fishpondsvoice February, 2022 — ISSUE 83
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Born to run! Artist designs new park gate A new gate made by artist Paul Gulati has been installed at Eastville Park. PAGE 17
Children are making the most of a new 'daily mile' track laid down at Chester Park Junior School to improve pupils' health and wellbeing. Full story: Page 7
School mourns play worker
Stabbing: teens locked up A TEENAGER was lured to an ambush and stabbed nine times in Fishponds after receiving messages from a girl inviting him for a date. The victim received messages from a 16-year-old girl, asking him to meet her at the playing fields off Ridgeway Road in February last year. When he arrived he was attacked by a gang of teenage boys and "left for dead" but survived after
life-saving hospital treatment. One of the boys who carried out the stabbing, who was 16 at the time of the attack but is now 17, was sentenced to four years' youth custody at Bristol Crown Court on January 7, after admitting a charge of causing grievous bodily harm. Turn to Page 3
Staff and pupils at Fishponds CE Academy are mourning play worker Nigel Heath, who died aged 54 after a heart attack. PAGE 5
Steph's drive to succeed Steph Bedford, 32, from Fishponds, is closing in on her lifelong dream of becoming a racing driver. PAGE 27
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