Emersons Green Voice July 2021

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Blackhorse Primary School has created a farm in its grounds where children are growing crops.

Head teacher Simon Botten said the project was having a positive impact on pupils' mental health and wellbeing - as well as providing produce for school meals and enhancing science, history and geography lessons.

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Festival to bring Greens together An event entitled The Three Greens Festival, bringing together Emersons and Lyde and with an environmental theme, is being planned.

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Details unveiled for new primary

Ring road roundabout revolution

THREE roundabouts in the Emersons Green area are part of a £30 million upgrade programme that would involve three years of roadworks.

South Gloucestershire Council wants to tackle congestion on the A4174 Avon Ring Road and encourage more motorists to use it instead of smaller residential roads.

It plans to add extra lanes to the Lyde Green roundabout and the Rosary roundabout, by

Emersons Green shopping centre, and build new lanes through the middle of the Siston Hill roundabout near Mangotsfield, along with two others.

But critics are questioning whether the huge scheme will succeed in reducing congestion – or have the opposite effect.

The new school being built at Honeysuckle Road in Lyde Green is set to be run in tandem with the primary school in Willowherb Road.

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Campaigning mum gains MBE Paula McGowan from Emersons Green has been awarded the MBE for her NHS campaigning following the death of her son.

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Covid-19 cases rise

DOWNEND School had to suspend face-toface lessons for pupils after more than 30 coronavirus cases were reported.

The move came against a background of rising Covid-19 cases in the area, as the more infectious Delta variant of the disease started to spread.

The secondary school moved back to remote learning during the week from June 14-19 for Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12, with all pupils except children of key workers asked to study online from home.

Year 11 GCSE and Year 13 A-level candidates had already finished work and assessments for the year, although transition sessions for Year 11s planning to return for sixth form in September also had to be suspended.

The school had planned to hold Year 10 pupils’ exams in school, until cases were reported which meant they also had to be run remotely.

More than 400 pupils in Years 8, 9, 10 and 12 were told to self-isolate, as close contacts of the people who had tested positive, as well as an unspecified number of staff.

A spokesperson for South Gloucestershire Council said a total of 31 cases among children and staff, some confirmed following PCR tests and others suspected after lateral flow tests, had been reported as of June 14.

A Downend School spokesperson said the “difficult decision” to move to remote learning was “due to the number of staff having to isolate”, adding: “The safety of our students, staff and community is of paramount importance, and we will continue to monitor the situation carefully alongside our colleagues from Public Health.”

By Monday June 21 faceto-face learning had resumed, following a deep clean of the site.

The school reintroduced rules

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requiring all staff and students to wear face coverings in corridors and indoor communal areas, although not in class.

In a letter to parents the school said: “Switching to remote learning was the very last thing we wanted to do but the number of cases and speed of transmission meant that this was the best thing for the safety of our community.

“It has been good to hear that those staff and students who have been unwell with covid have, for the large part, only suffered fairly minor symptoms and are on the mend. We wish them a speedy and full return to health.”

The closure came as the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the area rose sharply.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that, in the week to June 16, the total number of confirmed cases in South Gloucestershire was 232, up from 30 a fortnight previously.

Confirmed cases in Emersons Green were up from 2 to 23 over the week to June 16, while in Mangotsfield, confirmed cases rose from 2 to 10 over the same period.

In Pucklechurch & Westerleigh, cases rose from 5 to 13 in the week to June 16.

In Downend, numbers of confirmed cases rose from 4 in the week to June 9 to 28 a week later.

In the year to June 11, 144 deaths with Covid-19 had been registered among South Gloucestershire residents.

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n NEWS A FESTIVAL is being planned to bring together the people of Emersons Green and Lyde Green.

The Three Greens Festival, which would take place on September 25, is the idea of volunteer group the Friends of Emersons Green Park.

The festival’s name comes from the names of the two areas and a green environmental theme, with the motto: “Emersons Green and Lyde Green celebrate our relationship with the Earth.”

The friends group is planning to start the event with a fancy dress parade, beginning with two “streams”, one from Emersons Green and one from Lyde Green, which will meet in the park.

The parade will have a theme of sustainable transport and organisers are looking for walkers, runners, cyclists, scooters and electric forms of transport to take part.

Once in the park there will be events and stalls on the theme of our relationship with the earth.

The festival will also include discovery walks led by local

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Festival planned for park Members of the Friends of Emersons Green Park, who are organising the festival, at a recent orchard workshop naturalist Ed Drewitt, including an early morning walk round Lyde Green Common.

There will also be displays highlighting the fruit and veg harvest, wildflowers, areas of local natural interest, music, local history and much more.

More details will revealed in the run-up to the event, with workshops being organised to help people prepare to take part.

Lead organiser Chris Sunderland said: “It has been a

long haul through the pandemic, but plans are now being laid to bring the Emersons and Lyde communities together in a celebration.

“Many of us are longing to express being a community again, and what better way to do that than to recognise all that we are doing to improve our interaction with the natural world?

“Many people reported getting out and about on local

paths during the lockdowns, and they discovered what a rich natural environment we live in.

“The park is itself a delightful mix of formal and informal areas.

The western side has its towering oaks and ash, the stream and ponds, and so many wildflowers.

“The Friends group recently surveyed the wildflowers and found 65 different varieties on just the park and common.”

Friends of Emersons Green Park started ten years ago when a small group of volunteers persuaded the council to let them plant a community orchard, which now includes apple, pear, plum and peach trees along with fruit bushes of “every different sort of berry you can think of”.

Chris said: “You will find red grapes growing around green alder, kiwi and thornless blackberry, all for the community to pick and enjoy as they ripen.”

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£30m scheme for A4174 = 3 years A THREE-year project to transform five roundabouts on the Avon Ring Road has been unveiled.

The £30 million South Gloucestershire Council scheme would see extra lanes added at the Lyde Green roundabout, near the Bristol and Bath Science Park, and the Rosary roundabout, by Emersons Green shopping centre.

Three other roundabouts – at Siston Hill near Mangotsfield, Deanery Road near Warmley and Kingsfield, at Longwell Green – would have new lanes built across the middle for through traffic, transforming them into what the council calls “throughabouts”.

The council has launched a public consultation on the plans, which it says are aimed at tackling congestion on the A4174 and stopping drivers using nearby residential roads as rat-runs.

But the scheme has already

attracted criticism from the newly-elected Metro Mayor, Dan Norris, who said “changes might be necessary”.

The council says that although the scheme, on a fivemile stretch of the road, involves widening, the intention is to encourage “necessary strategic car trips” on the A4174 because it was the most suitable for commutes in the area.

The plans are part of a “wider strategy” that also involves closing potential ‘rat runs’ such as Henfield Road and Coxgrove Hill near Lyde Green to through traffic.

The council claims the scheme will improve air quality by easing congestion.

More traffic lights and entry lanes will be installed, some trees removed and replaced, and land at the edges of the dual carriageway used to provide extra space for vehicles.

No dedicated bus lanes are envisaged but sensors will detect

when buses are approaching to give priority, while improvements for pedestrians and cyclists are also included.

A council spokesperson told the Voice that the plans had been designed to work “with or without” the proposed new junction 18a for the M4, which could be built near Emersons Green or Pucklechurch.

The spokesperson said: “The junctions have been designed to accommodate the expected traffic from a new junction at J18a and other predicted growth across the region, and to be complementary to such a scheme.”

The council said the scheme would “provide additional capacity and thus resilience along the ring road”, which would make it less susceptible to being blocked by accidents.

Work on the five roundabouts would be carried out “in a phased manner to ensure that construction can be completed as quickly as possible and disruption kept to a minimum,” said the spokesperson.

Responding to comments about an apparent lack of bus lanes in the plans, the council said: “The provision of bus lanes is not required, as the ring road would enable the buses to travel without delay, using the ‘ahead’ traffic lanes provided at the junction.”

The council said it had not waited until the first of its ‘throughabout’ junctions, currently under construction at Wraxall Road near Warmley,

had been completed before drawing up plans for more of the junctions, as it had a “high degree of confidence that the Wraxall Road scheme will perform as expected”.

Feedback from the public consultation will be used in an application for Government funding for the scheme. If the scheme is approved, work is expected to start in phases from next year and last until 2025.

Council cabinet member for strategic infrastructure Steve Reade said: “We want to reduce congestion and improve air quality in South Gloucestershire.

“This scheme is designed to encourage necessary strategic car trips to remain on the A4174, the most suitable road designed to accommodate longer distance car journeys, and to deter the traffic from re-routing through our local communities.”

The council says that without the works, congestion along the A4174 and nearby roads “will worsen due to planned local growth in the area”.

Metro Mayor Mr Norris, who is in charge of the West of England Combined Authority and has strategic regional responsibility for transport, said: “I will be looking at roadworks under way to see whether changes might be necessary.

