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FREE Issue 596 2nd October 2019 Read by more than 40,000 people each week More cats mutilated in Cadbury Heath area As more reports have emerged of cats being killed and In the latest incident, Morris, an 11-year-old cat belonging mutilated in the Cadbury Heath area, police this week said to Caroline Prater, who runs a charity rescuing cats and they had arrested a man in his 20s as part of their dogs from Romania, was almost decapitated and his tail investigations. was sliced off.

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He had been missing from home for a week and Caroline had put up signs and appealed on social media to try to find him. She found out he was dead after being sent a video of his body. On Sunday Avon & Somerset police said: “We have arrested a man following investigations into a cat that was killed and mutilated. The incident was reported to have happened last weekend in the Cadbury Heath area. “Officers carried out an investigation into the event and discovered reports of a number of similar incidents during the past month. “A man in his 20s from the Longwell Green area has been arrested and released under investigation. Police inquiries into the incident are continuing. Anyone with information to help our inquiries is asked to contact us, quoting reference 5219224048.” Continued on page 3

Also in this Get ready for major Hambrook traffic scheme ASDA takes action to £1m cannabis raid at train timetable changes ‘causing gridlock and deter ‘boy racers’ Kingswood factory week’s issue . . . page 3 pollution’ . . . page 5 . . . page 7 . . . page 12 2 The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 More cats Plan now for biggest mutilated in timetable change on Cadbury Heath area GWR network since 1976 Train services will be transformed Continued from page 1 from December as Great Western In June we reported on the death of Cleo, a one-year-old Railway speeds up its timetable, cat who failed to return to her Longwell Green home and offering faster journey times and was later found in a Cadbury Heath garden, minus head more frequent services to key and tail. At the time her owner said she had been locations, with thousands more deliberately beheaded and warned readers to keep a close seats across the region. eye on their pets. At the time the police confirmed they Around three-quarters of journey had received a report of the body of a cat being found but times will be different from how said there was no evidence to suggest a criminal offence. they are today as new services are A petition has been set up on change.org in memory of added and old ones changed as part Morris and Cleo, calling for tougher punishments for of the improvements, the Regional animal cruelty. It has so far been signed by more than Transport Forum meeting in 13,000 people. They are calling for a high-profile Kingswood heard last week. investigation into such cases and want the government to GWR is introducing its first wholesale timetable change as some calling patterns may change. Trains between Cardiff make immediate changes in the law and pass the Animal since 1976 on 15th December. Central and Portsmouth Harbour will be bigger, and will now Welfare (Sentencing Bill), which was introduced in the There will be new, additional super-fast trains running non- run with five carriages, providing increased capacity on local Commons in June, into effective legislation. stop to London from Bristol Parkway in as little as one hour services. This week the Bristol Moggery Rehoming Centre offered and seven minutes, with around 15,000 extra seats through As part of the shake-up there will no longer be a morning a £100 reward for information leading to the the station every day. direct service from Keynsham to and . apprehension of Morris’s killer and warned on Facebook: There will also be fewer off-peak trains between Bristol Customers should change at Bath Spa. “Calling all cat owners in the Cadbury Heath area. There Parkway and Filton Abbey Wood. The changes are so significant that GWR wants to make sure have been five incidents of cat mutilation in this area. From Temple Meads there will be additional faster services customers aren’t caught out – particularly those who travel Please, please, please keep your cats in at night as this is to and from London Paddington, some of which will not stop regularly and are used to travelling on a specific service. when it has happened. at all stations. And rail chiefs also advise that if you are travelling over the “If anybody has any information please ring the police GWR is also introducing additional faster services between Christmas period, engineering work may affect your journey. or the Moggery on 0117 9243128.” Bath and Paddington but says passengers should be careful Find out more at www.gwr.com

The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 3 Indian restaurant now rated as Good The Mughal Palace zero - which means urgent Facebook: “We are pleased continue to provide restaurant and takeaway in improvement is needed. to announce that after excellent food, service and Barrs Court, which was But a follow-up visit by an working alongside the food most importantly keep our given the worst food environmental health standards agency we have rating high.” hygiene rating in August, inspector from South had our reassessment and As we went to print the has now been rated as Good Council, have been awarded four Food Hygiene Rating following a repeat the rating has leapt to a 4, stars. Scheme had not yet been inspection. which is Good. “We would like to thank all updated but the Mughal The Food Hygiene Rating The Mughal Palace our customers for sticking Palace says it has been told Scheme gives businesses a management posted on by us and we hope to it can take up to 28 days. rating from 5 down to zero which is displayed at their premises and online so that people can make more informed choices about where to buy and eat food. The Mughal Palace at the Barrs Court Inn in Stephens Drive had been rated as THE WEEK IN

