Bowsland Green Primary School has submitted a planning application to create eleven additional parking places within the school grounds despite having to withdraw a similar plan earlier this year because planning officials considered it “contentious”. South Gloucestershire Council’s Local Plan suggests a cap of one parking space for every two members of staff, but with 15 spaces already available for
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Phoenix Dental Bradley Stoke is offering free oral cancer screenings for all patients as part of their NHS check up. The action is in support of November’s Mouth Cancer Action Month organised by the British Dental Health Foundation and Denplan. The practice will also be manning a display stand at the Willow Brook Centre Bradley Stoke on Sunday 22nd November
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Former Liverpool and Zimbabwe goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar is to speak at a function in Bradley Stoke on Saturday 5th December. The ticket-only event will take place at Baileys Court Inn after the footballer has played for Winterbourne United in their their Gloucestershire FA Trophy clash with Patchway Town. Tickets are said to be available from the pub. Read more: BBC
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— Click a thumbnail image to view a larger version — Three teams from a Bradley Stoke street dance group were victorious in their respective classes at the recent 2009 UDO Welsh Street Dance Championships in Newport. Fahrenheit Dance Studio Bristol’s K Boom team (pictured above, left) came first in the under-10 newcomer category. The group’s Escape team (centre) were
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The Bradley Stoke branch of Curves, the worldwide ladies-only fitness and health group, has ceased trading at the town’s Willow Brook shopping centre. Staff at the branch were told three weeks ago that the franchise was in financial difficulty but management said they were hopeful that the situation would improve in the new year, when gyms traditionally see a surge
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) was the subject of an Ofsted inspection last week and is currently awaiting the official report. Headmaster Dave Baker has told parents that: “the overall outcome was as positive as it could have been, which will validate what we have been doing”. The inspectors are said to have been very complimentary about the students and
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Campaigning for the upcoming by-election in Bradley Stoke’s Meadowbank parish ward is now under way, with the first party political leaflets being delivered to homes in the area. The by-election, which takes place on Thursday 26th November, sees one candidate from each of the local Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties battling for a seat that became vacant after David Skeet
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St Mary’s RC Primary School, located in Webbs Wood Road in Bradley Stoke, has once again been rated one of the best state primary schools in the country. The school is ranked 41st in the latest Sunday Times league tables, with pupils having achieved a composite score of 296 (out of a maximum possible 300) in the 2008 SATs. More
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Bradley Stoke’s first-ever cycle shop – known as “The Giant Store – Bristol” – staged a belated official celebration of its opening last Saturday (7th November) with a stunt show in the Town Square. Shoppers were treated to a day of shows courtesy of British trials rider and multiple World Record holder Andrei Burton, who is currently ranked number five
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A Bradley Stoke company has denied any connection with misleading slimming trial offers being offered over the internet. South Gloucestershire Council has received over 250 complaints, some from as far away as Australia and Canada, concerning two companies that use an Arden Close address as the location of their registered office. The complaints centre around signing-up with internet businesses using
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