“We have to look at the strong possibility that just widening roads simply causes increased journeys by car and does not alleviate congestion.”

The scheme was also criticised by South

The Rosary roundabout at Emersons Green will be converted to a fully traffic light-controlled roundabout and widened at each approach on the A4174 to provide four entry lanes.

Existing pedestrian crossing points will be modified and new links to cycle and pedestrian networks installed at the existing metrobus stop in Emerson Way.

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of road works Gloucestershire Green Party, who said: “The proposals for five monstrous Mega-roundabouts will do nothing to tackle the climate emergency and will instead cause environmental damage and an increase in car dependency.

“Local residents have also shared with us their concerns about many years of disruption to the roads and the potential worsening of air quality, especially for people with respiratory conditions like asthma.”

Emersons Green town councillor Sadik al-Hassan also questioned whether the works were needed.

He said: “I, like many people, was surprised to hear that the roundabout needed improvement at all, but also wonder if the disruption is really worth any benefits.

“I am amazed that we have money for the roundabout upgrade but no doctors surgery in Lyde Green to reduce pressure in Emersons Green surgery.

“We need more healthcare, more schools and more green spaces, not necessarily bigger roads.”

The consultation on the changes is open until August 16.

More details can be found online at consultations. southglos.gov.uk/ A4174Improvements.

Anyone not online can ask for more information by calling the council on 01454 868 000.

A face-to face consultation meeting will be held on July 10 from 1pm to 5.30pm at Emersons Green Village Hall.

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The Siston Hill roundabout in Mangotsfield is one of three to be converted to what the council calls a “throughabout”, with three lanes in both directions going through the middle for ring road through traffic.

Another two lanes will be for traffic turning off the A4174 both east and west.

Capacity of side roads will also be increased.

The existing pedestrian crossing and access steps to the north of the junction will be removed for safety reasons, and nearby lay-bys on both sides of the ring road will be lost as they become part of the widened carriageway.

The revised layout will link in with the changes on Carson Road to improve access to the Mangotsfield Sort It recycling centre.

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Keep it local Lyde Green roundabout will have the Westerleigh Road approach from the Bristol and Bath Science Park widened to three lanes.

The southbound ring road carriageway will be extended into the central reservation.

The road space around the junction will be increased to provide at least three lanes at all points, with a four-lane section next to the Westerleigh Lane bus link, which will have a sensor to see buses as they approach and assist them joining the roundabout.

The pedestrian and cycle crossing will be improved.

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School goes back to area's farming roots CHILDREN at Blackhorse Primary School have been learning how to grow their own food after the school opened its very own farm.

The project has echoes of the area's history as a working farm in the years before the school and nearby homes were built.

A dedicated horticulture teacher, Simon Evans, is helping pupils learn how to sow and tend to their crops both on the farm and in the newly-created allotment beds, which each class has been allocated across the school site.

Head teacher Simon Botten said: "Whilst we’d always planned to develop the children’s understanding of horticulture, health and nutrition this year, we decided to use the theme of ‘Blackhorse Farm’ as a whole-school focus for all of our science work in Term 5, as a way to help the children reconnect with their school community after such a disruptive year."

Mr Botten said the children had enthusiastically thrown themselves into the ‘good life’, planning science experiments around growing vegetables and creating detailed Victorian botanical drawings.

They are learning about how the food they Children at work on the Blackhorse Primary School farm harvest can be used to create healthy meals and how to help the environment by eating planted in the depths of locally-produced seasonal food, reducing the pandemic winter, ‘food miles’ created by importing produce. by the children of The school kitchen is planning meals essential workers, are which incorporate the produce grown by the now bearing fruit, and children. the children have really Deputy head teacher Neil Fry said: "The connected with the idea farm allows us to teach science, history, of re-growth and re-birth geography, and a whole host of other after what has been, subjects, practically and holistically, and it for all of us, a difficult is amazing how much the children know and winter. can do as a result.

"Some of the "Stop any Blackhorse child and they will children who have tell you exactly how to grow food and how to been badly affected by create healthy meals." the pandemic, or who Mr Botten said the school had seen struggled to return benefits to children’s mental health and welltherapeutic, allowing them to successfully to school, have found being as a result of the farm project. re-engage with school life." watering the crops each morning hugely He said: "Many of the crops which were

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Garden will host mini music festival A MANGOTSFIELD garden is set to host a music festival this month, with organisers encouraging musicians in the community to get involved.

The Ham Farm Festival will take place in the half-acre private garden at Ham Farm Cottage, off Emersons Green Lane, from July 25 to 28.

It is the creation of professional musicians Emily and Francisco Correa, who live at the cottage near Vinney Green.

Emily, a flautist and mezzo soprano singer who teaches the flute at Downend School, said: "The house has an incredible garden and we thought it would

be nice to have a festival there.

"It will be not just professionals but local performers, including choirs and guitar groups."

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The musical styles range from jazz-folk and sea shanties to classical guitar and a string quartet.

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Carmen, featuring both actors and musicians, including Emily and her husband, who is a guitarist.

Each night of the festival there will be performances by local groups from 6-7pm, before professional groups take to the stage at 7.30pm.

During the day the professional musicians will host open rehearsals and educational workshops for community musicians of any age and ability to attend, on subjects including songwriting, improvisation and "active listening".

Emily said: "This is a festival for everyone - concert-goers,

amateur and professional musicians and young musicians.

It will be a great chance to mix with other music lovers in covidsafe space, while enjoying the long summer evenings."

The non-profit festival is being supported by crowdfunding, a donation from Sovereign Housing Association and member-awarded funding from Emersons Green ward South Gloucestershire councillor Judy Adams.

More details on performances, tickets and other arrangements can be found online at hamfarmfestival.com.

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Area’s MPs face shake-up of seats A SHAKE-UP of MPs’ seats could see the Kingswood constituency disappear.

Emersons Green and Lyde Green would move into neighbouring Filton and Bradley Stoke if new plans to redraw Parliamentary boundaries go ahead.

The Kingswood constituency, which was created in 1974, currently also includes Mangotsfield, Siston, parts of Downend and communities in the southern part of South Gloucestershire.

But it would be abolished under the proposals from the Boundary Commission for England, which would take effect from 2023 if approved.

Siston would join Shortwood and Pucklechurch in the Thornbury & Yate constituency, while Mangotsfield and neighbouring Staple Hill would become part of a new seat, Bristol North East.

Conservative MP Chris Skidmore's Kingswood seat would be abolished under the plans The boundary between Kingswood and Thornbury & Yate (in blue) runs through the middle of Lyde Green. The new boundary between Filton & Bradley Stoke and Thornbury & Yate is in red.

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The southern part of the current Kingswood seat, including Hanham and Bitton, would become part of a redrawn and renamed Keynsham & North East Somerset constituency.

Kingswood’s MP, Conservative backbencher Chris Skidmore, has declined to comment on the proposals.

He has been MP for the area since 2010, when he defeated Labour’s Roger Berry, who in turn had held the seat since 1992.

While both the new Bristol North East and Keynsham & North East Somerset seats would cross council boundaries, the review would put to an end the current situation in South Gloucestershire, where some council wards are divided between two Parliamentary constituencies, following a revamp of council ward boundaries before the last local elections.

At present the Emersons Green ward is split between Kingswood and Thornbury & Yate, which covers the northern and eastern parts of Lyde Green, including homes off Honeysuckle Road, Elderflower Drive and Jenner Boulevard.

Both the Staple Hill & Mangotsfield ward and the Frenchay & Downend ward are split between Filton & Bradley

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The new proposals would see all of the Frenchay & Downend and Emersons Green wards become part of Filton & Bradley Stoke constituency, whose current MP is Conservative Jack Lopresti.

If the new Bristol North East constituency were approved it would be a target seat for Labour: the party’s councillors currently hold all of the seats in its South Gloucestershire wards, while its Bristol wards are represented by four Labour, three Green and one Conservative councillor following May’s city council elections.

Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy, whose seat would be retained but with redrawn boundaries, said it would be a “shame” to lose the Fishponds area if the proposals went ahead but said that it was possible another general election could take place before they do.

The changes are being proposed as part of a review aimed at ensuring all Parliamentary constituencies are of a comparable size, taking account of population shifts to add new seats to regions where the size of the electorate has increased and take them away from regions where it has declined.

The South West would gain a total of three new constituencies if the plans go ahead.

They are open for comment until August 2 on the Boundary Commission for England reviews website, bcereviews.org.uk.

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One primary on two sites for Lyde Green

NEW school buildings in Lyde Green are set to be run in tandem with the existing primary school.

Castle School Education Trust, which runs Lyde Green Primary School in Willowherb Road, wants to run the new school, which will be built alongside a new secondary school on Honeysuckle Road, as a second site.

It would mean that a total of 840 children would be part of one school, with 420 pupils on each site.

