A local ambulance charity helped open the new Asda Filton supermarket today, following the store’s search for a ‘local hero’. Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) celebrated with more than 400 customers, Asda colleagues, the Chair of South Gloucestershire Council Cllr Ian Boulton and a host of local community figures, for what was a grand opening to remember. The charity
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Planners at South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) have granted permission for the Filton Park (Texaco) Service Station on Gloucester Road North to be demolished and replaced with four retail units and a café. The site lies between the junctions of Braemar Avenue and Broncksea Road and is separated from a block of shops and apartments to the south by a row
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A brand new supermarket is looking to build relationships with local groups when it opens its doors on Monday 2nd December. Asda Filton is calling on any group from a scout troop, to a charity, nursery school or voluntary organisation to visit the store to look at ways it can work with colleagues in the future. Anne Maddox, community life
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Police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down jewellery that was stolen from a house in Filton. Detectives investigating a burglary in Broncksea Road, on Saturday 19th October, have released photographs of some of the items of jewellery stolen in the break-in. It happened between 4pm and 11pm, when thieves forced a small window to get into the
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Four people escaped unhurt after fire from a car which had been set alight spread to a house in Filton. The incident happened at around 2am on Monday morning (21st October) in Kipling Road. A car parked on a driveway was set on fire and this spread to the house. The fire caused significant damage to the house. There were
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South Gloucestershire Council is warning that overnight resurfacing work due to take place at the A38 Filton Roundabout for an estimated eleven nights from tomorrow (Monday 14th October) will “create a significant amount of noise”. The works will involve the planing off of the existing surface of the carriageway and the laying of a new surface. The work will start
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced that the Conygre ward of Filton is to get its own volunteer-run bus service, thanks to the award of a £50,000 government grant. The money, from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF), has been awarded to the Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP), which will use it to purchase a low-floor minibus. The Conygre area has been without
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Residents in Filton took time out to look at Merlin Housing Society’s plans for the development of 16 new homes on a site in Roycroft Road. Around 40 people attended a public consultation event at Newleaze House to view the plans before the housing association submits its planning application. The plans include six two-bed houses, four three-bed houses and six
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Residents of between 20 and 30 homes in the Eighth Avenue area of Filton had to be evacuated on Friday evening (6th September) after gas cylinders were placed on a bonfire. Avon Fire & Rescue Service reports that an oxygen cylinder and an acetylene cylinder had been placed on the fire. Crews from Southmead and Patchway fire stations were called
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Applications are now open for 220 jobs at the new Asda Filton store, which will be located at Abbey Wood Retail Park. Asda’s first store in Filton opens this November and applicants wishing to express an interest in the jobs should visit www.asda.jobs/hourly. New store manager, Dave Rolph, said: “At Asda we recruit for attitude and train for skill. We
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