Frome Valley Voice

01/08/2025

Are you bagging Gromits this summer? If you'd like to see your picture in the Voice, send it, with the name of the Gromit and anyone in the photo, to [email protected]

THREE statues on this year’s Gromit Unleashed 3 sculpture trail are bringing visitors into the Frome Valley. The trail runs until August 31, to raise funds for the Grand Appeal for Bristol Children’s Hospital. Among the 53 sculptures across the region are three in local villages. Rosebud Rosebud...

31/07/2025

Fewer patients waiting a week or longer, and more people offered a choice of day or time, survey finds

MORE patients of GP practices are being offered same-day appointments than a year ago, new figures show. More than 700,000 patients across the country responded to the annual NHS GP Patient Survey, published in July, including 106 at Frome Valley Medical Centre in Frampton Cotterell, 126 at Yate’s...

25/07/2025

Shops are 'suffering' as car park 'has hardly had a single car in it' since charges came in, say store owners

NEW parking charges are killing shops as drivers choose to go elsewhere instead, business owners have told South Gloucestershire Council. Owners of shops in Winterbourne spoke at a council meeting in July, telling members the 53-space Flaxpits Lane car park has “hardly had a single car in it” si...

14/07/2025

Woman aged 19 was seriously injured in collision with unmarked car on emergency call

A POLICE officer has been charged after the unmarked car he was driving collided with a pedestrian on a roundabout. PC Dan Parsons, aged 32, is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates Court tomorrow to face a charge of causing serious injury by dangerous driving in connection with the collision, in whi...

10/07/2025

Site south of Westerleigh could help power a new supercomputer

TWO giant wind turbines could soon be built next to the M4 between Pucklechurch and Westerleigh. The turbines would help power the nearby Bristol and Bath Science Park, including the Isambard AI supercomputer being built there. The wind turbines would be set up by the Bristol Energy Network, with a....

08/07/2025

Builders will hold a 'drop-in' event in Coalpit Heath on Friday

A DEVELOPER has launched a new bid to build 450 homes on Green Belt land at Coalpit Heath. Bloor Homes says its development, on a site to the east of the village between Roundways and St Anne’s Drive, the railway line and Woodside Road, will include “50% affordable housing”, land for a two-for...

04/07/2025

Hire scheme is about to go live in Frampton, Winterbourne and Coalpit Heath

LEGAL electric scooters and e-bikes are about to arrive on the streets of Frampton Cotterell, Winterbourne and Coalpit Heath as a regional hire scheme expands into the area. People living in the three villages can expect to see the distinctive light turquoise Dott vehicles from Monday, July 7, when....

19/06/2025

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17/06/2025

Most people will get a new collection day - council also confirms start date for 3-weekly black bin collections next year

BIG changes to bin and recycling collections in South Gloucestershire will begin in August, the council has said. Most residents will have a new collection day for black bins and some will have green and black bins collected on different days. The changes are part of a new eight-year waste contract....

11/06/2025

Police are calling on the drivers of four cars who passed the scene to come forward, as teenager is treated for 'potentially life-threatening injuries'

A CYCLIST was seriously injured after the electric bike he was riding was involved in a collision at Wickwar. Police say the rider, who was in his late teens, is in hospital with “potentially life-threatening injuries” following the incident on the B4060 Station Road, near George Osmond Archfiel...

10/06/2025

Closure will mean only one of the 'Big Four' banks will be left in the town

BANKING giant NatWest is closing its Yate branch later this year. The company, one of the ‘Big Four’ UK high street banks, announced today that its branch in Yate Shopping Centre’s North Walk (pictured above) will shut on September 25. It is one of 55 closures announced by NatWest, just over a...

09/06/2025

Licence will help volunteers raise money to maintain popular playing field in Frampton Cotterell

A VOLUNTEER-run community charity has won the right to sell alcohol and play live music on family fundraising events at its playing field pavilion. South Gloucestershire Council’s licensing sub-committee approved an application by Beesmoor Road Playing Field in Frampton Cotterell for a premises li...