The trust has been consulting parents over the plan, which it says will combine the resources of a large school with the “warm and friendly environment” of smaller sites.

Under the plans, the current head teacher Mark Jackson and deputy head Wendy Westwood would be in overall charge of the school, with a second deputy head appointed as the school grows onto the second site.

It would be registered as a single school with regulator Ofsted and would have a single local governance committee, accountable to CSET trustees.

The expanded school would admit 120 pupils each year, with 60 in each year group on each site following the same curriculum, assessments and teaching techniques.

The trust said: “The provision would be the same on both sites, so that the experience is the same for children in all classes across the school.

“Every child would continue to be educated in a class of 30 children with a dedicated teacher, and children would be

based on the same site for the whole of their primary education.

However, there would be regular opportunities for children to come together with others in their year group across sites, for example through a rich programme of extracurricular activities, events and visits.”

Lyde Green Primary School opened in 2015, initially in temporary accommodation on the site of Downend School, and moved into its Willowherb Road buildings the following year.

The school was originally built to accommodate 420 pupils, plus a further 12 in its specialist Access Centre, but as the population of Lyde Green has grown, it has expanded to admit three consecutive extra ‘bulge’ classes, taking its annual intake to 90. Temporary accommodation will be provided at Willowherb Road from September, as the oldest children move into Year 6.

Numbers at the Willowherb Road site will continue to grow, as the smaller year groups who started in 2015 and 2016 leave and the ‘bulge’ years move through the school, and

are predicted to peak at 510 between the 2023/4 and 2025/6 academic years.

The Honeysuckle Road site is expected to open in September 2022 with an intake of 60 pupils, taking the overall capacity of the two sites gradually up from 540 that year to 840 by 2028.

While every child who has already started at the Willowherb Road site would continue there under the plans, the trust says it is aware that some of the

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The secondary school at Honeysuckle Road is to be run by SGS Academy Trust.

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Children help charities to say thank you WHEN charity donors use a fundraising website to help good causes, they get a special thank-you message – courtesy of children from Emersons Green.

Pupils at Mangotsfield C of E Primary School worked together to create artworks which are used on acknowledgements by Wishy, a site which matches donors to specific individual gifts and services.

Founder Liam Summers lives in Emersons Green and his daughters Megan, aged 11, and nine-year-old Molly are pupils in Year 6 and 4 respectively at the school.

He said: “When we started Wishy they wanted to get involved and do something really nice for people who donated. We sat down and chatted to them and came up with the idea.”

Liam spoke to head teacher Faye Kitchen, who said the school would be happy to be involved in the project. Children worked together to create six

Children from Mangotsfield C of E Primary School with the designs they worked together to produce collages which were turned into appreciation notifications to acknowledge donations.

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Donors then pick an item and donate the money to buy it, so they know exactly what their money is going towards – and are sent one of the thank-you messages produced by the children.

Assistant head teacher Samantha Culver said: “We were delighted to be able to take on this project and the children and teachers quickly set about finding out more about the rationale and aims of Wishy to help shape their artwork designs.

“It seems fitting, especially after the past 18 months, that our children are able to contribute to such a worthwhile local initiative set up to provide much needed support to many worthy charities.

“We are incredibly proud to support the work of Wishy and, of course, of the children’s fantastic artwork.”

You can find out more about the charity appeals using Wishy online at wishy.org.uk.

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n NEWS Charity match DETAILS of an annual fundraising match in memory of a Bristol Rovers fan have been announced.

The Martin Belsten Memorial match, between a team of Rovers legends and a side made up from supporters, is held at Mangotsfield United's Cossham Street ground and has raised thousands of pounds for charities since it was first held in 2017.

It is organised by Ash Belsten, from Kingswood, in memory of his grandad Martin, who took him to his first Rovers match and died in 2016.

This year Bristol Rovers Community Trust is the chosen charity for the match on September 26. For details visit bristolroverscommunity. org.uk/belstenmemorialmatch2021

Police patrols increase POLICE say they have been dealing with a series of issues of anti-social behaviour involving youths in the Lyde Green, Emersons Green and Mangotsfield areas.

Among the most recent incidents was an arson attack on a derelict building in Howsmoor Lane, Emersons Green on June 2.

There have also been reports of vandal attacks on bus shelters in the area and last month the Voice reported how armed police had arrested four teenage boys in Mangotsfield after a group carrying what one witness described as a machete was seen outside the shops in St James Place on April 28.

Witnesses to the fire in Howsmoor Lane, which was reported shortly before 9.30am,

should call the police on 101, quoting crime reference number 5221 121 529.

PC James Rochford of the neighbourhood policing team told a meeting of the Downend, Emersons Green and Frenchay community engagement forum on June 15 that officers were working with Mangotsfield School to identify youths involved in low-level offending who were potentially vulnerable to being drawn in to more serious crime.

Police were working with the South Gloucestershire violence reduction unit and charity the St Giles Trust.

High-visibility patrols have been increased in the area, including more uniformed officers and mounted police.

HEDGEHOG HOUSES FOR TOWN COUNCIL RESIDENTS Sadly, the UK’s favourite spiky little mammal is in serious decline. While it is difficult to accurately monitor hedgehog numbers, The Woodland Trust believes that numbers could have decreased by over half in rural areas and a third in urban areas since 2000.

In order to try to encourage and protect hedgehogs in our local area, Emersons Green Town Council has a limited supply of hedgehog houses to distribute to residents of the Emersons Green ward area to host in their gardens. If you would like to apply for one of the hedgehog houses, please visit our website or Facebook page for the application form or scan the QR code to the right.

Subject to eligibility criteria, hedgehog houses will be allocated by random draw. The closing date for applications is Friday 10 September 2021.

It is not too late for children within the Emersons Green ward area aged 4-11 to enter our Christmas Light design competition. Full details are available on our website or Facebook page.

The closing date for entries is 25 July. There are collection points for entries at Emersons Green Village Hall and Lyde Green Community Centre.

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Planning Committee 10.30am 19 July Events Committee 6.00pm 22 July Full Council 7.00pm 22 July Finance Committee 7.00pm 29 July

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Rachael joined the Town Council in 2015, representing the Badminton Ward, and sits on the Council’s Planning Committee. As well as being a Town Councillor, Rachael is also a District Councillor for South Gloucestershire Council.

Rachael is married with a young daughter and has lived in the area since 2011. Since moving here, Rachael has made a strong contribution to the community and runs a small local business within the area. When time allows, Rachael is a keen cyclist and likes to read.

Rachael enjoys both her roles as Town and District Councillor, supporting and helping our residents in any way she can. Her aspiration for the future is for our local community to continue to thrive and to contribute towards this.

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School's farewell to Year 11s

Photo of Michelle Durnin by Izzabel Yandell, Year 10

Michelle hangs up her mop CLEANER Michelle Durnin is handing back her mop after 31 years of cleaning schools in Mangotsfield.

Michelle started working at the Chase School site opposite Cleve Rugby Club in 1983.

When the site was demolished in 1996 to make way for houses in Emersons Green, Michelle moved to the main Mangotsfield School site on Rodway Common.

In 2003 Michelle moved to Spain, where she lived for eight years before returning to Downend in 2011.

She came back to Mangotsfield School as a member of the cleaning team, making sure the school is presentable and is a good learning environment for all the students until her retirement in June this year.

Head teacher Hetty Blackmore said: “We will miss Michelle’s sparkle and sense of humour.

"We wish her well in her retirement”.

Daisy Cox (Year 10, Mangotsfield School)

MANGOTSFIELD School has organised a programme of celebrations to make sure pupils leaving the school have a proper send-off.

After two academic years disrupted by coronavirus lockdowns, the final week of term for Year 11s focused on one of the school's values - 'Love Learning' - with an emphasis on fun in lessons, with activities linked to each subject.

Houses competed against each other in a sports tournament and the school held a quiz afternoon to find Year 11's general knowledge genius.

The final day involved a leavers’ assembly, with laughter and tears followed by ice-cream, shirt signing and final farewells.

But although GCSE assessments are over, the school will welcome students back to school at the end of July in their finery for photo opportunities before a Year 11 Prom at a local hotel.

Head of Year 11 Georgina Vincent said: "After what has been an incredibly tough year for our Year 11 students, with two lockdowns during the course of their GCSEs, we felt very strongly that we wanted to offer them the privileges and celebrations that usually come with being a Year 11 student.

"They have had enough taken from them during this pandemic and therefore we wanted to ensure they had the opportunity to celebrate.

"We are so incredibly proud of the way in which our Year 11 students have coped with the events of the past year and the mature approach they have taken to their studies.

"They are a special group of young people, who will be greatly missed by their teachers and younger peers. We wish them every success in their new ventures."