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4 The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 ‘Air quality improvement scheme is causing gridlock and pollution’ The trial scheme to improve air quality at the busy of the trial. The next six months will be used to analyse the Hambrook crossroads is actually creating gridlock and responses and air quality data. The final six months will be pollution, say protesters. used to decide what the council is going to do and, if it A petition is calling on Council to decides to make the changes permanent, to complete the legal reopen the Hambrook lights and allow traffic to go through process. from Frenchay towards Hambrook and allow right-hand The ePetition, which so far has more than 240 signatures, has turns heading towards the M32 from the Bromley Health been set up on the council’s website by parent and Downend roundabout to Hambrook. resident Claire Schrader who says there is “no way” the The traffic changes began in August after the government scheme is reducing pollution. ordered the council to tackle air pollution on this part of the She says: “Traffic is at a standstill across all of Downend, A4174 ring road in the shortest time possible for people Frenchay and coming from Mangotsfield from living nearby and all road users, including motorists, bus approximately 7.45am if not earlier to 9am and often until passengers, cyclists and pedestrians. 9.30am. This includes cars idling from Downend high street, me an hour to take my children to school in Hambrook The changes are in line with the arrangements that were on Overndale Road, Badminton Road, Westerleigh Road, Primary School. It is unfair to ask children who have a full implemented during the nine-month Bromley Heath Viaduct Bristol Road, and Beckspool Road all heading towards the day of learning to sit in car for an hour to get to a school that works in 2017/2018 and the council says that modelling ring road. Cars are also sitting idle within the communities is 1.5 miles away from their home.” shows that reducing the amount of time and number of around these three roads, particularly in Bromley Heath and Meanwhile public transport campaigner David Redgewell is vehicles that are stationary at the traffic lights will reduce Frenchay. also critical of the trial scheme, saying it is slowing down NO2 emissions. “In no way is the closure of these lights reducing pollution. bus services including the 19 and 19a to The council says it understands that the changes make some It is creating gridlock across Downend and Frenchay and Bath. journeys slightly longer as drivers have to drive around the increasing the number of idling cars. It is highly likely that He voiced concern about the effect of the scheme on the M32 roundabout in order to access the B4058 northbound if this closure remains in place and continues even during the lungs of young students living at the UWE campus at and or the ring road from Frenchay. consultation, pollution will increase in the area and make it Frenchay and called for a clear statement from the director People are being asked to submit formal comments via the unhealthy for my children to live in this community. of public health for South Gloucestershire about air quality council’s consultation webpage, during the first six months “I live in Downend near the Lincombe Barn and it is taking in the district.

The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 5 More buses to beat the queues First West of ’s popular Q Buster people to use buses when they don’t have to. buses have returned to keep Bristol moving. The forum, organised by the West of Managing Director James Freeman told the England Combined Authority (WECA), was Regional Transport Forum in Kingswood a chance for the public to hear, and ask last Thursday that 20 extra vehicles and questions, about transport services across the drivers are ready to step in on the busiest region, which includes the B&NES, Bristol routes that suffer from delays caused by City and South Gloucestershire, with sheer weight of traffic. They will be representatives there from Stagecoach, First deployed to hotspots, particularly during Bus, Great Western Railway and Network peak travel times. Rail. Mr Freeman said the Q Buster buses were Takeover trialled in the weeks leading up to Christmas The forum also heard from Stagecoach last year and were a popular and effective West’s managing director Rupert Cox that addition to the network as they meant that his company has recently acquired South First could quickly plug any gaps in the Gloucestershire Bus and Coach. timetable caused by traffic congestion, has been working in particularly at busy times. partnership with the Bristol-based family bus Mr Freeman says bus usage in the region has and coach company for the past two years, risen about 52% since he joined First West sharing their site in Patchway. problems were also highlighted at the Chocolate Quarter, to join major occupiers of England in 2013 which is in stark contrast South Gloucestershire Bus and Coach runs meeting. Pukka Herbs and Independent Vetcare who to some other parts of the country. commercial bus services, school contracts, Keynsham town councillor Deb Cooper, are already based there. He said: “I am not staying what we do is private hire services and is one of the lead who has been involved with the town’s She asked Stagecoach West boss Rupert Cox brilliant but we are working consistently and contractors for Stagecoach’s emerging Neighbourhood Development if he could work with major companies in carefully to improve the way we operate. We business Plan, told the forum that “Keynsham is Keynsham, as the bus firm does in the Aztec now have enough staff to drive every bus we All services will continue to run as planned, collapsing under the volume of cars coming West area, to run contract bus services for have got.” and all staff will transfer to Stagecoach West. in”. big employers. He said growth in use was largely at peak Keynsham congestion She said that Mitie will soon be Mr Cox said it takes time to set up such times and the challenge now is to encourage Meanwhile Keynsham’s congestion consolidating around 300 staff at The services but it might be possible.

