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Don't Be a Tosser, Take Your Litter Home THE WEEK IN East Bristol & North East Somerset FREE Issue 634 1st July 2020 Read by more than 40,000 people each week Don’t be a tosser, take your litter home A significant increase in rubbish left in parks and intended to cause offence to anyone but that the open spaces – including beauty spots in Saltford – message must be hard-hitting to tackle the issue. since lockdown eased has led to B&NES Council Anyone caught littering can be issued with a £150 fine. launching an anti-littering campaign with the David Wood, Cabinet member for Climate Emergency powerful message ‘Don’t be a tosser’. and Neighbourhood Services, said: “Since lockdown With the council’s cleansing team having dealt with restrictions have eased, littering problems across our more than 120 littering incidents in the district in May area have gone up. Our waste team and the volunteers and June this year alone, the message needs to be clear who work hard to support us are fed up with picking up that people’s rubbish is their responsibility and they rubbish. It needs to stop now. Littering is illegal, anti- must use a bin or take their litter home. social, has a negative impact on our environment and Temporary ‘Don’t be a tosser’ signs are going up in costs thousands of pounds each year to clear.” parks and open spaces in Keynsham, Saltford and Bath The most common items littered in parks and open in locations where littering has become a real problem. spaces include gas canisters, balloons, glass, disposable The council is making clear that the notices are not barbecues, plastic bottles, cans and bags of dog foul. Initially the signs are being installed in Saltford by the public loos at The Shallows as well as in Mead Lane and along the riverbank near the Bird in Hand. In Keynsham they are going in Memorial Park by the café/play park and at the exit to Station Road. Also in this Hanham singer wows Pubs and hair salons gear High street changes for Plans approved for country music fans up for reopening Keynsham and Staple Hill former Wick pub week’s issue . page 4 . page 7 . pages 10 & 11 . page 12 2 The Week in • Wednesday 1st July 2020 £220k worth of cannabis seized and man arrested in Fishponds Police discovered and seized more than 220 cannabis investigation continued. plants worth approximately £220,000 from a property Acting Inspector Jennifer Appleford, in the Fishponds area last Friday morning. from Operation Remedy, said: The plants were located by officers from Operation “We’re extremely pleased with this Remedy following information provided by members of significant find which came as a the community. direct result from information A man was arrested in connection with this incident as the provided by the public. “Those responsible for producing these plants were not doing it as a Fault with ‘view hobby or for their own personal use, they’re organised criminals who we the queue’ believe were exploiting vulnerable A reader contacted us to say that the link to the ‘view the people to unscrupulously line their queue’ camera, which we included in our story in Issue pockets. 632 about reduced opening hours at Mangotsfield Sort “This seizure is a significant blow to It centre, did not work. these criminals and has prevented a He contacted South Gloucestershire Council and was large amount of drugs from ending pose a significant fire hazard. told the cameras are not currently working and the up on our streets and having a detrimental impact on our “It’s thanks to the information provided to us by members council’s contractor Suez is aware of the problem. communities. of the community we were able to take the action we did. The link to the camera allows residents to check how “Not only is there often a very human cost to organised Please keep coming to us with information, it really does busy it is at the centre before they set off but it was still cannabis grows such as this, but they also pose a very real make a difference to disrupting organised crime, not working as we went to print this week. risk. Abstracting electricity in the way done at this unit is safeguarding vulnerable people and preventing the sale of not only illegal, it’s also extremely dangerous and can illegal drugs in our communities.” The Week in • Wednesday 1st July 2020 3 THE WEEK IN Kelsey Bovey Barrs Court, Bitton, Brislington, Cadbury Heath, Compton Dando, Corston, Downend, Emersons Green, Fishponds, Hanham, Hillfields, Meet the rising country Keynsham, Kingswood, Longwell Green, Mangotsfield, Marksbury, music star from Hanham North Common, Oldland Common, A teenager from Hanham is wowing trauma. Pucklechurch, Saltford, Staple Hill, country music fans with her songs. She is keen for her music to help empower Stockwood, St