Students at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) have been paying tribute to year 9 pupil Ryan Abrahams, who passed away last Tuesday. Ryan, who was born with a rare muscular disorder and relied on a motorized wheelchair to get around, was active in a number of sports (including wheelchair football and table top cricket) and was awarded the South Gloucestershire
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Bradley Stoke’s Deputy Mayor Ben Walker has expressed concern over obstruction of the pavement around the recently-erected works compound at Bradley Stoke Surgery on Brook Way. He raised the matter at last Wednesday’s Planning Committee meeting, asking if ISG Pearce – the contractor working on the surgery extension project, had permission to obstruct the highway in this way. He also
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Entries have now opened for the 2010 renewal of the Bradley Stoke 10k Run, to be held on Sunday 13th June as part of the town’s Community Festival. The increasingly popular event, organised by local ladies-only running club Sole Sisters, will take place over the same route as last year – starting and finishing at the Jubilee Centre in Savages
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has agreed a 2.5% rise in council tax for 2010/2011. The increase, agreed at last Wednesday’s Full Council meeting, is well below the government’s favoured CPI (Consumer Prices Index) measure of inflation, which registered 3.5% in January. It is however higher than the expected average Council Tax increase for all English authorities, which has been estimated
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Public left in the dark as work begins at Brook Way site Work has finally begun on the long-awaited expansion of Bradley Stoke Surgery but patients and local residents continue to be kept in the dark about developments at the Brook Way site. Construction firm ISG Pearce has installed a number of portacabins in the surgery’s car park and a
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Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) has been stung by a massive hike in the business rates it has to pay for the Jubilee Centre following the discovery of a clerical error made by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in 2005. This week’s meeting of the Council’s Finance Committee was told that a “manual error” within the records held by HMRC’s
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Cllr Robert Jones, arch-defender of Bradley Stoke’s media image, has replied to a critical letter that appeared last week in the Bristol Evening Post. In a letter headed “Scrap these Councils“, an unnamed reader had questioned the need for a Town Council in Bradley Stoke and called for “[Councillors’] pay and expense details [to be] published under the Freedom of
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has opened a public consultation on plans for a number of ‘raised table’ cycle crossings within Bradley Stoke. The proposed crossings are part of Cycling City Route 3, which will link Parkway Station to Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre. The Statement of Reasons document published by the Council explains: These crossing points consist of a raised table
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Management at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre say they were “shocked” when The Nationwide Building Society branch ceased trading without notice yesterday (Monday 15th). The agency branch, operated by 1st Equity (part of financial services company 1st Group UK of Thornbury), first opened on Monday 20th October 2008 – one week after the official opening of the Willow Brook Centre.
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Two Muslim women from Bradley Stoke feature in a innovative photographic exhibition that opens today (Monday 15th) at Bristol Central Library. The Building the Bridge project, which aims to to build understanding between the city’s Muslims and the wider community, celebrates ordinary Muslims living in Bristol. Each of the twelve subjects is photographed beside a city landmark or in a
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