Frome Valley Voice September 2021

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September, 2021 Issue 94

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Now it's time to celebrate Pub in music battle RESIDENTS said a pub's bid to stage live music in its beer garden would make their lives a "living hell".

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Homes for school A FORMER infant school site is set to be transformed into affordable housing.

PAGE 2 FREYA Mealing, Emma Louise Jones and Millie Nickson were among those celebrating as staff at Winterbourne Academy paid tribute to the "resilience and determination" of A-level and GCSE students who studied through the pandemic. Results round-up: Pages 6&7

School delay is a ' terrible failure' A TWO-year delay to the opening of a new primary school building in Winterbourne has been blasted by the area's MP. Elm Park Primary School in Nicholls Lane was originally due to move into its new building for the start of the new academic year in September.

But work on the site has yet to start, and South Gloucestershire Council says that changes to the

plans and delays related to the covid pandemic mean it will not now be ready for staff and pupils to use until September 2023.

The delay has been described as a "terrible failure" by MP Jack Lopresti, whose Filton & Bradley Stoke constituency includes Winterbourne.

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Bronze for dancers MEMBERS of a Winterbournebased dance school won a bronze medal representing their country at the Dance World Cup. PAGE 15

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Homes plan for former school A FORMER infant school in Frampton Cotterell is set to be transformed into affordable housing.

Housing association LiveWest has bought the land and buildings on the former Watermore Primary School infants site in Woodend Road, previously Brockeridge Infants, which closed at the end of 2019.

It intends to create a 100% affordable housing scheme at the site, providing homes for below market rent for social housing or shared ownership.

Frampton Cotterell Parish Council The former infant school revealed news of the deal and invited residents to attend a consultation meeting, where the proposals can be viewed and LiveWest representatives will be available to answer any questions.

The meeting is due to take place on September 8 from 3pm to 7pm at the Brockeridge Centre in Woodend Road.

LiveWest, which was formed from the merger of Knightstone Housing and Devon and Cornwall Housing (DCH) three years ago, owns and manages more than 38,000 homes across the region.

It plans to invest more than £1 billion in building 6,000 new homes in the region over the next five years, to tackle the housing shortage.

The council says people attending the meeting will be required to wear a face mask unless medically exempt, and further covid safety measures will be in place.

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MP blasts two-year delay in school opening From page 1 Mr Lopresti criticised the council in a Facebook post published in August, accompanied by a picture of him with head teacher Carol Bond at the site of the new building.

He said: "In September last year, I visited Elm Park Primary School in Winterbourne, which was shortly to start work on building South Gloucestershire's first 'Passivhaus' carbon neutral building.

"I came back this week at the head teacher Carol Bond's invitation.

"The site, as you can see, is ready to go – but building work has been so delayed that the School doesn't expect to have their new building before 2023.

"It was meant to open this October."

"This is a terrible failure by the Council to deliver this project.

"I will be writing to councillors and officers to put

MP Jack Lopresti and Elm Park head teacher Carol Bond at the site of the new school on record my concern, and will be pushing to see the new school built as soon as possible."

At the time funding was approved in 2019, the council gave this September as the opening date for the school.

The council said the existing building had become expensive to repair and maintain, and will be demolished.

Repairs had been carried out to keep the existing building

functional until the move can take place.

A council spokesperson said: “Revised plans for a brand-new building for Elm Park Primary School, built to energy efficient Passivhaus standards, were approved in Spring 2021, funded by a £1.2 million uplift in budget for the scheme.

"The design underlines the council’s commitment to the climate emergency declaration,

whilst also ensuring the school’s future energy consumption is substantially reduced, a vision agreed by the headteacher and endorsed by the wider school community.

"The new schedule, which has been affected in-part by factors such as delivering a lowcarbon design and the impact of Covid-19, will see the school building open in September 2023 with further enhanced learning environments for local children, (and) superseded the originally proposed plans to open in 2021.

"The redesign process also incorporated the relocation of the building on the site and changes to achieve additional funding from a nearby development to contribute towards the cost of providing the new school."

The change in the plans takes the overall cost of building the school from £4.9 million to £6.1m.

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n NEWS Climate walk A 'PILGRIMAGE' from Bristol to Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference will pass through Frampton Cotterell in September.

The western group of Camino to COP will leave Bristol's College Green at noon on September 9, walking to Frampton, where there will be a discussion at 7.30pm at Zion United Church before they rest after their first day, with all welcome.

The group, led by the Extinction Rebellion interfaith alliance, aims to "lobby and encourage our world leaders to truly grasp the implications of the climate crisis" when it reaches Glasgow on October 30.

Stephen Newell, from Zion United Church, said the church was "honoured to be welcoming and hosting" the group, adding: "Please join us to listen and learn, and also to encourage them on their way."

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135 miles not out FOUR friends from Winterbourne have walked from the County Ground in Bristol to Lord's cricket ground in London to raise money for the Brain Tumour Trust.

Jim Bath, Keith Ford and Nick Bracey, from Winterbourne Cricket Club, teamed up with Dave Over, a member of the Kendleshire Golf Club, to make the marathon trek to the home of cricket.

They decided to raise money for charity Brain Tumour Research in memory of Dave’s niece Zoe Beard, who died from a brain tumour in May last year.

The 135 mile journey was mostly along canal routes into London then onto Lords, where they were greeted by staff and given the tour of the famous Long Room and the rest of the ground.

