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Players from Thornbury Town Football Club’s under-10s have a new supporter this season.
Desperate to play football, yet so short of resources they have been taking to the pitch barefoot, members of a Bristol team whose members are all refugees or asylum seekers – are celebrating a supply of new boots thanks to a firm of local housebuilders.
Mark your calendars as The Cotswold Cup is coming to Pontispool on September 9th and 10th.
Organisers of Cornwall’s surf and music festival, Boardmasters, will donate £50,000 to Newquay’s Concrete Waves Skatepark between now and 2025.
Law firm Clarke Willmott LLP has renewed its partnership with Somerset County Cricket Club.
A recent cross-country racing event for five local primary schools organised by The Castle School in Thornbury and run on their playing field, was greeted with huge enthusiasm by pupils taking part despite getting off to a damp start.
Local youth workers have thanked independent housebuilders, Redcliffe Homes, for their support in helping complete the new hub project at Thornbury Skate Park that gives local youngsters access to face-to-face listening and mentoring and has been recognised as being so worthwhile it has even continued through lockdown.
Marine Lake in Weston-super-Mare will reopen for the summer on Saturday 3 July after completion of the first stage of a £300,000 project to improve the popular community facility.
Over many years there has been a growing number of incidents around water safety relating to jet skis and small motorised boats at both Studland Bay and Swanage Bay. Last year, the problem was exacerbated as there was an increase in “staycation” visitor numbers, with more people bringing or hiring jet skis and boats.
National law firm Clarke Willmott LLP acted as UK advisors on a major deal between US-based sports and entertainment agency Wasserman and renowned German boxing promoters Team Sauerland.