Focus on mental health BRISTOL musician and youth mental health campaigner Zaid Elgahmi visited Mangotsfield School to discuss mental health issues with Year 7 pupils.

The host of music industry show The Cosound Podcast talked to students about his battles with racism as a British Muslim and the tragic loss of a close friend who took their own life earlier this year.

He said: "I visited over 25,000 students between 2017-18, talking about online safety, racism and suicide awareness.

"But the last 18 months have been absolute hell for some, and it's pushed certain people to the edge.

"It's been a massive eye-opener for me. I have a passion for helping, and if I can convince just one student, one adult, to seek help and not suffer in silence, then this whole next journey will be worth every second."

Zaid performed for the pupils and shared advice and stories.

One Year 7 said: “I’ve learnt that it is good to be truthful about how you feel.

"Nobody is as judgemental of you as much as you are about yourself.”

Another said: “It doesn't matter how you look, not looking on your phone first thing in the morning will help to reduce anxiety, and how to be confident in yourself.”

Zaid plans on visiting thousands of more students across the UK from September, supporting local and national charities.

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Honour for mum’s fight to change NHS A MOTHER who worked to improve how the NHS treats people with learning disabilities and a police worker have been recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

Paula McGowan, whose teenage son Oliver, from Emersons Green, died in Southmead Hospital after an adverse reaction to an antipsychotic drug, has been made an OBE for services to people with autism and learning disabilities.

Oliver, who was 18 and had a mild learning disability and high-functioning autism, was taken to hospital after suffering a partial seizure in October 2016.

He was given the drug despite both Oliver and his parents telling staff he had previously had an adverse reaction to such medication.

It caused his brain to swell, causing irreparable damage, and his life support was turned off after doctors told the family there was no hope of recovery.

After Oliver’s death Paula and husband Thomas fought for an independent review and campaigned to change the way NHS staff communicate with people with learning disabilities.

Paula ran a successful petition to secure a Parliamentary debate on the issue and worked closely with medical professionals to create and develop a programme of mandatory training in learning disability and autism for NHS workers, which is named in Oliver’s honour.

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meetings a week online with representatives from the NHS and other organisations, in addition to her full-time job as a learning support assistant in Australia, where she is currently living.

Paula said she felt “humbled” to be recognised but added: “The award belongs to Oliver, because without him suffering and dying I wouldn’t have been given it.

“The bigger picture is that it belongs to the learning disability community and autism community.”

Paula and Thomas have recently learned that the General Medical Council is to look into concerns they raised over the conduct of Dr Monica Mohan, who took responsibility for prescribing the drug Olanzapine to Oliver.

A Downend man who works as a diversity champion for Avon and Somerset police and is General Secretary of the Black Police Association (BPA) has been made an MBE for

services to policing and diverse communities.

Announcing Kermal Singh’s honour, Avon and Somerset police said: “Through his work with the BPA, Kermal has been instrumental in moving things forward in recruitment and race relations at Avon and Somerset Police.

“He’s increased

representation from minority groups into policing, introduced knife crime workshops at schools and colleges, which have been adopted by other educational establishments in other counties, and has engaged the workforce in cultural and ethical working.”

Kermal said: “I’m very proud to be recognised in this year’s Honours list.

“My work with young people from diverse ethnic backgrounds helps to reassure and encourage them to consider the police service as a good career choice.

“Through ongoing mentoring, coaching and developing, some of those volunteers now work for our organisation and it’s wonderful to see their careers grow.

“It’s important to give your time to others and to install trust and confidence in our communities. It’s all about changing hearts and minds for tomorrow.”

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‘Ambitious’ call for hourly village buses A CALL has been made for hourly bus services to every South Gloucestershire village with more than 300 residents.

But a South Gloucestershire Council debate about improving services descended into a political row after the ruling Conservative group accused opposition Liberal Democrats of wanting to “sneak through” the introduction of car parking charges – a claim the Lib Dems denied.

Lib Dem councillor Jayne Stansfield asked members to endorse a report by countryside charity the CPRE, highlighting the inadequacy of rural bus services and suggesting how improvements could be funded.

She told the meeting: “Ideally we would like to see a bus every hour to every village above 300 people, as proposed by the CPRE. This is ambitious but it can be done.”

Cllr Stansfield said the goal could be achieved if money was diverted from projects such as planned road-building to buses.

Timetabled services from Pucklechurch currently include the Y5 every two hours to Bristol and every two hours to Chipping Sodbury, and the 620 Bath to Old Sodbury, which visits five times a day in each direction.

The motion called on the council to work with the West of England Combined Authority mayor and Department for Transport to deliver an effective bus network.

But the Tories said the CPRE’s report also suggested introducing or increasing car parking charges, which is against the council’s long-standing policy of making them free to residents.

Car parking was not mentioned in the motion, which was altered by the Lib Dems before the meeting to make clear a commitment to free parking.

The Conservatives tabled an amendment removing support for bus franchising and placing the burden to deliver better rural bus services on Weca and new Labour metro mayor Dan Norris, who has responsibility for strategic transport, rather than the council.

Cabinet member Steve Reade said the motion did not recognise “the major investment that has been made to enable and enhance bus services and bus provision”.

He told the meeting in late May: “We will continue to work with Weca on providing a better bus service and I actually look forward to working with the new West of England mayor in delivering on his promise of a better

South Glos councillor Jayne Stansfield called for increased rural bus services bus service.”

The Tories’ amended motion was passed.

It was opposed by Lib Dems, while Labour abstained.

Conservative council leader Toby Savage accused Lib Dems of either seeking “to endorse a report they haven’t read”, sneaking through an attempt to “dump” the council’s free parking policy or making a “careless mistake”.

Lib Dem leader Claire Young in turn accused the Tories of playing “silly political games” and said the motion had “got the Conservative administration to acknowledge that our rural bus network is in dire need of investment”.

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Extra caravans at traveller family site agreed A FAMILY has been given permission to move more caravans on to a site where they live in Pucklechurch, despite objections from the parish council.

South Gloucestershire councillors said the addition of four caravans in the green belt was justified by “special circumstances”.

Sandra Ayres applied for permission to add two static and two touring caravans to the private site where she lives with her two sons and their families on the outskirts of the village.

At least four adults and two children live in “very cramped” conditions in two caravans on the site on Parkfield Road, according to a council report.

One of the sons was about to get married and needed his own home, and the extra caravans would only house people already living on the site, the report said.

Pucklechurch Parish Council objected to the proposal, saying it would harm the openness of the green belt and “contribute to urban sprawl”.

Council officers admitted four extra caravans was “inappropriate” for the green belt but told a planning meeting on June 10 that they would have a “negligible visual impact”.

The site on Parkfield Road The inappropriateness was overridden by “very special circumstances”, which could not be shared in detail with the public, a planning officer said.

These included the personal circumstances of the family and an insufficient number of gypsy and traveller sites in South Gloucestershire, councillors were told.

Officers said the site would not become a large gypsy and traveller encampment if the councillors approved the proposal.

A planning officer told the meeting: “The application is purely to accommodate existing

residents who live on that site.

“If Mrs Ayres departs, everything has to go. That’s been the case for a long time.”

Councillors unanimously approved the application, which had been referred to the committee by ward councillor Steve Reade, and said the extra caravans were “badly needed for Mrs Ayres and her family”.

Seven residents objected to the application but six members of the public wrote in support, describing the Ayres family as “excellent neighbours” and “valued members of the Pucklechurch community”.

Mrs Ayres first secured temporary permission to use the land as a private gypsy and traveller site for any spouse and dependents in 2014, and this was later made permanent. *Controversial plans to build seven homes at the Fleur de Lis pub in Shortwood Road were due to be discussed at the same meeting but a decision was delayed, after technical problems for people trying to speak to councillors via video.

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Youth employment service is much needed

Chris Skidmore writes for

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AS the local MP, I hear so many stories about how the past 18 months have been hard for so many – and young people in particular are facing economic and social challenges.

That’s why I welcome the launch of a new youth employment service from South Gloucestershire Council.

The ‘Works4Youth’ service for 16 to 25-year-olds living in South Gloucestershire is free to use and has been created following an increase in youth unemployment due to COVID-19, with numbers of young people and young adults claiming universal credit, not in education, employment or training, having more than doubled since the start of the pandemic.

Part of the Council’s ‘Recover and Rise Budget’ for 2021/22, the service has been funded with £468,000 of investment being successfully secured for its first year – half from the council and half from the government’s Department for Work & Pensions.

Young people can be referred to the service by the DWP but are also able to contact the service directly and self-refer. An employment coach will assess the young person’s needs before agreeing the most appropriate approach for them to secure a suitable opportunity.

For more information on ‘Works4Youth’ visit www. southglos.gov.uk/works4youth online, speak to the SGC support team on 01454 865009 or email works4youth@southglos.gov.uk.