Jim said: “Every day seemed

The four fundraisers at Lord's to get tougher, especially coming into the last five or six miles, but it was a case of pulling each other through.

"All of us have had feet issues with blisters and general wear and tear, so we loaded up with painkillers and just got on with it.

"Seeing those gates at Lords was a great feeling and the realisation of our achievement sank in.

"Keeping an eye on social media throughout the walk we were amazed by the amount of support we had. It’s something

we will all look back on and be immensely proud of."

Nick’s son James, the England cricketer, has donated his England shirt for auction to help the cause.

The group were also helped

by John Pearce who acted as their road crew.

More than £10,000 has already been raised for the charity, which funds scientists researching the biggest cancer killer among the under-40s.

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n NEWS A WINTERBOURNE pub has been given permission to open its beer garden later every night.

But councillors turned down an application to stage live music outside the George & Dragon, after neighbours said it would make their lives a "living hell".

The pub on Winterbourne Hill has had to clear its garden by 10pm every night since having its 2am weekend licence revoked in 2009, after police reported trouble from large groups of drinkers shouting obscenities, slamming car doors and urinating in the early hours.

But current landlady Georgina Harris said there had been no issues since she took over ten years ago.

She told a South Gloucestershire licensing hearing on August 17 that she currently had to battle with customers to get them inside at 10pm, and had lost some of them because of it.

Mrs Harris applied to use the beer garden until 11pm, and to be able to have bands and play recorded music outside until that time on Mondays to Thursdays, until 12.30am on Fridays and Saturdays and until 10.30pm on Sundays.

She also applied to sell alcohol to take away until 11pm, the time currently allowed under temporary covid rules.

Six people wrote letters in support, saying the pub was wellrun, had a family atmosphere and had helped the community through difficult times.

But 27 residents objected, saying noise from the garden would keep them and their children awake at night, and disturb home and shift workers during the day.

They said off sales could lead to litter and extra cars, worsening an already “horrendous” parking situation.

The meeting heard that the pub, which can take about 200 people in the garden and up to 100 inside, was in a quiet residential area.

In the past year, the council has received one complaint about noise from the pub garden but an inspection found the pub fully complied with licensing regulations.

Speaking on behalf of residents, Louise Mowbray, who has lived on Dragon Road near the pub for 20 years, said: “The provision of live music will turn the lives of residents into a living hell.

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Landlady Georgina Harris addresses the licensing meeting The George & Dragon beer garden

“It effectively licences a nightclub, an external nightclub, in a village setting.

“The residents I have been talking to have been talking about moving away if this goes through.”

Other residents who objected acknowledged that Mrs Harris was a “strong” landlady who kept noise to “reasonable” levels under the current licence.

Peter Crossman, whose bedroom overlooks the pub car park, said: “They run a great pub.”

Mrs Harris said she mainly wanted to be able to use the pub garden past 10pm.

She said: “When you have got to try and tell people when it’s a lovely sunny evening ‘you need to be inside now’, it’s a massive argument.

"It’s not like any other pub and I don’t think it’s fair.

"I want my garden like a normal pub’s garden. It’s not so much about the music. If you said the music had to stop at 11 o’clock I’d be happy with that.”

Mrs Harris said she would only want live bands in the garden “once a month, in the summer, if that”.

Recorded music would come from small speakers with a noise limit, she said.

The application was in the name of former landlord Steve Fionda, who still holds the licence. He said Mrs Harris always stuck to the rules, adding:

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"She’s known in Winterbourne as the Iron Lady. She don’t have no rubbish in there."

Councillors gave permission for the pub to play recorded

music outdoors from 11am to 11pm, seven days a week, but refused to allow live music in the garden.

Alcohol off-sales are permitted until 11pm.

The committee said a noise limiter must be installed to control the volume of music outside.

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Four A*s: Alex Carey

Three A*s: Molly Bliss and Megan Townshend

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Pride in achievements for A-level students STUDENTS who completed their A-levels at Winterbourne Academy this summer have "done themselves proud", says the school's head teacher.

Jason Beardmore praised the candidates who picked up their results in August for their "resilience and determination" after two years of disruption from the coronavirus pandemic, including home learning through three national lockdowns, periods of self-isolation for some pupils, and restrictions in school.

Students performed well on both academic and vocational courses with some subject groups reaching a 100% pass rate at grade A*-C, 67% of pupils who took applied health and social care, computer science or sociology achieved A or A* grades, and between 55% and 60% attaining the highest grades in maths and further maths.

Amongst the highest achievers were: Alex Carey, Aaron Cooper, Jack Simmons and Callum Stevens, who

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achieved four A*s; Nick Dight, Iliyan Genkov, Eva Dimery with 3A*’s and 1A; Felix Wright and Liberty Hargreaves, 1A* and 3As; Molly Bliss and Megan Townshend, 3A*s; Lewis Adamson, Emma Jones, Michael Lax, 3As; Megan Walsh with a BTEC Distinction and 3A; Rebecca Francis, 2A* 2A; Rui Hart, Abigail Hyden, Millie Nickson and Charlotte Wozniak, 2A*s 1A; Liberty Hargreaves, 1A* 3A; Ellie Kempton, BTEC Distinction 2A and Archie Kingscott, 1A* 2A. Students will be moving on to a range of universities including Oxford, Exeter, Bristol, Durham and Nottingham.

