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Do you have Wigan Girls tickets?
If you're hoping to go to ACT's community play The Wigan Girls, make sure you buy your tickets soon. Friday night is nearly sold out, and ticket sales are brisk for the other nights. Click below for more information.

www.mythornbury.co.uk/act.php

Win a free Age Concern holiday
Age Concern South Gloucestershire is giving locals the chance to win an Age Concern holiday worth up to £1000.
The free prize draw, which aims to raise awareness of Age Concern Home Insurance, runs to 30th September 2009 and you can enter by visiting Age Concern South Gloucestershire at 34 St Mary Street, Thornbury, Bristol BS35 2AT.
Minute-taker needed
Could you spare just one hour a month to take minutes at meetings of Access-Ability, which supports disabled people across South Glos.?
You don't need shorthand - just the ability to make notes. Access-Ability desperately need help and can pick you up and drop you home. For more details, please contact Ann Hulme on 01454 329930, email below or call at 37 Batten Court, Chipping Sodbury.

Ann.Hulme@blueyonder.co.uk

More awards for Aldi
Aldi has scooped two awards at The Grocer Gold Awards - Grocer of the Year and Discounter of the Year, and won praise for its approach to providing high quality products at low prices.
The awards follow Aldi being named Best Supermarket at last week's Which? Awards and winning seven awards for its frozen food range at the British Frozen Food Federation Awards.

www.aldi.co.uk

Kids - enter a drawing competition
Here's your chance to win £20 in a money box in Morgan Stone Independent's kids' drawing competition.
To enter, design a money box, and take your entry to Morgan Stone by Monday 13th July.
Click below for more details and to download the entry form.

www.mythornbury.co.uk/obj/morgans...

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From 'Gazette Series':

POLICE in Thornbury are warning homeowners about the dangers of rogue traders after hundreds of 'misleading' leaflets were delivered in the town.

POLICE are appealing for witnesses after vandals caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage to the St Mary Shopping Centre in Thornbury.


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From BBC News:

A fire at a tower block in south London, in which six people were killed, is being treated as suspicious by police.

North Korea test-fires seven short-range missiles in an apparent act of defiance on America's Independence Day.


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Where next...?

NFU Mutual - click to visit our website

Tortworth Court

Black and Tan Studio - click to visit our website

Aldi - click to visit our website

Tortworth Estate Shop - Local farm shop

Memorial Woodlands: woodland cemetery and funeral directors

See The Hungerford Household at Acton Court

Oldbury Site Stakeholder Group

Thornbury Castle

Active Fitness

Old Down Country Park - click to visit our website

La Bruschetta - Ristorante Pizzeria Italiana

Peels Leisure Club, Tortworth Court