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  • Taxi driver’s lucky escape after object hurled at car

    By  Keynsham-People at 07:00 on 31/07/10
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    A TAXI driver had a narrow escape when a rock was thrown off a bridge on to his windscreen as he drove on the Keynsham bypass. Nigel Paginton was travelling along the A4 after dropping off a fare when the incident happened at around 10.40am on Thursday. The 47-year-old was close to the roundabout by the Co-op supermarket when a piece of masonry was thrown from a bridge on to his car. He said: “I was just cruising along at...
  • Couple campaign for cheaper bus fares

    By  welland at 16:40 on 30/07/10
    Jacob Rees-Mogg is urged to back campaign for cheaper bus rfaes.
    A young couple are urging Keynsham’s MP to back their campaign for cheaper bus fares. Laura Friend of Willsbridge and her boyfriend Adam Heard already have more then 120 signatures on their petition for cheaper bus fares in the area. They feel that if First Bus reduced the prices then more people would get on the buses. Laura said: “We have been to several places including Keynsham, Longwell Green, Bitton and Saltford...
  • Get on your bike

    By  Keynsham-People at 16:24 on 30/07/10
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    Nigel Vile takes a trip along the Midland Railway The Midland Railway running between Bristol and Bath was one of the unfortunate victims of the Beeching cuts of the 1960s. Freight was carried along the line for a few years following the withdrawal of passenger services, but the iron road finally closed in the early 1970s. Between 1979 and 1986 it was converted into the first purpose-built cycleway in the country, and now...
  • Police chief says it will ‘fast-track’ interviews

    By  Keynsham-People at 07:00 on 30/07/10
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    KEYNSHAM residents and businesses have been having their say on a new police centre for detaining and interviewing suspects. They were able to study the plans at the Drill Hall on Ashmead Road yesterday and ask questions about what the proposed new facility will involve. As part of Avon and Somerset police’s Building for the Future programme, the custody suite would be built on the site of Swanglen Furniture Ltd in Ashmead...
  • Rees-Mogg against voting reform

    By  welland at 19:23 on 29/07/10
    Jacob Rees-Mogg
    Keynsham’s new MP Jacob Rees-Mogg finds himself in the centre of a rebellion against coalition plans to reform voting. Jacob Rees Mogg, who represents North East Somerset, is one of the gang of more than 40 disgruntled Tories campaigning to shift the date of a referendum on the introduction of the Alternative Vote (AV) system. They fear holding it on the same day as Scottish and Welsh elections – May 5, 2011 –...

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