Following the cancellation of exams earlier this year, grades have been awarded through a process of teacher assessment, based on a range of evidence and marked against a national standard. Work was moderated by schools and academy trusts, and approved by exam boards.

While nationally there have been concerns about grades being higher than ever before, teachers insist each candidate fully deserves their grades.

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students at Winterbourne have once again done themselves proud and A-level achievement at Winterbourne remains as strong as ever.

"Many have scored fantastic top grades and exceeded expectations.

"We commend our students for their resilience and determination and wish them all the very best for the future.”

Assistant head teacher Danielle Jolosa said: “It is hugely inspiring to see this group of Winterbourne students excel and secure so many university places.

"Their success is testament to their hard work and dedication during a period in education which has been challenging in many ways, and different to the A-level experience they may have anticipated when they began their journey as sixth formers.

"I would like to extend my thanks to our dedicated staff, who have continued to set high standards and have provided our young people with every opportunity to fulfil their potential. We would like to wish everyone receiving their results today every success in the next chapter of their lives.”

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Four A*s: Aaron Cooper

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Hard work pays off in GCSEs PUPILS at Winterbourne Academy celebrated receiving their GCSE and BTEC qualifications after a final year "like no other".

With the pandemic disrupting more than half of their courses and the traditional summer exams were cancelled by the government, grades this year have been based on a range of evidence for each pupil gathered by teachers.

Staff carried out assessments, marked against national standards and then moderated before exam boards approved the final grades.

Head teacher Jason Beardmore said: “The staff and governors of Winterbourne Academy are very pleased and proud to share our GCSE results for 2021, which indicate the hard work and resilience of young people after what we all know has been a challenging and often unpredictable period

for all Key Stage 4 learners nationally.”

Amongst the highest performers, achieving the top grades 8 and 9 across the board, were Bill Aris, Ben Aubrey, James Chandler, Olivia Gold, Kiran Graham, Mila Jefferies, Emily McGrath, Ella Staveley, Kirsty Tidmus, and Ollie Walker.

Assistant head teacher Charlie Peake said: “I am extremely proud of the achievements of all Year 11 students at Winterbourne.

"They have endured a year like no other, yet their perseverance, hard work and determination has ensured numerous individual successes across a range of subjects.

"I wish them every success in the next stage of their education and all the best for their future.”

Many students will stay on at Winterbourne Academy for sixth form studies.

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Vigil at alpaca farm A SOUTH Gloucestershire farmer at the centre of a legal battle over the life of an alpaca has thanked supporters from around the world who have rallied to her cause.

Helen Macdonald, who runs a farm at Wickwar, has been fighting for four years to prove that Geronimo does not have a deadly animal disease.

Geronimo tested positive for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) after being imported from New Zealand in 2017.

But Helen claims the result was a false positive, caused because he had had injections Alpaca farmer Helen Macdonald of tuberculin – a protein combination used in the diagnosis with Geronimo of tuberculosis – as part of a skin test in New Zealand.

The impact of tuberculin on Alpacas has never been assessed and Helen has been calling for Geronimo to be kept alive so research can be carried out – a call which has been backed by a group of leading vets, including a former senior official at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

But Defra has refused to change its stance and, after an appeal hearing against a 'destruction warrant' was refused by a High Court judge in August, Defra was given until September 4 to put down the animal.

Since the order was granted, supporters have camped out at her farm to protest the decision and a 'Save Geronimo' petition on the change.org website had almost 140,000 supporters as the Voice went to press.

Helen said the support had turned into a "movement" - but said she had "heard nothing from Defra, nothing from the ministers, nothing from the chief veterinary officer," after calling on the Prime Minister and Environment Secretary to intervene in the case.

A Defra spokesperson said: “We are sympathetic to Ms Macdonald’s situation – just as we are with everyone with animals affected by this terrible disease. While nobody wants to cull animals, we need to do everything we can to tackle this disease to stop it spreading and to protect the livelihoods of those affected.”

Junction bans to stay CHANGES to the Hambrook traffic light junction introduced two years ago are to remain in place for some time to come.

South Gloucestershire Council was told by the government to cut levels of toxic nitrogen dioxide at the junction of the A4174 Avon Ring Road and the B4058 Bristol Road.

In August 2019 it used 'experimental traffic order' powers to ban vehicles coming east from Downend and south from Frenchay accessing the road towards Winterbourne, sending them around the nearby M32 roundabout instead.

The changes were supposed to be tried for up to 18 months to see if air quality improved.

But because the coronavirus lockdown reduced all traffic levels, the Government has told the council to continue monitoring air pollution at the site while motorists return to previous travelling habits following the lifting of restrictions.

The council has not given any indication of how long the layout changes will be kept in place.

A spokesperson said: "Traffic patterns were significantly disrupted by the various lockdown periods and the Government recognises that 2020/21 monitoring results can’t be used to assess the impact of the changes."

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5G mast planned for Frampton MOBILE phone company Three wants to put up an 18-metre tall communications mast in Frampton Cotterell to cover a 'black hole' for signals and provide 5G coverage.

The mast is planned for Beesmoor Road, by the bus stop next to the Park Farm Village Green. Three settled on the location after discounting six other potential spots, including Woodend Road and Ridings Road.

The company says modern mobile phone base stations operate on a low power and need to be in close proximity to the areas they serve.