This initiative will help Emersons and Lyde Green’s young people to grab the exciting local opportunities we know are coming – not least in the hi-tech businesses in our local economy.

I was reminded of these when visiting the National Composites Centre at the Science Park, which is the world-leading authority on composites, bringing together and developing the best minds and the best technologies, to solve the world’s most complex engineering challenges. The NCC

is next door to the new Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems, currently under construction and which will open in the next few months, providing yet more opportunities for local people to help solve global challenges.

Our local infrastructure would also be upgraded under the council’s proposals to improve traffic flow at the A4174 ring road roundabout junctions – similar to the changes currently under construction at the Wraxall Road roundabout.

The consultation is open until August 16 and would inform a bid to be submitted to the government for the required funding.

This funding that the government is potentially making available can only be used to upgrade major roads.

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Hi-tech centre attracts high-powered visitors

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng MP visits the National Composites Centre, above, while, right, Metro Mauor Dan Norris is pictured with Gill Walding centre CEO Richard Oldfield in front of the new robot arm EMERSONS Green’s National Composites Centre has been showing its cutting-edge technology - including a giant robot arm – to regional and national leaders.

Newly-elected Metro Mayor Dan Norris took a tour of the centre, where designers, researchers and engineers come together to create new composite materials which are stronger, lighter and less likely to corrode, in June.

The centre at the Bristol & Bath Science Park hosts a

Tip slip road plans win approval

£10 million project called Digital Engineering Technology & Innovation, which is funded by the West of England Combined Authority led by Mr Norris.

The Metro Mayor got to grips with the centre’s new 5-metrehigh robot arm.

He said: “What is happening here is the best in the world.

We have amazing people with a global reputation. Lighter and stronger materials are vital in a greener future and I am proud and excited by the role the West of England is playing.”

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng MP also visited the centre during a tour of South Gloucestershire businesses with council leader Toby Savage.

He said: “It was great to visit South Gloucestershire and get a first-hand view of the impressive work taking place in this global centre of excellence for aerospace and digital engineering.

“With industry leaders such as Airbus, GKN and Rolls Royce in such close proximity, and with the cutting-edge work of the National Composite Centre, it is

PLANS for a new slip road to cut queues at the Mangotsfield Sort It recycling centre have been approved.

South Gloucestershire Council bought just over two acres next to the tip in Carsons Road.

Queuing traffic at the site has been the subject of years of complaints by residents, particularly those living in the nearby Siston Hill estate.

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clear that South Gloucestershire is incredibly well-placed to not only help our country to build back better, but to compete on the world stage too.”

Composites centre chief executive Richard Oldfield said: “Composites have a huge role to play in helping the UK achieve its net zero targets across a number of industries, and the advances we are making in digital engineering are ensuring the UK stays at the forefront of engineering, solving some of the most complex challenges.”

road plans, expressing fears that, with traffic approaching from Rodway Common banned from turning right into the site, traffic would back up onto the nearby Carsons Road Link and Siston Hill roundabout, causing pollution. Objections were also made to the re-siting of recycling vehicles from the Warmley depot.

The scheme was approved after council officers recommended a series of conditions.

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n NEWS

Awards for helping to feed needy COMMUNITY awards have been given to people in two organisations who have been helping families in need.

Claire Collins and Steve Riches of the Resound Church Mangotsfield Food bank, were presented with awards for outstanding community service from Mangotsfield Residents Association and the Staple Hill Partnership by local councillor Michael Bell and Clive Heath, chair of the Mangotsfield Residents Association.

Cllr Bell said the Resound Foodbank had provided a "wonderful service to local needy families", offering food parcels and toiletries donated by residents.

Claire, who recently decided to step down from her role at the foodbank, said: "We both appreciate being recognised in this way, especially after the most interesting past 15 months which have been incredibly tough for everyone in more than a thousand different ways.

Claire Collins and Steve Riches of Resound receive their awards from Michael Bell and Clive Heath

Sally Bartram presents an award for job centre staff to Amanda Pemberton

"However we couldn't have done anything without the generous and consistent support of local businesses, residents, councillors, our FoodBank partners and every one of our amazing volunteers. It really has been a fantastic team effort."

Claire said she felt "a little sad" to leave the foodbank, set up by volunteers from local churches and the community in 2013.

She said: "It has been a rich and satisfying experience working with people who are so passionate to bring help and change to people's lives. However, I felt it was finally my time to move on from co-leading

FoodBank and to allow new timely change to come."

Meanwhile Staple Hill Community Hub nominated staff at Kingswood Job Centre for a community award.

Community hub manager Julie Snelling said the hub has had "terrific support" from the job centre team, with regular donations for the hub's emergency food parcels service, along with Christmas presents and Easter eggs for children.

Hub Trustee Sally Bartram, who organises the food parcel service, presented the award to Amanda Pemberton from the Job Centre.

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Making carers visible and valued A GROUP helping parents who care for children with special educational needs and disabilities is highlighting the work they do and the challenges they face.

South Glos Parents & Carers says the demands on parent carers can often go unnoticed, leaving individuals feeling overwhelmed, isolated, anxious or depressed.

Group member Adèle Grace-Keevil said: "After the tumultuous year we have endured – one in which children’s mental health has been significantly impacted – South Glos Parents & Carers have seen a significant increase in the number of parents requiring support for themselves and their children.

"The best way families can find support, effect change and help shape services is to join their local Parent Carer Forum."

South Glos Parents & Carers is a nonprofit community interest company, set up in 2009 by a group of mums to work collaboratively with the council and service providers and give its 1,400 members a voice.

Adele said: "We know there are many more parent carers in South Glos whose voices and lived experiences deserve to be heard.

"Parent Carers hold a wealth of information that is useful to professionals planning local and national services, to

meet the needs of our children with special educational needs and disability – and the more voices South Glos Parents & Carers has, the stronger we'll be!"

SEND covers areas including communication and interaction; cognition and learning; social, emotional and mental health; physical and sensory issues.

The forum published a blog to highlight the challenges facing carers for national Carer Week in June.

It can be found at bit.ly/3vznjn3.

To find out more about South Glos Parents & Carers visit the website at www.sglospc. org.uk or the group's Facebook page.

Helping breast cancer patients for 30 years Downend-based breast cancer charity BUST is celebrating its 30th birthday. Surgeon Simon Cawthorn, from Frenchay, who founded the charity with local patients, tells its story IN 1991, a few months after I was appointed as a surgeon with a special interest in breast cancer, I realised there was a need for a specialist service to enable all patients to be seen quickly and tested as soon as possible, because of the anxiety they were suffering.

The consultant radiologist appointed with me suggested a portable ultrasound scanner to take to the clinics and use during breast examinations.

I was loaned one, and immediately realised the huge potential it had, as it was pretty clear from the breast scan if the lump was a cancer or not.

Biopsies and x-rays were needed to confirm the diagnosis but the scan could be done there and then, speeding up a more accurate diagnosis.

Just after I realised the huge benefits – and the £40,000 cost – of the portable scanner, three of my first breast cancer patients asked me if there was anything they could do to help, and I suggested raising the money to buy one.

"Great," they said. "We will need to set up a charity, but will need a name for it."

Local GP Dr Paul Hepburn

Simon Cawthorn with members of a recent BUST committee came up with BUST – the Breast Ultrasound Scanner Trust.

The charity raised the cash, and I took the scanner to clinics at Frenchay and Cossham hospitals.

BUST’s aim over the 30 years since has been to help patients get the best care possible.

The Bristol Breast Care Centre at Southmead Hospital is now the fourth largest and one of the best-equipped in the UK, diagnosing 1,000 new patients a year.

Since it was founded BUST (now the Breast cancer Unit Support Trust) has raised almost £3 million, bought 18 other scanners and many other pieces of advanced medical equipment not funded within the NHS. The most recent piece

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of equipment was a Tomosynthesis mammogram add-on computer analysis system, which cost £130,000 and improves the accuracy of mammograms.

Patients are our supporters and fundraisers, and it provides a way for them to give something back.

BUST also makes donations to support research, and education and training for nurses. It provides information leaflets and holds meetings, where speakers talk about new treatments. These also provide an opportunity for patients to meet others like themselves, supporting each other.

BUST is currently raising money for a dedicated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner to investigate patients

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with symptoms and screen highrisk women. Preliminary results from clinical trials suggest many women may benefit from MRI screening.

These scanners cost over £1m. BUST has so far raised over £870,000 to be one of the first centres to provide this accurate screening.

The committee are volunteers and all former patients of the centre, along with myself – now a recently-retired surgeon.

Less than 1p in every pound raised goes in expenses.

We totally rely on our patients, families and friends to raise money for BUST. For more information about BUST or to donate, visit www. bustbristol.co.uk.

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n LYDE GREEN NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH

Reach out to your neighbours: you’re not alone NEIGHBOURHOOD Watch plays a vital role in our community.