6 The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 Asda brings in ParkingEye Community litter pick People are being invited to take part in a community litter Asda has brought in car park management company ParkingEye after problems with pick on Sunday 20th October, meeting at the old ‘boy racers’. Mangotsfield railway station on the Bristol and Bath Signs have gone up all around the car park Railway Path. warning people that Automatic Number Plate The event is being organised by The Plastic Free Shop Recognition (ANPR) cameras are now in which is based at the Station Road Workshops in operation and there is no parking outside of store Kingswood. opening hours. Those who are in breach face a The pick along the path will run from 10am until around £70 fine. noon-12.30pm and all the equipment you need will be As we reported in Issue 592, young people provided. gathering in cars caused a headache for people There will be home-made chocolate brownies post-pick. living near the store in Craven Way during the August Bank Holiday weekend. The meet had been advertised on social media. Staff and local residents had reported noise nuisance with anti-social driving and loud music. The matter was raised at the September meeting of the local Community Engagement Forum when police said they were aware of the long- standing problem at the car park and do take action. The meeting heard that youths causing a nuisance by congregating and racing in the car park and along the nearby A4174 ring road and Stoneleigh Drive in their cars and on pushbikes. The police advised the meeting that they hold a beat surgery at Asda on alternate Wednesdays and Saturdays and urge residents to report any crimes via the 101 number.

The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 7 8 The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 WECA Committee Couple still in harmony meeting in Kingswood The next meeting of the West of England Combined Authority 60 years after marrying (WECA) Committee takes place this Friday (4th October) at 10am at Kingswood Civic Centre. A Keynsham couple have West of England Mayor, Tim Bowles, said: “We’ll be discussing celebrated their diamond investing in some major projects to benefit residents across our region. wedding anniversary. This will include extending our Future Bright skills scheme – which Cyril and Josie Edgell were is already helping residents in work and on benefits to improve their married on 26th September job prospects, security and income – and using our Land Acquisition 1959 at St Nicholas Church in Fund to make sure more new homes are built.” Whitchurch Village, followed by a honeymoon in Ilfracombe. The committee will be followed by a meeting of the West of England The couple had met at a dance Joint Committee, the decision-making body for issues relating to the at Sturminster Hall and courted West of England Combined Authority, Bath & North East Somerset, for a few years before marrying. Bristol, and South Gloucestershire councils, and the Cyril’s family ran a market West of England Local Enterprise Partnership. gardening business in Maggs Lane in Whitchurch and Josie, Cyril & Josie Edgell whose maiden name was gardening and they continue to enjoy their love of Bowden, came from Kylross Avenue in Whitchurch. Join the community ballroom by watching Strictly Come Dancing. The Edgells’ first home was in Brislington and they The couple celebrated their anniversary with an first moved to Keynsham in 1966. They have lived in clean-up in B&NES outing to their favourite pub in Thurloxton near their current home in the town since 1981. A call to action has been given to residents across Bath & North East Taunton and Josie says they were thrilled to receive a After they were married Cyril worked for Bristol congratulatory message from the Queen along with Somerset to join a week of community litter picking activities. Parks Department for a few years and then went into “masses of cards”. The council’s sustainability and waste teams, supported by sales. He then started a very successful property community group No Place for Litter, are running the ‘Big B&NES maintenance business which he ran until his Community Clean-Up’ in October and are offering communities retirement. support and guidance to run their own events. Josie meanwhile had various office jobs Individuals, neighbours, businesses, schools and community groups including working at Fry’s, later Cadbury’s, in are all encouraged to carry out a litter pick from 19th to 27th October. Keynsham. A calendar of activities will be produced so that everyone in Bath & The couple believe their marriage has been so North East Somerset can find out where to join an event near them. successful as they are “happy pottering along To have event details added to the Big B&NES Community Clean- together” and share similar interests. For many years their main interest was Up calendar, email [email protected]. People unable to boating. They kept a succession of boats on take part in a planned event are encouraged to carry out a the Thames upstream from . They have #2minutelitterpick during the week of action. The date of the litter also enjoyed caravanning and have travelled picking week has been chosen to coincide with the national Plastic all over the UK, as well as touring in France. Free Communities Autumn beach cleaning week, run by Surfers Cyril and Josie both enjoy playing and Against Sewage, which also aims to tackle plastic pollution. listening to organ music. Cyril still enjoys Sudoku SUNDAY CHEMISTS Sunday 6th October Boots, Gallagher Retail Park, Longwell Green 1-Easy 2 -Hard (10.30am-4pm) Asda, Longwell Green (10am-4pm) Boots, Emersons Green Retail Park (10.30am-4.30pm) Sainsbury’s, Emersons Green Retail Park (9.30am-4.30pm) Stockwood Pharmacy, 78 Hollway Road, BS14 8PG (9am-7pm) Keynsham Pharmacy, 15 Station Road, BS31 2BH (10am-4pm) Tesco, Callington Road, Brislington (10am to 4pm) Morrisons, 688-718 Fishponds Road, Fishponds (10am-4pm) Boots, Avonmeads Retail Park, St Philips Causeway (11am-5pm)