It claims the 18m (59ft) height is the minimum to bring effective 5G coverage to the area.

In a submission to South Gloucestershire Council's planning department, the company said it was "committed to providing improved network coverage and capacity, most notably in relation to 5G services", describing high-speed mobile connectivity as "the lifeblood of a community" The company has started a consultation with local people.

Some Three customers in the area have found reception poor in the area, but some residents are opposing the plans.

One told the Voice the installation would end up “towering above the tree line and being an eyesore and possibly having health implications", adding: "I personally feel this is out of kilter with the rural village life and more suited for an urban industrial area.”

Three said it had chosen a design that had a "reduced visual impact" and site outside any conservation area.

The plans can be viewed by searching for application P21/05088/PN1 in the planning section of the council's website.

Homes for Afghan families SOME families from Afghanistan will be offered sanctuary in South Gloucestershire, as thousands seek refuge from persecution from the Taliban.

South Gloucestershire Council says it has identified three homes for Afghan households and is asking private landlords to come forward with more.

Councillor Franklin Owusu-Antwi, who has served in Afghanistan and is the authority’s Armed Forces champion, said: "We stand by our own Armed Forces veterans and others who risked and sacrificed so much to help in Afghanistan; so it is right that we also now stand by those local people who worked alongside them, often sharing the same risks, and who now need our help.”

MP Jack Lopresti, who served with the Territorial Army in Afghanistan during the autumn and winter of 2008-09, told the Voice: "Like most of my fellow MPs, I feel ashamed, angry and devastated by what I have seen happening in Afghanistan in recent days and weeks.

"I cannot help but keep remembering the ordinary people of Afghanistan and the locally-employed civilians who not only risked their lives but, by helping NATO forces, risked the lives of their families, friends and villages to Taliban reprisals.

"I was delighted and relieved beyond measure when the Prime Minister announced the resettlement and evacuation programme for refugees, which is a fantastic thing."

Mr Lopresti, who represents Winterbourne, added: "We cannot abandon the Afghan people and allow their country to once again become a base for international terrorism."

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n NEWS

World Cup bronze medal for dancers

MEMBERS of a Winterbournebased dance school won a bronze medal representing their country at the Dance World Cup. REDDS dance school, which trains at Winterbourne Community Centre in Watleys End Road, sent a team of dancers to compete in the mixed ages small group acro routine, which combines dance and gymnastics, to the rescheduled event, which took place in Telford in August.

But there was heartbreak for Winterbourne dancers Yasmin Davis, 13, and Lana Grice, 12, who were unable to take part.

Yate Academy Pupil Yasmin qualified two years ago for the street solo and a commercial solo categories, but a knee ligament injury meant that she was unable to take part and faces two years away from dancing.

Eve Chilcott, 14, form Winterbourne, was part of the medal-winning team, along with Yate dancers Molly MasonMounfield, 17, Alice Sheppard,

The REDDS team that won bronze at the Dance World Cup 14, Lola Sady, 14, Darcy Roberts, 12, Maya Helen Fraser, 13 and Lexie Jessup, 10, plus Libby Smith-Robinson, 18, of Warmley and Ailsa Parsons.

REDDS (Rhythm, Energy, Dance, Drama & Singing) principal Erin Cacacie, whose daughter Milan choreographed the routine, said: "I am so proud of my team and their World Cup Bronze Medal.

"We came back to live

dancing in April, we entered the Dance World Cup in May with a one-minute video of a routine we hadn't even created and Milan was lucky enough to choreograph for us.

"We had dancers who hadn't even returned to live dance classes properly by then or had properly practised acro during the entire lockdown due to space.

"During rehearsals we had students isolating for 10 days

due to covid, and had to wait for Milan to get free time to be able to finish the routine.

"We had no time to fundraise for costumes, uniform or entry administrations.

"We sadly had a student unable to perform one week before the event, which meant one of our dancers had six hours to learn the routine.

"And these girls, despite only learning this routine for two months, came away with a bronze medal.

"I really am excited for the future of this team and applying again for Dance World Cup 2022."

The Dance World Cup was originally due to be held in Italy last year but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

It was then set to be held in Spain but a change of plans meant it was relocated to Telford in Shropshire.

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1st Winterbourne Guides – our pandemic experience AFTER the initial shock of stopping guide meetings in person back in March 2021, 1st Winterbourne guides quickly took to Zoom, creating and completing our own bespoke Quarantine badge whilst getting used to meeting remotely through technology new to all.

As no one was going anywhere last summer, we didn’t take our usual break and continued straight though July and August.

Both guides and leaders have become quite expert at Zooming and have adapted the guiding programme to complete a wide range of activities, not just games and quizzes, but also cooking, stargazing and even learning to create web pages in a session with a software engineer from a local company.

Unfortunately, many of the major summer guiding events are still on hold, but we didn’t let that stop us as we took to the wider local area with a walk from Aust to Chepstow across the Severn Bridge and a trip by train to Gloucester to successfully follow clues to buried treasure.

All things being well, we expect to be back in the hall on Wednesday evenings from the autumn term.

We currently have a number of spaces in our unit, so if you are a 10-14 year old girl and would like to join us, either register on girlguiding.org.uk or email us at 1stWinterbourne.guides@gmail.com.

