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BBC News
5 hours ago
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Rusty nails scattered in car boot field injure dog and owner
A woman and her dog were injured by rusty roofing tacks that had been thrown across a car boot sale site ahead of its reopening, a council leader has Hilton, leader of Gloucester City Council, said thousands of nails were scattered across Hempsted Meadow in "a deliberate and dangerous act of vandalism".He said they posed a risk of tetanus to anyone who stepped on them, and could have caused delayed road crashes if car tyres had been punctured."We know a woman and her dog got injured by one of the rusty nails but if someone had a puncture on the M5 having been there, we don't know what the consequences would be," he said. Mr Hilton said "everybody was excited" for the reopening of the car boot sale site on 20 July but the event had to be postponed until 27 July after the tacks were discovered on said security measures at the site on David Hook Way would be increased in the run-up to the rescheduled city council has been helping operator Capital Boot Sales to clear the site, using large magnets to lift the nails."This could have risked people's lives," Mr Hilton said."It was really careless and I don't understand the mindset of anybody who would want to spread rusty nails, strategically placed, where they knew there'd be cars coming in and out of the site."He added it looked like the nails came from a "post-restoration or demolition project". The council had closed the site last winter to work on it and because the lease was up for renewal. In May, it announced Capital Boot Sales had been appointed to run the car Police asked anyone with information about the incident to get in touch.
Yahoo
3 days ago
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Talks under way about future of ex-pub building
Talks are under way about the future of a well-known former pub, a council leader says. Chambers in Gloucester was part of the city centre's nightlife for years but it was closed in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic and never reopened. Gloucester City Council leader Jeremy Hilton told councillors the local authority was "close to finishing discussions" with a food and beverage outlet. He said he could not reveal more details until "the legals have been done". The council had previously advertised the site on a leasehold basis and at least one bid was submitted which included a vision for a pub with a cafe, food and games space. However, nothing came from that proposal, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said. More news stories for Gloucestershire Listen to the latest news for Gloucestershire Conservative opposition leader of the council Stephanie Chambers called the building - which is currently boarded up in Kings Square - "derelict" and an "eyesore". "I wouldn't like to see some sort of nightclubby type place there," she told a council meeting on Thursday. The new tenants of the space would become part of the ongoing £200m regeneration of Gloucester city centre, alongside the soon-to-be finished University of Gloucestershire campus in the former Debenhams building and The Forum. Follow BBC Gloucestershire on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to us on email or via WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630. More on this story Popular pub for lease in £200m city centre revamp Related internet links Gloucester City Council
BBC News
6 days ago
- BBC News
New team to tackle Gloucester city centre antisocial behaviour
A new initiative, thought to be one of the first in the country, has been launched to tackle antisocial behaviour "from start to finish".Gloucester City Council has allocated £200,000 for the two-year scheme, which will involve finding long-term accommodation for homeless people by employing two new engagement council hopes to "take ownership" of antisocial behaviour in the city and "see [individuals] through the whole journey", said Josh Griffiths, one of the new Rebecca Trimnell said the initiative had been created over concerns from residents regarding antisocial behaviour, such as swearing and shouting, but also the welfare of vulnerable people. "We've got lots of different agencies that do a fantastic job with these individuals," Mr Griffiths said. "When you go out and talk to these people, there is a story, there is a person behind that and you can see they don't want to be in that situation."We want to give [them] that constant individual to see them through the whole journey."The initiative is in line with one of the objectives in Gloucester City Council's new corporate plan to ensure people feel safe in the city centre and antisocial behaviour and crime are dealt with appropriately. Emily Bolland, the council's community safety lead, said the new engagement officers will be a "consistent resource"."We know the issues we're seeing are rooted in drinking, drugs and trauma people have had in the past," she said."And we know that those issues can't be dealt with if we just engage with people sporadically, and they can't only be dealt with through enforcement."The new officers are here to engage on a very person-centred basis to try and change those behaviours."
BBC News
10-07-2025
- General
- BBC News
Changes made by council after people buried in wrong graves
A council has made changes to ensure no one is buried in the wrong grave again after two mix-ups at a City Council chiefs apologised earlier this year after mistakes led to two people being buried in the wrong places at Coney Hill Cemetery and council is now working on digitising its cremation and burial records, and the name of the deceased will be placed on the grave with a metal stand ahead of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, councillor Declan Wilson said: "We have engaged with the families and we have apologised to them." The Local Democracy Reporting Service reports that councillor Alastair Chambers first raised awareness of the mistakes in March after Sallyann Anderson, who paid for a plot beside her parents' graves in 2018, visited the cemetery to discover another Sallyann had been buried in April, she told the BBC she was "happy" an exhumation was going to take Wednesday's meeting, Mr Chambers thanked the council for making changes to ensure people are buried in the correct graves, and asked if council chiefs would apologise on behalf of Gloucester City Wilson said he was happy to put the council's apology on the record. He said the council created a spreadsheet for every purchase of reserve graves going all the way back to are now plans to move all of the old records into an electronic cremation and burial system, rather than having them on Chambers said that while it was good to see changes have been made, there would still be a need for burials to be double checked."Given the nature around it, it's really good to get the name tag of the person that is buried there," he said."But please don't forget you buried a Sallyann in the wrong Sallyann's grave. So double checks still need to be done on that."
BBC News
09-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Gloucester's King's Quarter £107m project hit with further delays
A city's £107m flagship regeneration project has been hit with further delays as council bosses have confirmed a new hotel will not open until City Council has not explained the reasons behind the latest hold up to the King's Quarter, but a spokesperson said the opening of Hotel Indigo has been pushed back from November to next complete, the King's Quarter project – which includes the Forum - will provide 135,000sq ft (12,541 sq m) of office space, shops, restaurants, and a multi-storey car park.A council spokesperson described the latest delay as a "snagging" issue, which was identified by contractors as an isolated problem. The discovery of an unmapped 24-inch gas main previously held up the project, according to the Local Democracy Reporting bosses said this required complex repair work. Then, workers found the remains of a 13th Century Friary which triggered an archaeological excavation."The multi-storey car park and public open spaces are due to open in the autumn, and with recruitment well under way, the timeline for welcoming guests to Hotel Indigo will be early next year," a council spokesperson added.
