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June, 2024 Issue 127 FREE EVERY MONTH IN WINTERBOURNE, FRAMPTON COTTERELL, COALPIT HEATH, IRON ACTON & WINTERBOURNE DOWN
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Frampton Cotterell Cricket Club members are celebrating their centenary season with a series of special events - and their own beer. Sport: Page 28
Cup triumph for Fram FRAMPTON Cotterell Rugby Club have won the Bristol Combination Vase cup, 20 years on from their last win. PAGE 30
New bridge revealed
NATIONAL Highways has revealed a glimpse of what the replacement for the Badminton Road bridge over the M4 could look like. PAGE 3
Row over 'intolerable' junction WINTERBOURNE'S MP has called for an end to the "intolerable" delays caused by traffic restrictions at the Hambrook lights – sparking a furious response. Jack Lopresti has joined Conservative councillors representing wards near the junction of the Avon Ring Road and Bristol Road to call on South Gloucestershire Council to either reverse or rethink the restrictions. They say they are backing residents who have signed an online petition, which has gained around
4,000 supporters, calling for the changes – which divert traffic heading towards Winterbourne around the M32 roundabout – to be reversed. But the Liberal Democrat council cabinet member in charge of infrastructure says it is "ridiculous" that the Tories are demanding changes to arrangements they introduced when they were still in charge of the council in 2019, at the insistence of a Conservative government. Turn to page 3
Carnival is 'biggest yet'
ORGANISERS of this year's Winterbourne down Village carnival say this year's turnout was "absolutely the biggest yet". PAGE 5
Lights display
VOICE readers have shared their pictures after the Northern Lights appeared above the Frome Valley. PAGE 9
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