The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 9 LETTERS

Bus changes have made As Roger states, this is not a way to Service 178 to and from Radstock. Our aim week of August and found when I came back life more stressful encourage any users of the bus service and is to improve the reliability and punctuality that First had removed the 19:51 last bus especially does not help the older residents of the service as well as transferring the from Keynsham Church to the Estate. That Dear Becky of local villages to access vital services. With driver requirement away from Bath where, is an inconvenience to people who cannot The Week In is such a valuable source of an even larger population now in Bitton and as is well known, we always suffer from catch the now last 349 from Bristol (Church information and a really excellent way to surrounding areas, the traffic on the roads is shortages of drivers. at 18:56). I saw its removal on new express one’s concerns, plus reports on the not going to improve in the short term. The unfortunate consequence of this inter- timetables from early September. Was it local events. I would like to reiterate the Hopefully someone will take heed of working of the vehicles on Services 37 and publicised or just done quietly? I saw comments made by Roger Coales in his readers’ comments and restore a more 178 is that departure times on Service 37 had nothing about it in advance. letter in the 18th September edition and rational timetable on the 37 route. to change so that, for now, Services 19 and As you have the ear of First MD James endorse his “A cynical might suggest…” It has made my life so much more stressful 37 now run at similar times along their Freeman, perhaps you could ask him the sentence. since the changes. To add insult to injury the common section of route between Bath and following question: if you are now making a As a very regular user of services at the 19 bus, delayed by eight minutes sailed past Bitton. substantial saving on pulling the 19:51 bus, Royal United Hospital for the past four years me at the Golden Valley stop; this was a few This will be a temporary problem however, why can’t you, by the same obligational I try, whenever possible depending on weeks back before they changed the as we are looking to make some changes to logic above, support an earlier taxi starting appointment time, to use the buses on the 19 timetable. I had to wait for 20 minutes in the 19/19a services in New Year, although at 19:50 or thereabouts. It’s all very well and 37 route via Bitton, and also to Bristol very hot sun for the 37. Fortunately I had these have not yet been finalised. saying they can wait 20 minutes for the first bus station periodically for the Bristol Dental given myself time to walk up to the hospital James Freeman one at 20:10 but isn’t the reality that that is Hospital. (The 37 already being an hour and did get to my appointment on time but Managing Director an inconvenience for people who caught the service in that direction which makes a long was exhausted. I did complain to First Bus earlier one who are now, in this respect, day with an appointment there.) who did follow this up. paying the same for what is a reduced With the very recent move of users of the A Bitton resident service? You could actually fund it, you Mineral Water Hospital to the RUH site, Improving the bus know, by charging people a small fee who do there is even more demand on parking service to Park Estate MD responds to bus not have a paid pass, the usual 349 fare £1.20 spaces there which makes attending Dear Sir would be fine. Would it be so difficult to appointments even more stressful and service complaints I refer to Chris Thomas’s letter last week and check when people board? Isn’t this what challenging. The staff and the services at the Dear Editor am glad to hear an assurance that First bus drivers normally do? RUH are second to none but timings do not I would like to respond to the letter from currently (for now at least) has no intention Something puzzles me enormously about always run to time, similarly to buses Roger Coales of Oldland Common regarding of withdrawing support for the bus/taxi Keynsham’s “service” to the Park Estate on delayed by traffic problems, something the recent timetable changes to Service 37. service to the Park Estate in the evening. a Sunday (actually there isn’t any). I am which I can accept. On and from 1st September 2019 we made a In fairness to it, it does appear to work quite often down the town on a Sunday for several However, if the 19 and 37 run within the number of changes to our Service 37, which well. I am not aware that it is a “free” service hours. There are a total of nine hourly No 17 very short space of a couple of minutes as included changing the depot that provides as Chris states, nor a “social service”. I show buses that come through Keynsham on a just altered, this means waiting an hour for the service from Bath to Bristol and the way my travel pass every time I board the taxi. I Sunday from Southmead and nearly every the next one. Where is the sense in that? Last that we operate the service. pay First well over £600 per year for an single one of them seems to me to be just week at the Newbridge Hill stop they drew We do appreciate that this has had the effect annual ticket to take me from the Park Estate about empty. How difficult would it actually up one behind the other and I had, with a lot that during the off-peak period buses on to Bristol. be to re-route two or three of them up and of stress, only just managed to get there with routes 19 and 37 run close together between As I recall, First honoured this obligation back down to the Estate during the day? about seven minutes to spare or risk a very Cherry Gardens and Bath, whereas ideally (taking me back to Park Estate where I start There is some demand for it and always was long wait. Either on very hot days as in they would run half an hour apart. my journey) by funding the taxi and saving (increased I would imagine with the new recent weeks or on very cold days and, with The reason for the changed time is that the money on a driver, fuel and cost of running development at Bilbie Green, judging by the health issues and fatigue in my case, does me buses on Service 37 now inter-works with a large bus where the demand for one was number of people who now get on there nor other users any benefit. another route from , apparently not there. I was away the last

