Paul Nowicki, 90, first drove one of the vehicles in the 1950s, having arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker from Poland, following World War Two. He died earlier this month and the digger was used to carry his coffin from his home village of ...
ONE of Britain's first ever Digger drivers was carried to his funeral today in the bucket of a JCB. Paul Nowicki, 90, from Pucklechurch, began working as a building labourer in the late 1950s and operated digging machinery until his retirement. He was ...
Mr Justice Singh had, in November 2014, sided with South Gloucestershire District Council in its fight against use of land at Sloes Well Paddock, Westerleigh Road, Pucklechurch, for a mobile home for a gypsy – identified only by the initials AZ due to ...
Homes in Chipping Sodbury, Pucklechurch and Wick are without power after gale force winds and heavy rain from Storm Imogen. The homes, according to Western Power Distribution's website, will be back up and running by 9:30am. The storm has hit the ...
A PRISON for sex offenders in the village of Pucklechurch is well led and has been rated good after an unannounced inspection. HMP Ashfield, which in 2013 was re-designated from a young offenders' institute to a Category C jail for 400 men who have all ...
PUCKLECHURCH Sports turned up the heat on leaders De Veys and second-placed Bristol Barcelona with a hard-fought 4-2 home victory over lowly Rangeworthy in the Senior Division. 'Church had slipped to a 2-0 defeat in their own Rec backyard at the ...