The purpose is to feel safe in our homes and community and to reduce household crime, antisocial behaviour and eradicate bullying.

Did you know that having a NHW scheme in our area can reduce your home insurance by around 5%?

The additional benefits for us all include not having to feel alone, or live in fear or silence, but to have a strong, friendly and active community, where we share advice on issues such as personal safety, dealing with bogus callers, alerting our neighbours to be vigilant as well as being supportive of vulnerable residents.

There have been reports of bullying on social media and the community’s response has been overwhelmingly positive and supportive. Please do not

suffer in silence. Reach out to your neighbours and community, because you are not alone. Please do report incidents to the NHW team as these get logged and shared with the police.

We live in a world where truly caring and looking out for each other is so important, and Lyde Green NHW has proven to be a useful scheme for our residents.

We share information with the local police and they also attend our meetings when possible.

We work in partnership with other community initiatives, as well as with the council, who are

is to reward volunteers with donations from our community: for example, I would offer my life coaching services to someone who offered their social media services to the NHW. Another offer is for students to use this as work experience.

There is no greater gift than your time – it is precious, extremely valuable and appreciated.

Should you wish to take part in this initiative, or have other suggestions, contact us at info@ lydegreennhw.com, on Facebook @LydeGreenNHW or use our website lydegreennhw.com/ contact-us.

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extremely supportive of what we do. We all benefit!

Did you know that neighbourhood watch schemes are also supported by the police?

The initiatives are not owned by them but by the community members who volunteer to run them. The Lyde Green NHW has been in operation for a number of years now, and you may have seen our signs on lamp posts.

NHW would love to do so much more – and for this, we do need more volunteers. With so many talents living in our immediate radius, a suggestion

n LIBRARY NEWS

Update from Downend, Emersons Green and Staple Hill libraries

PACK your bags, head to Downend, Emersons Green or Staple Hill library to join Wild World Heroes, Summer Reading Challenge 2021!

To get involved, children read 6 books over the summer holiday and collect stickers to complete their special Wild World Heroes poster to get a medal and certificate. It’s FUN and FREE to take part.

Join the Wild World Heroes for the Summer Reading Challenge anytime from Saturday 10 July to Saturday 11 September, and discover how you can make a difference to the environment too.

Details of our staffed opening hours can be found at www. southglos.gov.uk/librarychanges.

Please encourage your children to visit the library and sign up and see the difference the Summer Reading Challenge makes to their reading.

NEW this year, there is also the Mini Challenge specially designed for pre-school children.

Pick up your FREE craft bag of awesome animal activities to make at home when you join Wild world Heroes.

Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/sgloslibraries and follow us on Twitter @southgloslibs for the latest Wild World Heroes update.

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n COMMUNITY NEWS

Lyde Green Open Space Group is back THE year 2020 was a strange time for most, but in all the doom and gloom there was a small bud laid dormant waiting to flower.

That flower is Lyde Green Openspace Group and, after a call for volunteers from Marie Burke at Livewest and Bella Thompson at Lyde Green Community Association, a small group of volunteers have been recruited.

Over the course of the last few months there has been a lot of work behind the scenes to reconnect with old contacts and push on with projects that were put on hold due to the group being dormant.

One of those projects is named ‘Sunflower-Power’, a community project where 200 flower kits were handed out.

Residents returned half to the group to be planted around the community and kept the other half for themselves to grow at home.

There has also been regular planting of the School Square planters, with residents taking care to look after them and keep them

watered though the drier weather.

Lyde Green OpenSpace had been entered into the Royal Horticultural Society ‘In Your Neighbourhood’ assessments for 2020 but due to the pandemic this was put on hold. There has recently been contact with an RHS assessor and judging will take place next month, with results due later in the year.

I am really pleased to see the group up and running again.

Being a resident of Lyde for over five years, I have seen the place evolve and transform into a wonderful community, with people proud of where they live.

We are dedicated to the open spaces around Lyde, with the common a wonderful jewel in the Lyde Green crown. We will be working hard to maintain the area and promote it as much as we can.

I want to thank our small group of volunteers who have been really dedicated to getting the group back up and running, Marie and Bella who have both put in the graft to get this wonderful group

back on its feet and to its founder, Cate, who really put the hours in getting this group off the ground a few years ago.

We are always looking for volunteers, so if anyone has a small bit of time to spare to help with our fundraising plans or to help out with future projects, we would love for you to get in touch.

The OpenSpace group is for all, so please feel free to get in touch with any ideas you have, any projects you would like to see or for more information about our work.

Laurence Binks Please check out the Facebook page @LydeGreenOpenSpace or email lgopenspace@gmail.com.

Laurence Binks (New chair of Lyde Green OpenSpace)

n NEWS FROM THE METRO MAYOR

We can all help our tourism sector recover THE West of England is truly amazing, as my first month as Metro Mayor has reminded me again and again. With Summer finally here, I’ve enjoyed speaking to a huge range of people and businesses vital to our tourism industry.

I had a great time at ‘We the Curious’ playing football with robots and seeing a TARDIS, plus I stuck my neck out and met some giraffes at Wild Place. I rode an e-bike in Bath. The fantastic Julian House is buying a fleet of these, thanks to a grant from the West of England Combined Authority, which I now lead, and they plan to get tourists on the bikes to create vital new income for the charity.

I discovered another way tourists can see Bath too: by paddle board! Wild Swim Bike Run is a small business that’s making a splash.

Run by ex-military man Darroch Davidson, they’ve also benefited from West of England Combined Authority cash and are looking to take on more staff. Now, I have to admit my paddle boarding experience was a bit wobbly!

But wobbly probably also reflects the wider mood in the tourism industry.

Launching a new events guide for our

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region with Visit Bristol and Bath, I found out more about the effect of the pandemic on our tourism industry. Over 3.8 million people used to visit annually, spending over £900m, and that meant local jobs and prosperity - around 8% of local employment is reliant on visitors.

The West of England Combined Authority has a number of important schemes to support our tourism sector. I have pledged to double the £9 million covid recovery fund to target those local businesses hardest hit by the pandemic. Then there is a scheme helping people match their skills to new jobs and our successful programme for those creative people working in the cultural sector musicians, artists and tour guides.

Worryingly, though, we still haven’t seen the Government’s Tourism Recovery Plan; great swathes of this sector have been excluded from current Government schemes.

One thing we can all do is support our local tourism attractions and pop into cafes and restaurants. After all, as the government keeps changing the countries where we are allowed to holiday in, in a way designed to perplex,

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I’m not sure that many people will be booking overseas breaks.

But we are so lucky with what’s on our doorstep. We also need to talk up our area as a brilliant place to visit. And that means all of our villages and beautiful market towns, too.

I was in Keynsham laying a paving slab as part of my plan to invest in our high streets because I don’t want people just to visit Bristol and Bath, wonderful as they are, and miss out on the equally brilliant bits in between.

We need a tourism strategy that brings jobs and opportunities to our whole region.

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n AROUND THE WIs

MANGOTSFIELD WI ON May 17 pubs and restaurants were allowed to open, and a good proportion of our members took the opportunity to meet up in person, combining that with supporting one of our local businesses, The Lamb in Mangotsfield.

Our regular ‘pub lunch’ is a feature of our yearly programme, originally set up by one of our past presidents, Anne Woolley. It was felt that the lunch provided a place for those who perhaps live alone, or do not like to go out at night, to interact in a safe daytime environment. It has been sorely missed during lockdown, and was wonderful.

However, our members who are working, and can’t attend at lunchtime, asked if we could have an evening version. So we have just held an ‘evening supper’, well supported by two thirds of our members at the same venue.

It was a great opportunity for everyone to chat about their lockdown experiences and how we are all looking forward to resuming normal meetings. We are currently planning for our Autumn and hopefully will be able to welcome speakers back to our hall and get our craft club sessions going again.

At our last meeting we discussed this year’s WI resolution, a call to increase the awareness of the subtle signs of ovarian cancer, and have voted to support. We will know in July if this has been nationally adopted.

To find out more about us, take a look at our Facebook page @MangotsfieldWomensInstitute or go to our website www. mangotsfieldwi.org.uk.

If you are not a member but would like to join us, please let me know by emailing carol@applause. co.uk.

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BEECHMERE BELLES WI IT’S the middle of the year already – how did that happen?

Beechmere Belles are halfway through 2021’s calendar and due to Covid we have had to stay on the ball with the meetings we had planned. So far, so good – we haven’t had a month where we haven’t been able to do anything.

Our committee have managed to plan something, and at times, have had to change those plans where needed, due to “the virus”.

I think it’s fair to say that all members, of whichever WI they belong to, have learnt to adapt,

go with the flow and embrace the technology around us that we may not have been involved with before.