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Over the summer, as restrictions began to ease, we met outside each week at either New Leaze or

Monks Pool. This was so successful that we plan to repeat this arrangement next year.

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Frampton Cotterell Computer Group THE computer group will be resuming normal operations at the Brockeridge Centre in the week beginning September 6.

Following the hiatus caused by the coronavirus restrictions, the group is looking forward to welcoming back people who attended before the suspension, and new people keen to improve their knowledge and understanding of PCs and tablets.

Group chairman Keith Powell said: "It’s encouraging that the majority of our volunteers are keen to return and that we have already had a number of enquiries from

new people who want to join.

"We are in the process of trying to contact all those who attended before we had to suspend the group but if anyone doesn’t hear from us and would like to resume then they can contact the Brockeridge Centre to confirm their interest.

"We would also like to hear from new volunteers who would like to help others to improve their skills with modern digital technology."

The group can help with a variety of issues which people face with using PCs and tablets,

including: basic understanding; using the internet for online shopping and banking; staying in touch with email, social media, and video services; staying secure online; managing digital photos and using word processors and spreadsheets.

For more information contact the Brockeridge Centre on 01454 864442, email over50it_1@hotmail.co.uk or visit the website www.fccomputergroup.uk.

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n EDUCATION AUGUST 10th, 2021, was an uplifting results day for boomsatsuma College students, with all achieving a qualification, and an impressive 54% awarded a Distinction, or higher, opening up fantastic possibilities for them in Bristol’s creative sector.

Mark Curtis, boomsatsuma co-founder, said: “These students have come through challenging Covid-19 pandemic journeys over the past two years, so this is an important boost for them all. They all have these great platforms, that will help them move on to the next stages of their lives, be-it staying in education or into employment.

What’s enormous, is that they leave with so much more than qualifications, in terms of work-place experiences, selfconfidence and wider life-skills.

“We are now gearing up to return in September with next years’ students with most courses full, there are just a few spaces available for this year and we’ll be opening for 2023 enrolment to find the next generation of Bristol’s creative voices.”

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News from Winterbourne Environmental Group DISPOSABLE plastic plates and glasses were a familiar sight before and during the pandemic, but Winterbourne Down Carnival aims to take them off the menu.

Thanks to a grant from UWE Bristol and the Quartet Foundation, the carnival committee has worked with Winterbourne and Frome Valley Environmental Group to green future festivities.

Winterbourne Down Carnival is a community event which takes place over the May Day bank holiday each year. The last two years were cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions, but usually the main road through the village is closed to traffic and pop-up street stalls allow community interaction.

Until recently, the carnival threw away all rubbish, with no recycling.

Disposable plastic is made from oil, contributing to climate change. As well as that, a discarded plastic bottle can take up to 450 years to break down in landfill – that’s as long a period of time as when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne!

The carnival has now purchased new recycling bins for future carnivals.

Along with better signposting, upcoming events aim to reduce landfill waste, so that more materials can be utilised again.

Even better than recycling is not using disposable plastic at all.

The carnival has purchased reusable plastic cups for future festivals, so stallholders can rent out glasses for a deposit rather than contributing to landfill.

Three local village halls (All Saints, St Michael’s Rooms, and Winterbourne Methodist Church) also have new ‘party packs’ to hire out – a box of plates, cups, and jugs ready to cater for up to 40 children at a party. The new boxes are available with hall hire and aim to reduce the amount of needless waste thrown away.

The carnival aims to be back in 2022, so fingers crossed for a green welcome for the Green Man on May Day! Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers

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Helping to give every child the best start in life EVERY child in South Gloucestershire deserves the best possible start in life, so investing in special educational needs and disabilities educational provision in South Gloucestershire must be an absolute priority.

As part of our positive plan for schools, I have been working with the council to deliver the new 112-place Two Bridges Academy, which will educate and support children with severe learning w difficulties and autistic spectrum disorders.

Being built at the current Marlwood site, the brand new educational facility will provide tailored support and specialist equipment to local children ages 2-19 years old.

It will be an “all-through” school, which will mean it will provide places from nursery to sixth form, and it will have approximately 90 specialist staff.

The new school is currently

planned to open in September 2023. Plans for the new school include a hydrotherapy pool, specialist disability sports equipment for rebound therapy, changing facilities specially designed for young people with additional needs, soft play space for supporting sensory diet needs, outdoor wheelchair accessible play equipment and purpose-built lifeskills facilities.

Some of the school’s specialist facilities will also be made available for our local community to use and hire outside of school hours.

The Two Bridges Academy will be funded and delivered by the Department for Education, following our successful bid, as part of the Free Schools Programme.

Enable Trust, a local specialist education academy trust which runs New Siblands in Thornbury and Culverhill in Yate, will open and run the school.

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The new facility in our area is just part of the Government’s wider plans to improve SEND provision across the whole country. High needs funding was increased by £780 million in 2020-21, to ensure every pupil can access the education that is right for them, and a major crossgovernmental review of SEND provision has also been launched.

Since 2012, 43 new special free schools have already opened, with a further 48 approved to open in the future.

Improving special educational needs provision is just one key part of our positive plan for schools and family life. More widely, plans are in place to redevelop the existing Castle and Marlwood Schools, to construct two new primary schools in Yate, building a new secondary school at Lyde Green offering 900 places to local children and delivering the £78 million of repairs and upgrades for South

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Gloucestershire schools, including rural schools like Rangeworthy Primary, Iron Acton Primary and Old Sodbury Primary.

