Yate and Sodbury Voice

27/12/2024

Ashley Billing was over the drink-drive limit, disqualified and uninsured when he killed Rebecca Ashmead on Kennedy Way

A BANNED driver has admitted killing a Yate mother-of-four in the town while over the drink-drive limit. Ashley Billing, aged 39, has admitted three charges in relation to the death of Rebecca Ashmead on Kennedy Way in March 2023. They are causing death by driving without due care while over the pre...

06/12/2024

Christmas party season is getting underway - here's how they did it in the old days in Yate...

David Hardill of Yate Heritage Centre looks at the history of workplace dances, clubs and Christmas parties. THIS month Yate Heritage Centre presents Work and Play: The Factory Way – a new exhibition that celebrates the rich social lives of the Station Road factory workforce. The Beko Europe site,...

01/12/2024

Police are asking anyone with video footage that could help their investigation to come forward

A BABY and another young child were among six people taken to hospital after a car hit pedestrians at today’s Chipping Sodbury Christmas Sunday event. Police say the car was involved in “a low-speed collision with pedestrians while manoeuvring out of a parking space” in the High Street at noon...

01/12/2024

The Police have issued an update after a car hit pedestrians in Chipping Sodbury at Christmas Sunday event. A driver in his 80's hit seven pedestrians, including two children. The air ambulance is believed to have attended, but officers say none of those hit sustained life changing injuries. they are appealing for witnesses.

No one is understood to have either life-threatening or life-changing injuries after the collision between a car and pedestrians.

29/11/2024

Residents of Nibley, Iron Acton and Engine Common have a new councillor

THE Liberal Democrats have held the seat on South Gloucestershire Council vacated by Thornbury & Yate MP Claire Young. At a by-election held yesterday David Goodwin won the Frampton Cotterell ward with a majority of 201 over Conservative Tim Niblett, with the Greens and Labour third and fourth respe...

29/11/2024

Retailer says the plan would create up to 40 jobs

YATE’S former cinema could be turned into an Aldi supermarket. The German discount food retailer has announced plans to take over the former Cineworld at Riverside Retail Park, which closed in October, for a new food store. It would create up to 40 ‘full-time equivalent’ jobs. Plans were annou...

28/11/2024

Closure wold be 'a huge blow for both Yate and Sodbury'

YATE’S MP is demanding answers from the Post Office after it announced plans that put the town’s main branch at risk of closure. The Yate Sodbury branch at South Parade in Yate Shopping Centre is one of 115 across the country owned directly by the Post Office. The state-owned retail company says...

27/11/2024

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26/11/2024

Donations have already passed £2,000

AN appeal has been launched to help Yate residents whose homes were flooded following torrential rain at the weekend. Around 100 homes in and around Shire Way were deluged shortly before 9.45pm on Sunday. It happened during a weekend of severe wind and rain brought by Storm Bert, which also caused f...

06/11/2024

Council's cabinet is expected to approve the changes 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 ...

05/11/2024

Van was left at the roadside in various parts of Yate

AN Indian takeaway has been prosecuted over a van carrying a large advert that was parked on roads around Yate. South Gloucestershire Council prosecuted the owner of Spice 37, in Wellington Road, for fly-posting after the hoarding on a flatbed van was spotted in Lodge Road and Rodford Way. Ifran Raj...

03/11/2024

'We were so surprised and stunned,' says woman whose daughter lost the pendant 20 years ago, and now lives in Canada

A METAL detectorist has discovered the identity of a woman whose picture was in a locket he dug up – after a man he met at a dig realised she is a member of his family. Mark Willcox posted pictures of the mystery woman after unearthing the silver locket in a field near The Downs, […]

03/11/2024

New exhibition will remember 107 years of factory life in Station Road

David Hardill of Yate Heritage Centre writes on the history of the Station Road factory site that will close in December. AS an article writer for the Voice for several years, I have covered the highs and lows of our historic industries. The manufacturing base which was such a key part of life in Ya...

30/10/2024

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29/10/2024

It will bring to an end more than 100 years of manufacturing at the home of Parnall's, Jackson's and Creda

YATE’S historic Hotpoint UK factory will close at the end of this year, bringing to an end more than a century of manufacturing at the Station Road site. Owner Beko Europe has confirmed that the plant will shut down on December 31, with the loss of 142 jobs. The factory in Station Road stands on [...

18/10/2024

Official diversion is south of the motorway, as National Highways asks drivers not to try other routes

DRIVERS are being warned to avoid roads through Hambrook, Downend, Emersons Green, Warmley and Wick, where motorway traffic is being diverted while the M4 is closed this weekend. National Highways is closing the motorway in both directions between the Bristol and Bath junctions, at Hambrook and Torm...

11/10/2024

11/10/2024

Week of action also saw stolen motorbikes recovered and suspected drink-driver arrested in Yate

POLICE have arrested a man suspected of carrying out eight burglaries in Winterbourne, Hambrook and Yate, after finding him hiding under a bed. The Avon & Somerset force released video footage (above – subtitles added by police) from an officer’s body-worn camera, capturing the moment the man wa...