A popular car boot sale that takes place near Bradley Stoke is to re-open for the 2009 season this weekend. The Trench Lane Boot Sale, held on Sundays on a farmland site opposite the entrance to Woodlands Golf Club [map], will open for the first time this year on Sunday 3rd May. The site opens to sellers and buyers at
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The Journal can reveal that Bradley Stoke sex film producer James Edwards and his neighbours in The Coppice have met for talks at Filton Police Station in an attempt to resolve their differences. Matters came to a head in February when residents of the cul-de-sac staged an anti-porn and prostitution demonstration outside Mr Edwards’ house. The stunt hit the national
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Bradley Stoke Town Council is holding a ‘Clean Sweep’ litter picking day between 2:30pm and 6:30pm this Thursday (30th April). Residents are encouraged to “join in the fun” by forming litter picking groups for their local streets or helping out at organised clear ups around the Council’s activity centres at Brook Way, Baileys Court and the Jubilee Centre. South Gloucestershire
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Tesco Extra manager Oliver Hill is scheduled to address this week’s meeting of the Bradley Stoke Safer & Stronger Community Group to be held at Baileys Court Activity Centre on Tuesday evening (7pm start). Meeting chair Julie Snelling of Southern Brooks Community Partnership says Mr Hill, who has managed the store since it opened in October last year, will pick
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Bradley Stoke Town Footbal Club (BSTFC) have won promotion for the third consecutive season after a 3-0 victory over close rivals Shireway Sports at the Jubilee Centre on Saturday. The local team needed to win the match as a draw would have left Shireway with a chance of clinching the title with victory in their final game next Saturday. The
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Bradley Stoke’s new town centre is a step closer to completion after hoardings around the site were removed this week. The new ‘retail terrace’ of six large non-food outlets is now fully open to public view along with two smaller units on the north-western side of the Town Square, one of which is now decorated with the Ladbrokes logo. The
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The proposed move of Bradley Stoke’s youth clubs to the Brook Way Activity Centre could lead to the closure of other community groups in the town according to Town Clerk David Chandler. All youth clubs in the town are currently set to be transferred to the Brook Way site from 6th July 2009 following Bradley Stoke Town Council’s decision in
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The Journal has learned that a number of new tenants will soon be announced at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. Centre Manager Scott Lahive has disclosed that ‘under offer’ banners will be going up on seven units later this week. Four units in the Mall Two units in the soon-to-open Retail Terrace One unit in the Town Square (Ladbrokes) Earlier
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A Bradley Stoke runner is hoping to raise £1300 for a theatre charity by taking part in the Flora London Marathon this Sunday (26th April). Owen Wood (19) of Kemperley Way signed up just three months ago to represent the Chickenshed charity in the famous race. He has so far raised just short of £1200, mostly from colleagues at Canada
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The route of the ever-popular Bradley Stoke 10k race has been changed in response to feedback from runners and marshals at last year’s event. This year’s race, to be held on Sunday 14th June as part of the Bradley Stoke Community Festival, will start and finish at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. In previous years the race has
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