bristol to open studios for the school where his career began. William Tuckett danced with Stapleton School of Dancing from the age of six before joining the Royal Ballet Upper School. He started dancing with the school in Stapleton Church Hall but now, almost 60 years after it was formed, most of the school’s classes will be based in studios at Ridgewood Community...
Scrutiny panel to have its say on proposals for care homes future

By Yate-People at 07:00 on 01/09/10

A SCRUTINY panel will have its say on proposals for an outside operator to build and run two new care homes for the elderly in Yate and Kingswood instead of South Gloucestershire Council. A programme launched by the council last year will replace its eight residential homes with 700 extra-care flats for those who want to live as independently as possible and two new residential homes for those unable to do so. The first of the old...
Two arrests on van theft

By Yate-People at 07:00 on 26/08/10

TWO men have been arrested in connection with a series of thefts of from vans in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. They were arrested in Filton after police from the South Gloucestershire Priority Crime Team saw a suspicious vehicle in Filton on Tuesday. Two vans were seized after the arrests. Police said yesterday that a 28-year-old Cardiff man had been charged with the theft of tools worth £3,000 from a van in Yate on...