10 The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 LETTERS during the day). to Keynsham who tell me that the High The system is making Keynsham a more can dispute that. That's why it should remain At the moment certain groups of people are Street is a great place to go to. One Temple healthy, clean air place to live, shop and as it is: one-way. Cars coming from Bristol stuck on the Estate on Sundays, including the Street trader since the changes told me work. can either access Temple Street via Ashton elderly, infirm and large families with no “Keynsham is really buzzing” and more Alan Hale (Cllr) Way or round Avon Mill Lane. How much private transport. I don’t regard First as a recently another trader in Temple Street was Keynsham South Ward time would that add to their journey? Two social service but the solution is there, is it on Radio Bristol extolling the virtues of the minutes in the first instance? And five in the not? First can be creative when it wants to town. So presumably people are finding their Readers can judge for second? Is that too much inconvenience for be, for example putting an early 19A to Bath way to them. the benefit of having a less polluted and less up the Estate during the week and one back More recently we have seen ‘Bristol themselves noisy High Street where most people walk, in the evening, but it seems to me First use Gadgets’ come to the town. When I asked the Dear Editor do their shopping or have coffee? what creativity they have very sparingly gentleman there why he came to Keynsham, Re C Oliver’s letter in Issue 595, I can't see As for the argument of wants and needs I indeed. No 17 non-Estate, 17A Estate, just when a handful of others are blaming their how giving my name strengthens or have to say it left me puzzled. Of course like the 19/19A, sounds pretty simple to me. business problems on the new traffic system, undermines my argument. It is unrelated. people have wants and needs. And café Lionel Hutt he told me that there was a gap in the town This personalisation is often employed by culture is great. Are we being asked to Keynsham for their business and he told me words to those who are vaguely aware of the believe that people would choose to drive to the effect that if businesses know what they weakness of their argument and are vaguely Longwell Green for their wants and needs are doing, doing it well and welcoming to attempting to shift the focus elsewhere by rather than park in Ashton Way and walk Keynsham’s one-way their customers, then they will have custom. making it personal. In the same way, down to the High Street? Oh dear! system is working Finally I must address Mr Oliver’s insulting my intelligence aims at the same A Keynsham resident Dear Editor contention that “My issue is that letting thing. Neither my identity nor my Full name and address supplied ‘False Argument’ (Letters, Issue 594) was a traffic out the end of the High Street into intelligence are related to the rightness or very blunt but in my view correct Temple Street without increasing pollution otherwise of what I say. Readers can judge observation of a town in the main getting on is possible and that pollution levels have for themselves. I'm surprised that I need to with life. There are thousands of cars coming risen elsewhere in the town as a result of the point that out. Write to us to the town for one reason or another whose one-way system”. This, after telling the letter Those who come to Keynsham to 'nip' in for drivers are not lambasting the council about necessities. It's hard to believe that someone writer, “if you used your intelligence to do The Week In is independent of any political who comes to Keynsham, let's say from a one-way system that people are ably some research, instead of making unfounded or commercial interest. We aim to produce Saltford, to do some shopping have allowed negotiating. comments, you would know this”. a balanced and accurate view of local news themselves just enough time to 'nip' in. That Addressing Mr Oliver’s letter in Issue 595, Well Mr Oliver, I have done my research and and welcome comments from our readers. would be unlikely, not to say unwise. you will not find me ‘hiding’ as he puts it, by it is not unfounded, the result of which is Normally, we will publish letters in full but not putting my name, so it was not this below: Pollution has increased elsewhere in reserve the right to shorten or clarify the B&NES councillor and I suspect no other. Micrograms per metre cubed of nitrogen Keynsham because of the one-way system contents or to refuse publication. Please try I do not believe his assertion that many dioxide: may be true if we mean Ashton Way. But in to keep letters under 300 words and supply people are put off coming to Keynsham to • Rock Road: 24 in July (2014 – 28, 2016 – Ashton Way there are no shops and very few your full name and address for reasons of shop or socialise; if that is the case why are 26 - improvement) people walking compared to those in the authentication. Only the name and district the car parks not empty? I think it is great • High Street: 33 this year and last (2016 – High Street. Plus, the open space because of where you live will be reproduced. that we have very busy coffee shops and no 40 - improvement) the big car park enables pollution to disperse. Anonymity is possible under certain doubt the people that frequent them also use • Bath Hill near Back Lane: 25 this year and As I said last time, that part of the High circumstances. local shops that provide what they want last (2014 – 36, 2016 – 31 - improvement) Street from the junction with Charlton Road Copy can be sent by post or, preferably, e- when they want it. • Ashton Way: 23 this year and last (2016 – to where it joins Temple Street provides a mail and should arrive at our offices no Representing as I do four brand new housing 26 improvement) healthier and more pleasant, civilised later than 9.00am on the Monday of each developments, I speak to many new people • Government expectation: 40. environment for those who use it. Nobody week. E-mail to:[email protected]