In true WI style, us women have educated ourselves and kept up with the increasing speed of change the modern world brings with it, where the virtual world is concerned, and it really has been a case that geography no longer keeps us apart. We have been lucky enough to have the last couple of meetings given from distant parts of England.

I think everybody will agree, Zoom and Microsoft Teams have come into their own where keeping in touch is concerned. Is it just me or do you enjoy the fact that you only have to be concerned about your top half whilst joining in with these virtual meetings?

In May, Beechmere Belles had a lovely lady give us a talk about ‘Burlesque, Me and the WI’ via a Zoom meeting. This lady had been concerned about her bottom half for the meeting, and showed us her outfit, which she carried off beautifully: if I hadn’t felt bad enough about wearing my slouch pants, I certainly did after the effort she had gone to, to dress the part for the evening.

We were led through a very entertaining talk about how she became involved in burlesque in the first place, empty nest syndrome, through to her joining the biggest WI in the country at the time, and eventually becoming President of a new WI that was set up. She formed a burlesque

subgroup within her WI and members of all ages have joined in to learn the art of burlesque: it’s not all about tassels! They even put on shows – we saw the pictures, the costumes but most importantly the wonderful smiles of the ladies having the best time.

At present the Belles are not planning on setting up a burlesque subgroup, but never say never.

Another of our Zoom meetings had us being taught the art of macramé. I had never tried this before and I thoroughly enjoyed it. String or wool, a couple of knots and it’s amazing what can be achieved; okay, it’s a bit more than that, but no glue, no stitching, no staple guns (lethal things in my book) and you are away. We all made feather key rings and they all looked brilliant: my craft efforts don’t always resemble what I set out to achieve but this time I was up there with the rest. Felicity was brilliant at instructing us and I’m sure she will become a regular fixture in our craft event evening.

It seems that we still may not be able to return to our regular meeting place at Emersons Green Village Hall for another month, but the show goes on. I would like to thank all the lovely ladies that have remained members through all of this and the committee will do their best to arrange something special for when we have a bit more freedom. It may contain tassels, it may not, but what it will contain is a warm welcome back to our new normal.

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n LYDE GREEN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Summer Activities THINGS may feel like they are constantly changing at the moment: one minute we can look forward to a party and a gathering, the next we can’t.

But at the Lyde Green Community Association we want to stay positive and, better still, spread this positivity throughout the community!

As the summer break approaches, we are putting our heads together (while keeping our distance) to come up with any ideas that we can offer the community, to entertain the kids and adults over this period.

Ideas such as storytelling, craft, soft play sessions and dressing up or themed events are amongst others on the list.

We will be seeing how such events can be

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planned, taking into consideration the new government guidelines, including social distancing, cleaning regimes and capacity, along with many other factors.

Our main aim is provide a space over the summer to show that, no matter what is going on, we can, and we will, still have fun throughout the summer of 2021, whilst keeping everyone safe.

If you have any ideas that you would like to share with us, then please contact us through any of our details below using the hashtag #SummerAtLyde2021.

Until then, please keep an eye out for any updates on the website Soft play at Lyde Green Community Centre www.lydegreenca.org to find out more about the Lyde Green @LydeGreenCC or by email at info@lydegreenca.

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n LOCAL HISTORY

Football in Mangotsfield – a history As football's megastars battle it out in the European Championships, Mangotsfield Residents Association member David Blackmore looks at the history of local side Mangotsfield United IT was more than 130 years ago that Mangotsfield FC, the first football club in the village, was formed at a meeting in the Crown Hotel, St James Place.

On that day in August 1888 – years before many present day Premier League giants such as Liverpool, Chelsea and Leeds United were founded – 19-yearold Edward Alway Young of Rodway Hill Farm was made club captain and Jonathon Pendock of Dibden Farm (now the Langley Arms, Emersons Green) was made secretary.

The club played its games on land behind the Red Lion pub in St James Street, which was shared with the village cricket team.

In 1892 Mangotsfield FC were founder members of the Bristol & District League, which became the Western Football League in 1895.

That year saw the advent of professionalism in the sport, although Mangotsfield remained an amateur club and struggled over their first ten years, resigning from the Western League (Amateur) Division 1 in season 1897-98, after finishing bottom.

The club had been disciplined on a number of occasions due to the 'ungentlemanly' behaviour of supporters, who earned a reputation for “underhanded tactics”, hacking at the shins of any visiting player who strayed too close to the touchline or chasing after the referee if the team lost.

A move to a ground low on Pomphrey Hill earned them the nickname the Railway Men, due to the proximity of their ground to the Midland Railway line at Mangotsfield North Junction.

When the Cave family left Mangotsfield in 1922, they auctioned off their estates and farms in the area but left a field off Cossham Street, known as the Hut Field, to the village – and it has been the football club's home ever since.

Mangotsfield FC would reform and disband on several occasions

before eventually folding in 1952.

The previous year, players left without a team after the reserve XI was wound up had formed a new club – Mangotsfield United.

At the start of the 1951-52 season, United entered the Bristol & District League, Division Vll. Season 1952-53 was notable not just for them winning Bristol & District League Division VI but for two records that still stand to this day: the biggest home win, 17-0 over Hanham Sports, and the most goals scored in a season – 172 goals in 30 matches, an average of almost six a game.

Five successive promotions saw the club enter the Bristol & District Premier Combination in 1957.

This coincided with their first change of colours, from all-black with amber sleeves and hooped socks, to white shirts with black shorts and black and white socks.

The club's current colours – maroon shirts, sky blue shorts and white socks – came in the mid-1960s.

The club achieved a notable 'double' of the Premier Combination League title and the Gloucestershire FA (South) Senior Amateur Cup in March 1969, defeating the muchfancied Hanham Athletic of the Gloucestershire County League 4-1 in the final at Eastville Stadium.

In 1972-73, the club was accepted into the expanding Western League, managed by former Bristol Rovers full back Doug Hillard, and established itself there during the 1970’s.

During the 70s and 80s the successful youth team won 13 league titles and 10 knock-out competitions. Players who went on to professional careers, with clubs from Rovers and City to Liverpool, Everton and Aston Villa, included Gary Penrice, Nicky Tanner, Phil Purnell, Steve Talboys, Mike Hooper, Gary Megson, Steve White and Gary Warren – a tradition continued this year, when Louis Britton was signed by Bristol City.

Former Rovers and City players have come the other way and played for Mangotsfield, including Ray Mabbutt, Harold Jarman, Michael Meaker and David Seal, a former Australian U-23 international who made 246 appearances and scored 170 goals.

In 1991 the club, managed by former player Harold Jarman, won the Great Mills League Premier

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Mangotsfield FC, 1917

Mangotsfield United's 1952-53 Bristol & District League Division VI champions

The 2004/05 Southern League Division One West title winners Division title but were denied promotion to the Southern League as the Cossham Street ground failed to meet the necessary requirements. Most of the titlewinning team departed but the team generally managed to maintain top-six finishes and in 1992-93 recorded its biggest ever away victory, 14-0 over Dawlish Town.

The club's ambitions of promotion were thwarted by the continued success of Taunton Town and Tiverton Town, both of whom did not wish to be promoted and so halted the progression of other clubs.

Former player Andy Black returned to the club as manager in

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1999, guiding them to promotion to the Dr Martens Southern League and in 2004/05, under Martyn Grimshaw, the club took the Division One West title on a 21-match unbeaten run, reaching the Premier Division, where the club would spend four seasons.

The 2020/21 season would have been Mangotsfield United's 21st campaign as a Southern League club, but like the 2019/20 season it was declared null and void, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Often now known as the Mangos, the forthcoming campaign will be the 12th in the Southern Football League Division One South.

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n MESSAGE FROM AVON & SOMERSET PCC

Funding will help support survivors IT'S been a busy first few weeks in office and, as I’ve toured the patch, I feel honoured to have met some incredibly dedicated, diligent and caring officers, staff and teams doing some great work within our communities to keep people safe.

A key role of the Police and Crime Commissioner is to be the voice of local people, and I want to understand your concerns, listen to your ideas and learn how best I can support. My initial focus has been to meet with police officers and staff, to understand the issues faced by our policing family and the communities they serve. As this continues, my engagement will expand to meet with residents, partners and MPs on a weekly basis, from July onwards.

I am proud to be working on your behalf and am committed to delivering the pledges I set

out in my election manifesto.

Your needs are central to my work, and hearing from you is very important. As a result, this summer I will be launching a consultation survey focusing on what you’d like from your police service, which will then inform our Police and Crime Plan. More information about this survey will be on our website in the coming weeks.

My team and I have gathered much momentum and have set our early priority work areas that include the Police and Crime Plan, recruiting a new Chief Constable and other important roles, reviewing governance and scrutiny structures to improve openness and transparency in our police force and reviewing the effectiveness of police stations and buildings across the area. I will continue to update you as this work continues and

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With Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Shelford economic abuse, victims with complex needs, male victims, LGBT+ victims and victims with mental health issues and illnesses.

