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Parking charges a ‘nail in the coffin’ for traders
DRIVERS using three Staple Hill car parks will have to pay a minimum of £3 to park there from early next year. Details of new...
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Developer unveils plans for 150 homes
A HOUSEBUILDER has unveiled plans to build 150 new homes on a Green Belt site in Mangotsfield. Taylor Wimpey owns a field which lies between...
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DOWNEND FOLK & ROOTS REVIEW:
FILKIN’S DRIFT + MICHELLE HOLLOWAY FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2024 After a fantastic tenth birthday party in July, Downend Folk & Roots took a well-deserved summer...
Lifestyle
DOWNEND FOLK & ROOTS PREVIEW:
GRANNY’S ATTIC + HEATHER FERRIER FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2024 It’s hard to believe that Granny’s Attic have been playing and touring together for 15 years,...
Lifestyle
October 2024: Downend Folk & Roots
DOWNEND FOLK & ROOTS PREVIEW: RACHAEL McSHANE & THE CARTOGRAPHERS + JOHNNY CAMPBELL FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2024 It is perhaps a marker of the quality...
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SEPTEMBER 2024: DOWNEND FOLK & ROOTS REVIEW:
10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION WEEKEND FRIDAY 19TH-SUNDAY 21ST JULY 2024 In a time when live music venues are struggling, when any number of festivals have packed...
Lifestyle
SEPTEMBER 2024: DOWNEND FOLK & ROOTS PREVIEW:
FILKIN’S DRIFT + MICHELLE HOLLOWAY FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2024 Downend Folk & Roots return to their normal third-Friday-of-the-month pattern after the excitement of their 10th...
Lifestyle
August 2024: DOWNEND FOLK & ROOTS PREVIEW:
AUTUMN WINTER PROGRAMME 2024 Downend Folk & Roots have announced their lineup for Autumn/Winter 2024, and as usual, it’s a great mix of the traditional...
Lifestyle
August 2024: DOWNEND FOLK & ROOTS REVIEW
NANCY KERR & JAMES FAGAN + DAVID MITCHELL FRIDAY 21 JUNE 2024, CHRIST CHURCH DOWNEND Nancy Kerr & James Fagan have been doing this for...
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High-flying Cleve are feeling good
CLEVE are flying high. They have started the season well and there is a feel-good attitude at the club. In late September the first team...
Sports
Ground works on course
MANGOTSFIELD United’s new pitch is on track to be ready for use in November. Contractors Tiger Turf and McCardle sent bulldozers in to the Cossham...
Sports
Page Park bowlers win promotion
PAGE Park Bowls Club is marking the end of another successful season with two of the four men’s league teams winning promotion. The club’s second...
Sports
Hockey club gets new pitch and kit
BRISTOL & West Hockey Club members are looking forward to playing on a new pitch thanks to a refurbishment project carried out at Mangotsfield School....
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Opinion
Letters November 2024
Leap Valley needs new friends Friends of Leap Valley volunteers clearing weed from a pond. MANY of you will know that the Friends of Leap...
Opinion
October 2024: Letters to the editor
Post office is a disgrace IS Morrisons trying to close down Downend post office, which actually is owned and run (ruined?) by it? Since it...
Opinion
September 2024: Opinion
Power of the press? MY thanks to the Downend Voice for achieving in ‘hours’ what an individual taxpayer and an entire parish council couldn’t achieve...
Opinion
Brambles are growing out of pavement
THESE blackberries should be sweet and juicy ready for picking around late August – and what’s more, they will be free to anyone passing. There...
Opinion
Letters: July 2024
Book will help charities I’M a Downend resident who has written a book on the challenges I have faced from mental health, domestic violence and...
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Park ‘leak’ is part of nature
I AM a Downend resident, and past generations of my family have lived in the area, for a couple of hundred years at least. I...
Opinion
Opinion: Letters April 2024
Help make our fun day a success IGNITE Life supports marginalised young people through counselling, food support and mentoring, providing essential services across South Gloucestershire...
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