George, Warmley, Whitchurch, Wick, Willsbridge. Kelsey Bovey channels her experience of other young people. As well as drawing from being bullied at school into her music. The her personal experiences, she says she finds 16,000 copies are distributed through retail outlets, libraries, pubs, country-pop singer-songwriter released her inspiration everywhere, including from community centres each week. appropriately titled new EP - Not Scared situations that others find themselves in. Verified pick-up rate of 97%. Anymore – on Friday and it went in at No 1 Kelsey has recorded seven tracks so far, the Publisher in the UK Country iTunes Charts and No 19 first back in 2018, and has been described as Keynsham & Saltford Times Ltd, 8 Temple Court, Keynsham. BS31 1HA in the all genres chart. one of Duggystone Radio’s Emerging Artists 0117 986 0381 Earlier this summer the 19-year-old’s single to watch. The inspirational teenager is www.theweekin.co.uk Magnetic reached No 2 in the UK Country currently studying songwriting at university ISSN: 2052-9767 iTunes Charts. and records at Puzzle Makers Studio in Kelsey, who says her influences include Bristol. She has also been working with the Managing Editor Stephen Rodgers [email protected] News Editor Becky Feather 07403 273967 Taylor Swift and Shania Twain, started Bristol-based country artist Danny Contributors Christine Rogers playing the piano when she was eight. She McMahon who last year scooped three then trained in classical singing and took up awards at the UK Country music awards. Advertising Jodie Deason and Tracy Broderick the guitar when she was 14. She has recently been taken on by Scarlet 0117 986 0381 She says the bullying started at school during River Management who specialise in modern [email protected] her GCSE year, knocking her confidence and country music. @theweekineditor affecting her mental health, and she needed Find out more and listen to Kelsey’s music No material in this publication, nor its associated website (www.theweekin.co.uk) may counselling to help her get through the at www.facebook.com/kelseyboveyuk/ be reproduced without the written permission of Keynsham & Saltford Times Ltd. All rights reserved. Keynsham & Saltford Times Ltd. t/a The Week In is regulated by IMPRESS: The Independent Tools stolen from depot Monitor for the Press CIC. As such, we adhere to the IMPRESS complaints procedure. A copy of this procedure can be found on our website or can be Alide Hire Services say burglars who broke into their depot at Burnett caused damage sent upon written request to the address above. and stole £5,500 worth of tools. The stolen items included a Hilti cordless angle grinder, a Hilti breaker and a Stihl saw. 4 The Week in • Wednesday 1st July 2020 The Week in • Wednesday 1st July 2020 5 6 The Week in • Wednesday 1st July 2020 Pubs prepare Keeping staff and customers safe Strict measures will be in place to reopen at pubs and bars when they Many pubs, bars, cafés and restaurants Compton Inn at Compton Dando and the reopen to ensure everyone’s will be reopening this Saturday (4th Maes Knoll at Whitchurch Village. safety. July) in line with the Government Wetherspoons pubs are also expected to At Wetherspoons pubs, large announcing further easements of the open on Saturday along with local chain groups will be discouraged and coronavirus restrictions. Grounded, which has bars in Keynsham, furniture will be removed, or Among those welcoming customers this Brislington, Fishponds and Redfield. rearranged. Protective screens will weekend are the Bird in Hand, Jolly Sailor, Pubs planning to open on Monday include help ensure social distancing and the Riverside and the Crown in Saltford; the Talbot in Keynsham, the Rose & screens will also be located at tills. the Brassmill, the Charlton, the Trout and Crown at Wick, the Portcullis in Staple There will be an average of 10 Pomegranate in Keynsham;; the Blue Hill, the Lodekka in Brislington and the hand-sanitiser stations at most Bowl in Hanham; the Midland Spinner in Mill House at Emersons Green. pubs in the chain and dedicated Warmley and the White Harte at The Lock Keeper in Keynsham and the employees will be deployed, at all Bridgeyate; the Crown & Horseshoe and Chequers in Hanham have said they won’t times, to clean and sanitise the the Dolphin in Oldland Common; the be reopening until 20th July, while pub, including the toilets. Tables Lamb at Cadbury Heath; the Crown at others have yet to announce when they will be cleared and sanitised after Longwell Green; the Red Lion and will do so. use. And entrance doors will be Grapevine Brasserie in Mangotsfield; Some pubs have diversified and been pinned open to increase air flow Kingswood Entertainment & Sports Club; running a takeaway service or delivering and reduce hand contact points.
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