This is one of our largest funding achievements for victim services and I look forward to supporting the work of the new ISVAs and IDVAs.

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progresses.

I’m also delighted to share with you that we’ve secured one of our largest funding achievements for victim services, with £1 million in funding to support survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence.

This will fund 23 independent domestic violence advisor (IDVA) roles and eight independent sexual violence advisor (ISVA) specialist roles who will work alongside victim services, partners and local authorities.

A number of these new IDVAs and ISVAs will be specialist roles to ensure everyone who is a victim of domestic abuse or violence receives the support they need. Such specialisms include working with black and minority ethnic victims, elderly victims, children and young people, victims in rural communities, victims of

POLICE are investigating reports that a gun was pulled during a road rage incident outside Westerleigh Crematorium.

Officers say an altercation took place between the occupants of a silver Mitsubishi L200 pick-up, a black VW Golf and a white Audi A4 outside the crematorium, on the B4465 Westerleigh Road, at about 8pm on May 27.

They are calling for witnesses to the incident come forward.

An Avon and Somerset force spokesperson said: “Police are investigating a report that one of the individuals involved was in possession of a firearm.

“No persons were injured and officers believe this to be an isolated incident.” Anyone with information should call 101 and quote the crime reference number 5221 117 253.

Information can also be given anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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New manager as Mangos prepare for 2021/22 MANGOTSFIELD United have a new manager as the club prepares for its next league campaign.

Ray Johnstone is a former goalkeeper who played for Bristol Rovers, Bath City, Gloucester City and many local Bristol sides.

There was even a solitary appearance for the Mangos as well, back in December 2017 in a 2-0 home win over Didcot Town.

Ray has previously managed Portishead, Wells City, Odd Down and Hallen in the Toolstation League.

Ray replaces Glyn Ashton, who will remain at the club, returning to his previous role in player and club development.

Announcing the appointment, the club said: "Ray brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the role and is excited by the Mangotsfield United project.

"We wish him well in what we

hope will be an exciting season ahead.”

Ray outlined his plans and enthusiasm for the future in an interview on BBC Radio Bristol, with an emphasis once again on youth at the club, but with perhaps one or two experienced players helping to gel the youngsters together.

He will be assisted in the dugout by his new assistant, Terry Moore.

Like many non-league clubs, Mangotsfield United are eagerly awaiting the new 2021-2022

campaign, which will start in early August.

With the previous two campaigns both abandoned because of Covid-19, all nonleague clubs are hoping that next season will go to completion.

The club will continue to play in the Pitching In Southern Football League Division One South.

The division comes under Step 4 of the FA’s recently updated Non-League Pyramid guidelines, which stated that two clubs would be promoted per division – the champions and the winners of a four-team play-off.

Two clubs will be automatically relegated – but both the third and fourth-bottom sides will host a Step 5 runnerup in a promotion/relegation play-off.

This means there will be an intense battle for all clubs to keep away from the bottom four

places, instead of the usual two.

There are two new clubs coming into Division One South, with three clubs exiting, which means the new division will have only 19 clubs instead of 20.

The final two “end-of-season” friendlies in late May saw the Mangos share a 2-2 draw with South West Peninsula League Premier Division East side Stoke Gabriel at Cossham Street, with Mircea Ilea and George Neill scoring the home side's goals, followed a week later by a 3-1 win, also at home, against local side Wick.

No player departures or arrivals had been announced at the time of writing, and the club has pre-season friendlies planned at home to Keynsham Town on July 10 and away to Shepton Mallet on July 17, with more expected to be announced.

Dave Smale (MUFC Programme Editor)

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Golf has got me hooked DON’T let anyone tell you that golf is a gentle sport – it’s tiring!

Yes, I have succumbed to this thoroughly addictive pursuit. I now understand what people who have played the game for years mean when they say: there’ll always be one or two good shots that will tempt you back for your next round.

I’ve only been playing golf for two months but I’m already hooked. I’m the sort of person who needs to be serious about a new challenge – there’s no point getting involved if you’re not dedicated to the cause.

So I took some good advice from a few people who know about these things and joined a great local club, The Kendleshire at Coalpit Heath. It’s an excellent club and very friendly although, as a pure beginner, the course has a few too many water features for my liking. There are some wonderful lakes to hit balls into.

I already had some clubs from a previous venture into golf but, naturally, I had to invest in all the latest gear and an electric trolley.

At this point, I know what you’re thinking: here’s someone who has all the gear but no idea.

Well, to some extent that may be true but I have gained a fair bit of knowledge just by talking to and treating hundreds of my golfing chiropractic patients. And I’ve been learning the hard way that golf is a game you need to work on if you want to achieve maximum enjoyment from it.

I’m in the early stages of playing just nine holes at a time rather than the full 18. I have to admit I was exhausted after that first game, both mentally and physically. It must be getting easier though, as I don’t feel the need to drive around in a buggy anymore!

So clearly I’m in no position to offer any true golfing advice

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but I do know that warming up before stepping on to that first tee is an absolute must. I’m sure many golfers rush to the course and don’t have time to limber up beforehand.

But I would say it’s with giving yourself an extra 10 minutes to prepare properly, even it’s just a bit of stretching, to warm up some of the many muscles you’ll need to perform properly during what might be a four-hour round.

With the sort of hot weather we’ve been enjoying, it’s also extremely important to make sure the sun cream is liberally applied – and don’t forget to pack your golf bag with healthy drinks and snacks, so you don’t run out of energy.

On a personal note, I also need to take a generous supply of golf balls…

My thoracic spine and my ribs have taken took a pounding, especially when I hit the ground with my 7 iron. But I have to say that chiropractic is amazing for easing the movement through your spine – this will help you to make a full, pain-free swing.

Did I mention that moment when, maybe after a less than successful game, you hit a really good shot and that’s the one you

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I was lucky enough – well maybe there was a little bit of skill involved – to get very close to a hole-in-one on a par 3 hole.

My more experienced playing partners, Steve and Paul were even more surprised than me… and then they did the same, high elbows all round!

Were our shots a fluke? The only way to find out is to go back and try again. Happy golfing!

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Girls' match is a milestone for cricket club CARSONS and Mangotsfield have had a landmark achievement, with the very first match involving a girls' team taking place representing the club.

Whilst the match did end in defeat, it was a significant milestone for the club.

Club chairman Andy King felt that it was a good time to start the club in a new direction, as it celebrates 100 years of Carsons Cricket Club, and needed to reflect the growing girls' section, led by Mike Dowse and Chloe Micklethwaite.

With that in mind Chloe was invited to join the club’s main committee, as it was felt that we needed a female cricketer representing the girls and giving them a voice.

Andy was also able to report that the club have received substantial funding from the ECB as Carsons and Mangotsfield look to improve what they can offer to their All Stars and Dynamos Section.

The Carsons and Mangotsfield girls' team They are grateful for the support from the GCB, in what was a small pot of funds.

The club are already looking to plan for next season and are holding a social evening following a coaching course with Liam Dawson from the GCB. The coaching course is partly to thank those who have helped this season as volunteers and

Bobby takes nine wickets DOWNEND bowler Bobby Naeem took an incredible nine wickets for 22 runs as the club's first XI bowled out Taunton Deane bowling them out for 43 runs.

The club's openers reached their target in just six overs in the match on June 12, one of the high points in a mixed season so far.

The first XI also picked up a good win on May 15 against Bedminster but have been struggling in the West of England Premier Cricket League Premier One, and

also to get them on to the first rung of the coaching ladder.

July also sees a landmark game against the oldest club in the world, the MCC, to celebrate 100 years of Carsons. The MCC are being led by former club member Richard Trotman.

Whilst the make-up of the side is unknown, it is hoped that a number of ex-Gloucestershire

are currently in eighth place after losses to Clevedon, Cheltenham and Bath, being bowled out for under 100 in the first two games and losing by four wickets to Potterne in their most recent match.

The fixture at Bath was preceded by the club's sponsored walk, with supporters walking the 12 miles to the away match and raising £2,400, which will be split evenly between the club and nominated charity Marie Curie Cancer Care.

The 2XI are struggling to pick up a win but are quite short of players at the moment.

The 3XI are a young side and are playing some good cricket, winning some and losing some.

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The game is on July 11 at Pomphrey Hill, with an 11.30am start.

The Saturday and Sunday teams have also continued to progress well.

The first team are continuing to adjust to life in a higher division.

The second team are still top of their division, only having lost once this season.

The Third and Fourth teams are also continuing to be competitive in their respective divisions. Availability has been high, with the club getting close to running a 5th Xl. The Sunday Xl have only lost once this season, by one run to Bristol Pakistanis, in what captain Jack O’Hara described as a “ding-dong of a match”.

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