The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 11 Cannabis plants worth Organisations invited to apply £1.1m seized from for £60k Continuation Fund Local organisations who improve the funding brand new projects. Kingswood industrial unit lives of older people are being invited The Community Impact Team are keen Police have seized more than 1,000 to apply to a new 60k fund being to hear from local organisations and cannabis plants with a potential street launched by the St Monica Trust’s there is potential for extending funding value of more than £1.1m from an Community Impact Team. for a further 12 or 24 months following industrial unit in Kingswood. The Continuation Fund will award the first year of continuation funding. Information provided by a member of the funding up to a maximum of £20,000 to Organisations can apply by for the public led officers to the unit in Moravian organisations who are already working Continuation Fund by downloading an Road. to improve the lives of individuals aged application form at They discovered electricity had been diverted 55+. The aim of the fund is to support www.stmonicatrust.org.uk/supporting- from a nearby substation to power the organisations within Bristol, South communities/community-fund and equipment used to grow the plants. Western Gloucestershire, B&NES and North sending the completed application Power Distribution have since made the Somerset to continue doing the good forms to the St Monica Trust by midday building safe. work that they already do, rather than on Friday 25th October. The cannabis and equipment were removed Abstracting electricity in the way done at this by the Operation Viscount team before unit is obviously illegal but it’s also specialist crime scene investigators examined extremely dangerous. It can be a real fire the unit. The drugs will now be destroyed. hazard. PC Henry Bird said: “Those responsible for “It’s thanks to the information provided to us producing these plants were not doing it as a by a member of the community we were able Burglars steal cash, hobby or for their own personal use, they are to take the action we did and I hope this organised criminals who we believe were reassures people we will always listen to you. jewellery and Mercedes exploiting vulnerable people to “Please keep coming to us with information, unscrupulously line their pockets. it really does make a difference to disrupting A home in Acacia Road in Staple Hill was burgled on Saturday 21st September. “This seizure is a significant blow to these organised crime, safeguarding vulnerable After forcing the rear gate to enter the back garden, the offenders then forced the criminals and has prevented a large amount people often trafficked or kept as slaves and rear door to enter the home. The bedrooms were search and various items were of drugs from hitting our streets and having to preventing the sale of illegal drugs in our taken, including cash and jewellery and the keys to a white Mercedes C Class - a detrimental effect on our communities.” communities.” registration number WN15 FCV - which was then stolen from the driveway. He added: “Not only is there often a very If you have information about a suspected If you have any information regarding this incident, contact the police on 101 or human cost to organised cannabis grows such crime, call 101 or Crimestoppers Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. as this but they also pose a very real risk. anonymously on 0800 555 111. Crossword ACROSS DOWN 1. Abducted (9) 1. Sleep (inf.) (3) 6. Yes vote (3) 2. Lament (5) 8. Root vegetable (7) 3. Female relative (4) 9. Small fragment (5) 4. Condiment (6) 10. Edible fat (4) 5. Twilight (4) 11. Harden (3) 6. Based on hypothesis 13. German city (4) (1,6) 14. Pulsate (5) 7. Costly (9) 16. Tufted beard (6) 10. Indicated (9) 18. Elk (6) 11. Hard covering (5) 19. Narrow lane (5) 12. Pulled behind (5) 21. In the middle of (4) 14. Beverage (3) 22. Boy (3) 15. Alcove (3) 23. Wind instrument (4) 17. Mythical Greek princess (7) 27. Shelf (5) 20. Famous film dog (6) 28. Young tree (7) 24. Ecstasy (5) 30. Expected (3) 25. Apportion (4) 31. Mid-morning snack (9) 26. Church recess (4) 29. Domestic fuel (3)

12 The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 Learn to ride a Thunderbirds fan commissions bike this autumn respray for his truck South Gloucestershire Council’s Bikeability team are offering ‘Learn to Ride’ lessons this October. It’s always nice that readers use the services of our The lessons are ideal for adults who never learned to advertisers but when those readers are also clients of The ride a bike, or who would benefit from some support Week In, that’s even more satisfying. to return to cycling after a long break, or perhaps have Mike and Gill Punter have run the Riverbank Art Centre in experienced a loss of confidence due to injury, Pool Road, Kingswood since 2001. When the red paint on accident or illness. Lessons will be carried out from their Mitsubishi L200 began to flake, they contacted Warmley Wheelers, based next to the Bristol and Bath Autospray in Longwell Green. Railway Path, and take place in Warmley Forest Park. That’s where it ceased to be straightforward! As well as All lessons are free of charge but attendees have the designing and delivering art lessons, Mike is also a model option to make a donation to Warmley Wheelers, a enthusiast and a fan of the Sylvia and Gerry Anderson TV cycling scheme that gives everyone the chance to get puppet series from the 1960s and ’70s. From a simple patch- into cycling. It is not a problem if you do not own a up job it was decided to upscale to a complete respray to turn Before bike as bikes and relevant equipment will be available the pick-up into … Thunderbird 2! if required. Lessons will be available every Thursday Paul and Dan at Autospray matched the paint colour and set during October at either 9.45am to 10.45am or 11am about what was to become the biggest single job they had to noon. To book, or for any questions email undertaken since opening their business on Kingsfield Lane [email protected] last year. Ultimately, it required 110 hours of labour but the

