Inspector says yes to 595 homes

THORNBURY'S M&Co clothes store is set to close after administrators sold the brandbut none of the company's 170 shops.

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EXTRA staff are being moved into Eastwood Park women’s prison after a damning inspection report found some cells were “appalling and dilapidated”, with walls splattered with blood.

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THORNBURY'S Rock Street car park needs CCTV coverage, says a town police officer.

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CONTROVERSIAL plans to build 595 homers on the outskirts of Thornbury have been approved by a government inspector after a long planning battle.

Christina Downes ruled in favour of Barwood Development Securities, who want to build the homes on land west of Park Farm, saying the “very substantial benefits” of the new estate outweighed the harms to nearby listed buildings and loss of farmland.

The decision was described as "disappointing" by South Gloucestershire Council, which opposed the scheme but failed to determine it within the legal time limit, leading to the appeal and seven-day public inquiry.

Campaigners say they are "furious" with the way the council handled the application, accusing it of failing to prepare its case properly.

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A HISTORIC ruin unearthed by a retired Olveston teacher and amateur archaeologists from Thornbury has featured on popular BBC history programme Digging for Britain.

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