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July, 2024 Issue 128 FREE EVERY MONTH IN WINTERBOURNE, FRAMPTON COTTERELL, COALPIT HEATH, IRON ACTON & WINTERBOURNE DOWN
Festival returns
FRAMPTON Festival is back this month, five years after the popular free event was last held in the village. PAGE 5
Murder charge
Mark is an inspiration Mark Butcher (top row, centre) with best friend David Champion and fellow fundraisers at the Kokoro Fitness gym A FRAMPTON Cotterell man's ongoing fight against terminal cancer has inspired a huge fundraising effort. More than 50 friends and supporters of Mark Butcher, 45, came together at a gym in Iron Acton to take part in a gruelling 15-hour workout which has raised thousands for the two charities helping him and his family, St Peter’s Hospice and Bowel Cancer UK. It was named 'the Mother of all Workouts' after the 15-hours procedure father-of-one Mark spent
having his cancer cut out in a procedure called ‘the Mother of All Surgeries’ by doctors. As the Voice went to print the fundraising effort had raised more than £17,000, from more than 500 donors. Mark's best friend David Champion, of Chipping Sodbury, organised the event and said it "proved what an unbelievably amazing place the world can be when people come together for a worthy cause". Turn to page 3
A HAMBROOK man has appeared in court accused of murdering his father in the village. PAGE 2
General election guide All of the candidates standing in the Frome Valley area in July's general election have made their pitch to Voice readers. PAGES 6-9
Taxi crisis
SOUTH Gloucestershire is at risk of running out of taxis – and councillors are so worried, they could scrap a planned rule that every one must be made accessible for wheelchairs. PAGE 12
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