Variety show auditions Saltford Community Association is organising variety performances on 8th and 9th May 2020 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day. If you are aged 16 or over and able to perform something either directly from the wartime era or After perhaps with a modern twist, then variety show auditions will be taking place on Saturday 9th end result was a stunning green vehicle in showroom November from 1pm to 4.30pm at Saltford Hall. condition. For more information and to express your interest And as a gesture to Mike’s passion for all things Anderson, email [email protected] Thunderbirds are go they added their own Thunderbird personalisation. Have your say at forums The next meeting of the Kingswood Community Engagement Forum (CEF) will be on Wednesday 16th October from 7pm to 9pm at New Community Centre. And the Hanham and Longwell Green CEF is taking place on Thursday 17th October from 7pm to 9pm at All Saints United Church in Longwell Green. Everyone is welcome to attend these forums which are organised by South Gloucestershire Council. You can raise any improvements or issues you may have, or simply come along and listen to what is being discussed for your area.

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The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 13 OUT & ABOUT – Your guide to what’s on in October Chew Valley Arts Trail This year’s Chew Valley Arts Trail takes place on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October. In what will be the 17th year of the trail, 25 art and craft venues around the valley will open their doors between 10am and 6pm. Entrance is free. For full details of the locations visit www.chewvalleyartstrail.co.uk or call 01275 333128 Apple Day at community orchard Fishponds Community Orchard is holding an Apple Day this Sunday (6th October) from 2pm to 5pm. There will be free entrance to the event at the orchard which is on the Thingwall Park Allotment Site. It provides a space for people and wildlife to enjoy and is an educational resource. There will be apple tasting, juicing, ciders, jams, chutneys and cakes at the Apple Day. The orchard is managed organically and grows local varieties of apples. Members meet monthly to carry out seasonal tasks. They pay £5 per annum and have fruit when available but you do not have to be a member to enjoy the space. To become a member contact [email protected] Concert in aid of Poppy Appeal The Royal British Legion are proud to present the Morriston Orpheus Choir in concert at St John’s Church in Keynsham on Saturday 19th October, starting at 7.30pm. The concert is in aid of the Poppy Appeal. Tickets are available from the Parish Office, priced £15. For more information email [email protected] Who Killed the Vicar? The East Bristol Players will present a thriller by Paul Denyer called Who Killed the Vicar? at St Aidan’s Church in St George on 18th and 19th October. Seats are £8 (£6 for 12s and under) and can be pre-booked by emailing [email protected] The bar opens at 6.45pm prior to curtain up at 7.30pm.

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The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 17 Crackdown on Police seek motorists flouting volunteers Avon & Somerset police are looking for Keynsham volunteers to join their B&NES Independent Advisory parking restrictions Group (IAG). IAG members are volunteers drawn from communities Civil enforcement officers are carrying out more Road in Longwell Green. from various backgrounds. patrols in the Oldland Common and Longwell Green After the meeting it was arranged to increase the number They have an interest in policing and its effect on area after complaints about parking on double yellow of patrols for a few weeks. communities and offer independent advice and play a lines. Mike Barnes, the council’s parking manager, said the role in helping the police build trust, confidence At last month’s meeting of the Community Engagement latest figures showed that since the beginning of April and better relationships, especially with diverse Forum for the Oldland Common, North Common, Bitton, there had not been any patrols in Long Beach Road but in communities Parkwall and Willsbridge area, concern was expressed Shellards Road there had been 41 patrols and two Penalty To volunteer email jon.bagnowiec@avonandsomerset. regarding parking on recently introduced double yellow Charge Notices (PCNs) issued. In High Street, there had police.uk lines, in particular in High Street and West Street in been 34 patrols and eight PCNs, while in West Street there Oldland Common, and in Long Beach Road and Shellards had been 15 patrols and one PCN issued. Situations Vacant

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18 The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 Advertising feature Step inside Bristol’s Sixth Form College As the summer draws to a close, students and staff at St Brendan’s Sixth Form College are settling in well to another year of post-16 life. As the only Sixth Form College in the region, St Brendan’s is a popular choice for learners who are ready to embrace the next step and this year the College welcomed a record number of new students to their campus. With over 1000 16-17 year olds enrolling at St Brendan’s this September, it would seem it’s becoming ‘the place to be’ for young adults across Bristol, Bath, South Gloucestershire and beyond. With state of the art facilities and an impressive choice of A-level and Applied General subjects to choose from, the Brislington-based College is attracting students from far and wide and looks set to continue its growth into the new year. In the midst of educational funding cuts across the country, St Brendan’s is proud to have been able to continue to grow its curriculum and boasts a huge range of courses which are not available to students elsewhere. Amongst its large provision of over 60 different subjects, today’s educational landscape. and a transformed library space which now includes a the College is still managing to provide students with a In addition to an increasing choice of courses, St university-style silent study zone. fantastic choice of languages and has been consistently Brendan’s also has its sights set firmly on developing its St Brendan’s Sixth Form College will be opening its doors adding courses for linguists rather than cutting, as is the state-of-the-art facilities further, for students to enjoy a to Year 11 students and their families on Saturday 5th trend elsewhere. St Brendan’s also offers a full choice of first-class education. After their summer break, students October (10am – 2:30pm) for its first Open Day of the Music courses to post-16 learners; an unusual find in returned to College to find a new suite of Mac computers academic year. Visit www.stbrn.ac.uk for further details.