Delivering this new special educational needs and disabilities school is a key part of our positive plan for South Gloucestershire.

I am exceptionally grateful to everyone who has supported this vital project, and as ever, if you have any views about this new school, please do get in touch at luke.hall.mp@parliament.uk.

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n NEWS FROM THE METRO MAYOR

Code Red: Climate emergency needs leadership

LAST month’s United Nations report couldn’t have been clearer on the climate emergency: it’s Code Red for humanity.

Unless world leaders take urgent action, our planet carries on heating up, meaning more devastating floods, more fierce heatwaves, more vicious wildfires.

The easiest thing for decision-makers would be doing more of the same when it comes to economic growth and jobs. Some say that’s what created this global crisis. But leadership isn’t about taking easy decisions – quite the opposite. Radical and creative thinking is long overdue.

As a teenager growing up in our area, I remember a slogan of the time: “Think globally, act locally.”

That couldn’t be more apt.

I’m sticking firm to my commitment to oppose Bristol Airport’s proposed expansion. That isn’t about stunting economic growth, as some may paint it, it’s about taking urgent, pragmatic local action to protect our irreplaceable planet.

Of course we need more jobs here as we emerge from a brutal pandemic, but in green industries, not airports, investing in projects to help meet our ambitious goal of being carbon neutral by 2030.

This month I’ll launch a £20 million Green Recovery Fund, in line with the commitment I made to you during the spring’s Metro Mayor

election. You’ll hear more about this soon.

In four months since becoming Metro Mayor I’ve given funding to several other environmentally-focused projects.

Bristol’s biggest visitor attraction, Brunel’s SS Great Britain, bagged money from the West of England Combined Authority, which I lead, for a heat recovery device to stop its hull rusting.

Made by Husk, a Bristol company customising kitchen cabinets, received a grant for LED lighting and solar panels. Pentagon Play, a Bradley Stoke playground equipment firm, got money for energy-saving improvements to its building.

Embracing pedal power, I secured £248,000 from the government for electric bicycles which make it easier to get around, leaving cars at home without having to be a lycra-clad fitness fanatic! Look out for details of taster sessions, training courses and loan schemes.

That fits well with work just starting on a new cycling and walking trail, made possible by a £1 million grant from the West of England Combined Authority, around the stunning Chew Valley Lake, which is visited by thousands of people across our area, including me and my dog, Angel.

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n THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH

It's time to regroup and refocus FOR many, August could be seen as the end of the year - it certainly is in the Methodist Church, which uses the same academic year as schools and other education establishments.

For many, August and September are periods of relaxation and refreshment, as groups and activities ‘wind down’ for their summer breaks.

Perhaps this was even more so this year, given the last 18 months or so and all of the challenges and restrictions we have faced.

Summer 2021 gave us many more opportunities to relax and refresh compared to that which we experienced in 2020.

So as we enter September, we enter, in a way, a new period. A new era, when many people in this nation will have been double vaccinated, and hopefully the beginning of a new stage of our

relationship with COVID-19 that sees case numbers decrease; we might learn a new way of dealing with a disease which has controlled so much of our lives for the last two years.

There was an article written recently for religious leaders, but much of what it said can be transferred to other parts of life, and links quite well to our recent experiences of the Olympics and Paralympics.

Over the last 18 months we have, in many ways, been running a marathon, constantly tackling the challenges that we have faced, many of which have been because of COVID-19. Friends, I don’t know about you, but I am tired.

We are now reaching a point where we have got to the end of that marathon. The desire of many will be to get on with life, to hit the road running as if everything has

returned to early 2020.

The article went on to say, though, that we really should not be facing this next stage in that manner. We should not, and cannot, start another marathon just yet. We need to take the time, this summer and perhaps even beyond, to stop, regroup and refocus on what is important and what we should be committing our energy to.

Throughout scripture we see times when Jesus took himself away from the crowds in order to regroup and refocus. It was through these times of withdrawal that Jesus was able to move on to the next steps in his life.

I pray that you have, or will have, found space this summer to stop and to regroup, to prepare for what is next. I pray that you might be reinvigorated for this next part of life’s most precious journey.

Rev Leigh Maydew Bristol & South Gloucestershire Methodist Circuit

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n MOTORING

A guide to pre-owned cars with Richard Cooke

Second-hand Style Skoda Kamiq: Rhymes with comic USED cars have got more expensive since a Chinese laboratory definitely didn’t accidentally leak a new and potent flu onto an unsuspecting world.

Component prices have jumped, production is down, supply and demand comes into play and we all pay more for a second-hand motor.

What’s the alternative? Well, buying a new car is anathema to this column, but what if they were actually the better (ie cheaper) option?

I understand that 90% of new car buyers use some form of financing deal, so maybe I should test a new car and see what the fuss is about? Enter the Skoda Kamiq, which was only launched in the UK a year ago.

Turns out you can lease the 110bhp version of the Kamiq that I drove for £165 a month (£7,920 over the four-year period), with £1,750 as a down payment. That’s just under £10,000 in total (or £2.5k a year), which effectively covers the depreciation on the list price of £21k.

If you are buying new, you have to accept those numbers, and that after four years you have nothing to show for it. So far, so very boring. It also sounds expensive to me – why should I shoulder that much depreciation every year?

