Noise cameras

NOISE CAMERA TRIALS TO DETECT ROWDY DRIVERS COMING TO BRISTOL

A new-age road camera designed to identify and track drivers who break the law by revving engines and using modified exhausts will be installed in Bristol, before travelling to South Gloucestershire as part of a trial to clampdown on antisocial driving. The Transport Secretary has confirmed these 4 locations will host the new ‘noise camera’ following a government-backed competition to tackle noise pollution on some of the loudest streets in Britain.

The new technology uses a video camera in conjunction with a number of microphones to accurately pinpoint excessively noisy vehicles as they pass by. This means that if drivers break the law by revving their engines unnecessarily or using illegal exhausts, they will be automatically detected. The camera takes a picture of the vehicle and records the noise level to create a digital package of evidence which can be used by local police to fine drivers. Road noise is known to contribute to health problems, such as heart attacks, strokes and dementia, and the annual social cost of urban road noise, including lost productivity from sleep disturbance and health costs is estimated to be up to £10 billion.

A camera on the A4174 will be installed between the Kingsfield and Wraxall Road roundabouts, near Barrs Court and Warmley in the next 2 months. Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said: Rowdy road drivers beware – these new cameras will help the police clampdown on those who break the legal noise limits or use illegal modified exhausts to make excessive noise in our communities.

We’ll be working closely with the local authorities and police to share any findings, and I hope that this technology paves the way for quieter, peaceful streets across the country. The trials will continue for 2 months across the country. The department continues to work closely with all local authorities and MPs to tackle rowdy, illegal noise disruption from traffic.

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TRAINING WORKSHOP IN LOSS, GRIEF AND BEREAVEMET

A training workshop for healthcare and end-of-life professionals to help them understand the impact of grief is taking place on Thursday November 24 at Bristol Memorial Woodlands in Alveston.

The half-day workshop will look at loss, grief and bereavement and aims to build the skills of professionals to support themselves and others through the feelings people experience when someone close dies.

Organised by the funeral venue in partnership with training provider Gentle Dusk, the workshop will also look at the current theoretical approaches to loss and gain insight into the diversity of experiences in relation to bereavement.

The training is being delivered by Mireille Hayden, founding partner of Gentle Dusk which provides training and events around death, dying and bereavement. She said: “With Covid and the death of the Queen we have all been through times recently where the feelings of loss of many kinds have been felt by the nation. Many have lost loved ones. Covid and confinement meant that many people went through grief at a time where there was isolation and lack of social support.” The event will take place on 24th November from 2pm to 5.30pm in the reception rooms at Bristol Memorial Woodlands, a funeral setting with 100 acres of burial woodland, providing families with a place to visit and remember loved ones for years to come.

Previous workshops have been welcomed by healthcare professionals who said it gave them the opportunity to talk about death in a “no holds barred fashion” in a beautiful relaxing setting. Places are free for local professionals working in healthcare but limited to 25 for this workshop. To book email your name, title and organisation to event co-ordinator Sophie Thomas on sophie@gentledusk.org.uk. For more information visit www.memorialwoodlands.com

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WARM PLACES PLANNED IN BRISTOL

There will be warm communal places set up in Bristol for people who cannot afford to heat their homes this coming winter.

As energy bills are set to rise again in October, fears are mounting about the many people who will struggle to pay their heating bills as the weather gets colder. Bristol City Council is planning to set up “warm places” across the city to help people who can’t pay. Marvin Rees, the mayor of Bristol, made a plea for help providing these warm places, and money to set them up. The spaces could also provide support for people with food, education and financial advice.

Average energy bills increased in April by £693 after Ofgem, the regulator, lifted its price cap in response to huge jumps in wholesale gas prices, partly linked to the war in Ukraine.

Ofgem is expected to increase the price cap again this October, meaning bills could go up even further, adding more pressure to people’s pockets just as many turn their heating back on. Mr Rees said: in a online statement: “It almost sounds like wartime, but we’ll be working with community organisations and partners around the city to set up warm places that people can go to if they need to, come the autumn when people need to turn their heating on again. "We’ll be looking at a number of characteristics for these places and we’re exploring what we can do at the moment.

“It’ll be a warm place, there’ll be homework support, services there, financial advice. Hopefully we’ll be able to align it with some of the programmes we have to tackle hunger as well.

"But it will be a real community hub where we can bring people together, and break down isolation as we go into those colder months.”

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