The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 19 Former Scouts enjoy museum exhibition One of the special 2019 season exhibits at The District now comprises 17 Scout Kingswood Heritage Museum focuses on groups, and the museum display portrays Scouting in the area. From its beginnings the history of many of these, including the in the early years of the 20th century, 24th, 28th, 29th, 46th and 54th. Scouting established itself in the Bristol One panel of the display covers the 111th area after the Great War, and the exhibition (Holy Trinity) Kingswood group, and the covers its development since then, museum was recently pleased to welcome culminating in the creation of the former members of that troop to the Kingswood District in 1974. exhibition, pictured above.

20 The Week in • Wednesday 2nd October 2019 Final consultation Mobile speed camera locations Here are the locations in our area where you Hengrove Lane, Cadogan Road, Tarnock can expect to see police mobile speed Avenue and Great Hayles Road; in on clean air cameras this week (starting 30th Whitchurch on Whitchurch Lane and September). Hazelbury Road; in Stockwood on Ladman Bath & North East Somerset: Road, Sturminster Road and Stockwood zone for Bath In Keynsham on Queens Road, Albert Lane; also on Gordon Avenue in Whitehall. Road, Coronation Avenue and Rock Road; South Gloucestershire: Postcards are going out to all homes and further extensions to the zone’s boundary in Saltford on Manor Road, Norman Road In Upton Cheyney on Brewery Hill and businesses in Bath & North East Somerset and proposals to restrict the flow of traffic and Grange Road; on the A431 Kelston Marshfield Lane; in Longwell Green on and in villages nearby, highlighting final into Queen Square – a measure that Road; on the A37 Pensford Hill. Court Farm Road and Ellacombe Road; in plans for a clean air zone (CAZ) in Bath. enables private cars to be exempt from Bristol: Hanham on Abbots Road and Whittucks The class C zone will charge all higher charges. In Brislington on the A4174 Callington Road; in Oldland on the A4175 Barry Road emission vehicles, except private cars and Residents will also be able to see detailed Road, Allison Road, Talbot Road, and High Street and Mill Lane; on the A431 motorbikes, to drive in Bath’s city centre maps of the zone, including the placement Hungerford Road and Wick Road; in St Bath Road at Swineford; on Tower Lane in by the end of 2020. of cameras and signage, and those affected George on the A420 Bell Hill Road/Two Warmley; on the A4174 Avon Ring Road The council is inviting everyone who lives by charges will be able to find out more Mile Hill Road, Hillside Road, Nags Head near Junction 1 of the M32 and at Bromley and works in the area to review the final about the financial and practical support Hill, Air Balloon Road, Blackswarth Road Heath; at Henfield Road in Henfield; on the details of the CAZ, which will charge available. and the Kingsway; in Hengrove on the A37 B4465 Westerleigh Road at Pucklechurch; higher emission buses, coaches and HGVs Further information and consultation Wells Road, A4174 Hengrove Way, on Blackhorse Road in Mangotsfield; also £100 a day; and vans, taxis, private hire questionnaires are available online at Hengrove Avenue, Petherton Road, on Overndale Road in Downend. vehicles and minibuses £9 a day to drive www.bathnes.gov.uk/breathe and in print in the city centre. This is before final plans at B&NES libraries and One Stop Shops. for the zone are agreed with the Businesses and individuals interested in government in December. financial assistance to upgrade vehicles Roadworks in B&NES The consultation, which started last week that are affected by charges can find out B&NES Council is advising the following planned roadworks in the area. and runs to 20th October, highlights more at www.bathnes.gov.uk/CAZsupport A431 Bath Road, Kelston Temporary two way signals will be in place (off peak only) for works by BT. 4th to 8th October. A3062 Pennyquick Hill, Temporary two way signals will be in place (off peak only) for repair works by BT. 10th to 14th October. Kindness festival cancelled You can also follow @BATHNESHighways and @bathnes on Twitter for notices and This year’s Keynsham Kindness Festival was scheduled to take place in November alerts or visit www.roadworks.org to see details of planned works near you. has had to be cancelled. but manpower problems have meant The event, which has been organised by there is no coordinator available this the charity Keynsham Action Network, year. Attempted burglary in Hanham There was an attempt to break into a home on Hanham High Street between 10am and 6pm on Monday 23rd September. Keep in touch, let us know what you A crow-bar type implement was used to try to force the patio doors. think, send us your news If you have any information regarding this incident, contact the police on 101. www.facebook.com/theweekin Alternatively you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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