Downend Voice

09/12/2024

60-year-old Downend man started fire that also engulfed hedges and two cars

A POLICE worker who started a fire that damaged cars, hedges and a house in Downend has been given a suspended prison sentence. Mark Pickford set fire to a tree on Badminton Road on the evening of June 2 last year. The fire destroyed two hedges and two BMW cars as well as damaging the […]

08/12/2024

Slightly out of our area but worth knowing if you use one of these car parks to go shopping

DRIVERS will have to start paying to park in two Fishponds car parks after the city council voted to introduce charges – just three months after rejecting them. Councillors on the transport and connectivity policy committee voted 7-2 to introduce pay and display charges at Beechwood Road, Stoke Vi...

30/11/2024

Jake Skinner's fundraising Christmas lights display for Macmillan Cancer Support in Sutherland Avenue, Downend, switched on for the festive season yesterday - the lights will now be on every night until December 27 from 5-8pm. More details at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1624896321094784/user/100027003690761/

29/11/2024

'I can’t comprehend how such a heinous act could have been committed by his own son,' says killer's sister after murder in Hambrook

A MAN who killed his 93-year-old father at the home they shared in Hambrook has been jailed after admitting murder. Gary Moore (pictured above, left), aged 65, must serve a minimum of 12 years of a life sentence imposed at Bristol Crown Court today for suffocating his dad Robert, better known as Bob...

26/11/2024

https://downendvoice.co.uk/2024/11/26/dream-comes-true-for-ava/

SINGER Ava Mannings has left the Downend dog grooming parlour where she worked behind to record an album after winning national TV talent contest The Voice UK. Ava, aged 21, won a record deal with Universal Music UK’s Island EMI label, £50,000 and an all-expenses-paid holiday when the ITV1 show.....

26/11/2024

https://downendvoice.co.uk/2024/11/26/three-weekly-black-bin-collections-confirmed/

BLACK bins will only be collected once every three weeks under a new contract with the waste firm Suez signed by South Gloucestershire Council. Leaders say the change, which will come into force in 2026, will drive up recycling rates. But opposition councillors have warned the changes could create a...

26/11/2024

https://downendvoice.co.uk/2024/11/26/new-pitch-is-ready-after-1-2m-project/

26/11/2024

https://downendvoice.co.uk/2024/11/26/pavilion-is-put-in-its-place/

DOWNEND’S new pavilion has been installed on King George V playing field. Contractors used a huge crane to lower the individual parts of the modular building into place between November 12 and 14. They are due to spend four weeks fitting out the building, connecting it to electricity and water sup...

25/11/2024

Police car was answering an emergency call on blue lights

A PEDESTRIAN suffered “potentially life-changing” injuries when she was hit by a police car on a roundabout on the Avon Ring Road. Avon & Somerset police said the unmarked car was responding to an emergency and using its blue lights and siren when it was in collision with a 19-year-old woman at ...

23/11/2024

Mangotsfield United's first home game of the season is this afternoon at 3pm on the new 3G all-weather pitch...

22/11/2024

Another big turnout for the Downend Christmas lights switch-on this evening...

16/11/2024

Downend man had been reported missing

HUMAN remains found in Lyde Green were those of a missing man from Downend, police say. David Wilson, aged 63, was reported missing in September, but had not been seen since mid-May. Police made two appeals for information about his whereabouts, but no-one came forward with any confirmed sightings.H...

06/11/2024

Council's cabinet is expected to approve the change when it meets next week

PLANS to collect black bins every three weeks instead of two are expected to be confirmed next week. South Gloucestershire Council’s cabinet is being recommended to formally approve the change, to save just over £1 million a year, when it meets next Monday. The new three-weekly collections would ...

06/11/2024

Police say they are treating the incident in Lyde Green as an 'unexplained' death

A POLICE investigation is underway after suspected human remains were found in Lyde Green. The remains were found yesterday morning in a field between Westerleigh Road and Apple Grove, off Jenner Boulevard. An area including the end of Apple Grove and a footpath that runs from Jenner Boulevard to a....

05/11/2024

Body of 93-year-old man was found in June

A MAN has admitted murdering his elderly father at the home they shared. Gary Moore, aged 65, was arrested shortly after the body of his father Robert was found at their home in Mill Lane, Hambrook (pictured above), on June 22. Robert Moore was 93 and known as Bob. At Bristol Crown Court on Friday [...

28/10/2024

https://downendvoice.co.uk/2024/10/28/ava-celebrates-life-changing-win/

SINGER Ava Mannings says she wants to use her talent to “speak to the world” after landing a record deal as the winner of TV contest The Voice UK. Ava, who grew up in Fishponds, Downend and Frenchay, has also won £50,000 and an all-expenses-paid holiday after being picked as the winner by th...