Frome Valley Voice

02/12/2025

Police are asking anyone who recognises them to get in touch

POLICE are trying to identify three masked burglars seen trying to break into a house in Yate. The three young men were seen trying to get into a home in Milton Road via a garage at around 1.45am on November 8. Another home nearby was targeted on the same night, but failed in both attempts. […]

10/11/2025

Synth-pop legends join Madness and Emeli Sande on festival bill

SYNTH-pop legends The Human League and Marc Almond have been added to the bill for Chipping Sodbury’s Good Times festival next year. Best known for their global smash hit Don’t You Want Me, The Human League will headline the first night of next year’s Good Times Live festival on May 20 at the ...

10/11/2025

A public meeting is being held this week to ensure your voices are heard

CAMPAIGNERS are calling on Winterbourne and Frampton Cotterell residents to act now to ensure they do not lose vital bus services. Concerns have been raised that when the M4 Badminton Road bridge is reopened next year, the Y1 and Y2 services to Bristol and Yate, which currently serve both villages,....

05/11/2025

Road has now reopened

ONE person was taken to hospital after a crash involving three vehicles in Coalpit Heath The A432 Badminton Road was closed at its junction with Church Road for more than three hours after the incident. A police spokesperson said the collision happened at about 8am and the road was closed afterwards...

27/10/2025

Camera club members captured the spooks and ghouls raising money for the Grand Appeal...open until Saturday

CHIPPING Sodbury resident Natasha May Marriott has turned her front garden into a big Halloween display to raise funds for the Grand Appeal. The Creepy Hollow scene took Natasha two weekends to build with the help of husband Joel and friend Bruce Hegley, and is one of the longest-established Hallowe...

26/10/2025

Organisers say the band is 'the biggest act we’ve ever had'

ONE of Britain’s most successful pop acts will headline next year’s Good Times Live festival in Chipping Sodbury. Organisers say Madness will headline the Saturday night of the festival in 2026, “delivering a show packed with decades of beloved hits and live energy that’s second to none”. ...

26/10/2025

The Billington Structures plant will close if the company's 'restructuring plan' goes ahead.

A TOTAL of 81 workers are at risk of losing their jobs at a Yate structural steel factory. The Billington Structures plant in Badminton Road would close if the plan goes ahead. The company announced the move as part of restructuring plans, which it says would see structural steel operations “conso...

26/10/2025

IT was a fitting send-off for one of the last Paras to fight in the Battle of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and the invasion of Germany.

IT was a fitting send-off for one of the last Paras to fight in the Battle of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and the invasion of Germany. Leonard Trewin was given military honours at his funeral at Westerleigh Crematorium on October 22. Escorted from his son Mike’s home in Yate to the crematori...

25/10/2025

WORKERS installing the steel beams for the new A432 Badminton Road bridge over the M4 expected to have all eight installed by this evening. The first two beams of the new £20 million bridge were in place by 7am today, with the second pair put into place around 11am. National Highways engineering ma...

24/10/2025

He was almost three times over the limit

A DRINK-driver who killed his friend when he crashed his car off the M32 has been jailed. Victor Rotundu, aged 32, was almost three times the legal alcohol limit when he lost control of his Citroen C4 car, drove off the northbound carriageway and hit a tree near the Hambrook junction on October 6 la...

24/10/2025

'It is clear that he poses a danger to children,' says detective

A YATE man has been jailed for grooming after a ‘sting’ operation by an online pa******le hunting group. Rodolfa Galvao, aged 49, had been communicating online with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl via Facebook. South Wales Police said Galvao (pictured above) booked a room at a bed and bre...

23/10/2025

A reminder for this weekend...

NATIONAL Highways is advising drivers who can to “avoid” travelling in the area affected by the third and final closure of the M4 between Bristol and Bath as part of a project to replace a bridge. The latest closure of the motorway, between Junction 19 for the M32 at Hambrook and junction 18 for...