If the Kamiq was a real looker, it might be an easier sell.

Skoda says that this car ‘sets a new design standard for Skoda’. Wow. That standard can only be described as ‘Deathly Dull’, because the Kamiq is the definition of a wall flower.

Nothing wrong with that per se, and I actually prefer the looks to the more expensive (and mechanically identical) VW T-Cross. The VW tries to look like an SUV, which it isn’t. The Skoda keeps much closer to the look of an ordinary hatchback, which feels more honest.

After all, this is a front-wheel drive three cylinder hatchback that just happens to have some useful headroom. Manufacturers have squeezed the definition of the on-trend SUV segment so hard recently that they’ve just ended up making rivals to the ordinary Vauxhall Astra.

Step inside the Kamiq and all comparisons with an Astra vanish, though.

This is a really well made, expensive-feeling interior. Still deathly dull, but in a clinical and robust Germanic fashion.

I’d feel less annoyed about my monthly payments from the driver’s seat, that’s for sure. Start the Kamiq up and it thrums, like all three cylinder petrol engines.

I like that.

The 6 speed manual is a

delight to use, and the turbo-charged 1 litre engine (how cute) feels strong. I thought it was the 150hp 1.5 at first. It runs out of steam as the revs rise, but buyers coming from a diesel will be used to that.

At motorway speeds there’s more wind noise than I expected from a VW Group car, but it feels totally planted and safe.

For those who care, there are all sorts of infotainment extras you can add when buying new.

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Room in the back is excellent; I’m not sure how Skoda have managed this given the length of the Kamiq (not very long at all).

The boot is also a decent size.

Whether you want a Kamiq is, of course, your decision. I don’t want one, despite the excellent build quality, solid interior and willing little engine. I’d have a standard hatchback or even, shock, a saloon car.

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Speeding: a choice that puts others’ lives at risk

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ELLO to September – and good luck to all of those who are starting or returning to school, college and university.

Personally, I still cannot believe that we are almost three quarters of the way through 2021!

My team and I continue to gather momentum and I feel well and truly embedded within the role. As I discussed in my last column, the police and crime survey, which closes on September 20, continues to be a focus and I am still calling on local people and communities to tell me what policing issues matter most to them by completing it.

The feedback from the survey will help shape my Police and Crime Plan, a legal document that includes various aspects about the policing of the area, how the chief constable will be held to

account and how the PCC will use the money to deliver an effective and efficient service and support other services, such as victim support providers.

We’ve had a great response already to the survey, but we want to continue to hear from as many local people, from all walks of life, right up until it closes.

The survey is an opportunity for residents and businesses to tell me their views, thoughts and concerns about policing in their villages, towns and cities.

As PCC, I am the bridge between local people and the police, and I want as many people as possible to tell me what they want their police service to focus on. The survey takes just 10 minutes to complete and will make a real difference to policing in your communities. You can find it at my website, www.

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Last month, the Avon and Somerset road safety and road policing teams carried out enhanced operations across the area as part of a national speed enforcement campaign. Based on information and footage provided by local people, they targeted repeat offenders and speeding hotspots, including the Stoke Gifford area. They have also been working closely with partners including Community Speedwatch groups and local authorities to find solutions to some specific road safety concerns.

Speeding is a choice that puts others’ lives at risk and I want to thank those who comply with speed limits to keep themselves and others safe. I am delighted that the police are listening to local people and working hard to

With Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Shelford address them by working closely with partners including local authorities, Highways England and the fire services to find solutions to road safety concerns.

We all have a role to play in tackling speeding drivers, so do not forget that you can report speeding concerns to the police at www.avonandsomerset.police. uk/report.

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n RECIPE OF THE MONTH

Chance of an Indian Summer?

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Plain yoghurt -to serve Lemon wedges -to serve Mango chutney, pomegranate seeds - optional Preheat the oven to 200°C, gas mark 6.

IT has been a strange old summer - and something of a disappointment, especially when compared to last summer.

There are rumours that we may have a late burst of good weather, which would be a real treat.

And I have the perfect recipe for an alfresco lunch or supper.

It’s quick to make - made and on the table in half an hour.

It’s full of flavour and will definitely liven your palate. So, before we hit autumn with its earthy casseroles, go for something tantalisingly different.

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Music at the barn WINTERBOURNE Medieval Barn is rounding off the summer with a flurry of events, particularly musical ones.

The Summer Swing Barn Dance on September 4 at 7pm will be the first barn dance in the newly-refurbished Barn, with rousing tunes from Sargent’s Mess and expert caller Rob. On September 15 from 7.30pm jazz/folk/blues singer-songwriter Leonie Evans hosts an evening of intimate music, with guest performer Adam Beattie, a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist whose music spans many genres. This gig will be seated cabaret style.

Acclaimed musicians Chris Green and Sophie Matthews will take in 600 years of musical history in A Brief History of Music on September 21, in a whistle-stop 90-minute tour of music up to the 20th century.

The Barn and St Michael's church will be open free to all visitors to explore during Heritage Open Days on September 18 to 19.

At the barn's event, Edible England, visitors can see the productive vegetable garden and maybe have a go at botanical drawing.

Local artist Holly Dunham will be completing a painting on site and visitors can also drop into the Cartshed Cookery School to find out all about medieval cooking and have a taste of days gone by. A pop-up cafe will also be open and there will be free parking on site.

The month's final event is a talk on archival archaeology on September 28.

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Here’s what you do: Mix the lamb, onion, tomatoes, pine nuts, ground coriander, cumin seeds and allspice together in a large bowl and season.

Divide the lamb mixture into 4 equal pieces. Shape each piece into a teardrop to fit the naan bread.

Place the lamb teardrops onto a

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After 15 mins of cooking, place the naan breads, sprayed with a little water, on a baking tray and warm in the oven for 5 mins.

Then check that the meat is cooked to your liking.

Place the warm naan on individual plates and put one teardrop of lamb on each naan.

Serve with yoghurt, lemon wedges and chopped fresh coriander, and mango chutney if you like.

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On October 26 we’re hoping to hold a craft evening with Christmas gift stalls.

Other diary dates for the year are November 23 for our AGM and Christmas bingo in December, on a date to be confirmed.

Early next year we have Emma Britton, From Radio Shows to Funerals and Weddings, on January 25, Dogs for Medical Detection on February 22, with a New Year meal out earlier in the month, and Paul Green of Green Leaves Nursery on March 22.

Watch this space and our Facebook page, @FramptonCottWI, where you can also get in touch if you’re interested in joining us.

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WE enjoyed a wonderful get-together at the Medieval Barn on August 6 - our first since before covid struck.

Tea and cake never tasted so good, and everyone enjoyed catching up with their friends again. President Carol Shield and the committee worked very hard to make our first meeting for 18 months special. They had also kept in regular touch with our members during the lockdowns with phone calls, doorstep chats and occasional goody bags!

The barn looks magnificent: we are so lucky to have such a wonderful venue in our

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Winterbourne Evening WI will resume our regular meetings in September, on the second Thursday of every month at 7.30pm at St Michael’s School, Linden Close.

We now have over 50 members of all ages who will enjoy varied speakers and events, including our own Steve Slade talking to us in October about his adventures in the sky.

The evening will also be our 65th birthday, so we will have a cake and wine.

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Fun for Frampton juniors FRAMPTON Cotterell RFC juniors hosted a free family barbecue with games and inflatables for their members to bring everyone together and thank them for their continued support over what has been a difficult year for many.

The event held at Crossbow playing fields was a huge success.

Club president Nick Knight said: "It was a great afternoon with our Juniors, their families and coaches for their BBQ and fun events. So positive to see everyone having a good time and the field swamped with Frampton’s best.”

Coaches and other volunteers have worked tirelessly over the past 12 months to keep the junior players' love of rugby alive during lockdowns.

While they have not been able to get together, train or play for much of the time, they have found innovative ways of keeping the junior players engaged, from Zoom fitness classes to online cooking showing the master chef skills of some of the younger players.

This dedication led to the U12s' head coach Giles Fletcher becoming a finalist at the Mitsubishi Motors RFU Volunteer of the year awards, and he got the opportunity to attend a black tie dinner at Twickenham.

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It is great to see the volunteers of the club receiving recognition for the effort they put in.

As we start the new season, we are thrilled that the club and players will be able to return to what’s set to be rugby as normal.

We are always keen to welcome new players to the Fram family.

If your child is interested in getting involved in rugby, then bring them along.

Training sessions take place on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings at Crossbow and new players from u5’s-u16’s are always welcome to join our established teams.

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It involves plans to protect the area's "green infrastructure" of parks, woodland, farmland and water, and improve and create more habitat for nature.

Council cabinet member for the environment, Steve Reade, said the strategy "recognises that we all have a part to play in responding to the challenges of the changing climate and the nature crisis."

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Promotion chases at Winterbourne Cricket Club WITH the 2nds, 3rds and 4ths all competing for promotion, it’s Winterbourne Cricket Club's 5ths who have shown the rest how it’s done.

They are sitting comfortably in second place in their division, with the chasing pack unable to keep up and securing promotion with two weeks of the season to spare.

The stats show that this has been a team effort with the bat and ball, with three bowlers taking 30 wickets between them and four batsmen averaging around 30 or higher.

The 5ths will be moving into Division 12 next season, after back-to-back promotions.

The 2nds continue their push for not only promotion but their bid to claim the league title: with only two games in the season remaining they are 33 points

ahead of the chasing pack.

Having lost their 100% record earlier in the season they have consolidated their position at the top winning 2 of their last 4 completed games.

The 3rds are the main challenger to the top two promotion positions in their division, sitting six points away from second place at the time of writing. They gave themselves a chance with two wins out of the last three games, beating Congresbury and Long Ashton.

The 4ths have a 17-point lead at the top of Division Ten, with only 2 games in the season remaining, 28 more points guaranteeing the league title.

An away day to Bradley Stoke and a home match against Midsomer Norton Methodists lay between the 4ths and the title at the time of writing, following a

297-run win over neighbouring Frampton Cotterell, when the 4ths racked up 464 for 1 off their 40 overs.

The 1st team roller-coaster continues, winning four of their last five games, having only won twice in their first 11.

With two remaining they have been able to pull themselves up to 7th in the Prem 2 league but are not completely safe yet, with hard games away at Frome and home to Bishopston to finish the season, with the potential to have everything to play for going into that last game.

The youth set up has continued to show all the hard work around the club is paying off, with the Under 11s and Under 15s both making it to their Bristol Youth Cricket League cup finals.

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