Bradley Stoke Cricket Club (BSCC) is looking for new players of all ages and abilities for the coming season. The club, based at the Baileys Court Activity Centre, says it will have seven adult teams playing on Saturdays and Sundays. Games are also staged on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, when teams from six local companies compete in a round robin
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Children from Wheatfield Primary School were joined by members of the Bradley Stoke neighbourhood police team on a mile-long run on Sport Relief day (19th March). Police and parents acted as marshals for the event, which took place partly on public roads around the school. Read more: Avon and Somerset Police
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Bradley Stoke Councillors have given a further thumbs down to plans for cycle crossings in the town despite compromises being made by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) following the Town Council’s earlier objection. SGC now says it is prepared to abandon plans for a ‘raised table’ crossing on Fiddlers Wood Lane, close to the Bradley Stoke Way roundabout, replacing it with
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GLOSS FM will be broadcasting on 87.7 FM from Monday 19th April to Sunday 16th May, covering Bradley Stoke and neighbouring communities. You can also listen on line via our website www.glossfm.org where you can get full details of our varied programme, which includes something for everyone. Run entirely by volunteers, we want to promote local events and activities and
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Dave Baker, Headteacher of Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), has successfully completed a charity swim that saw him cover the height of Everest (8,848 metres or 354 lengths of a swimming pool) in a little over three and a half hours. The remarkable feat, in aid of the school’s minibus fund, was performed at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre on Sport
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The Friends of Jubilee Green (FOJG) are staging an Easter Fun Day this Sunday (28th March). The group is hoping for fine weather between 2pm and 3pm , when an Easter egg hunt and Easter bonnet parade will take place around the park. Refreshments will be available in The Woodlands Suite of the adjacent Jubilee Centre, where craft activities will
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Draft minutes of a recent Bradley Stoke Town Council meeting appear to expose a deceitful attitude to the public consultation process. A resident attending last week’s Full Council meeting queried why the agenda indicated that discussion of issues surrounding the relocation of the Council’s offices would be held in private. Draft minutes of the 17th March meeting, recently published on
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Town Councillors in Bradley Stoke have been discussing options for upgrading direction signs on roads leading to the town centre. The discussion was prompted by a request made to South Gloucestershire Council by the Willow Brook Centre, which wants to see the signs rationalised. At present, visitors looking for the centre face a confusing variety of descriptions on the town’s
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The Journal is pleased to announce that our Filton and Bradley Stoke 2010 General Election page is now carrying automatically updated news alerts from the local candidates of all three major party candidates. Following a request from The Journal, Conservative candidate Jack Lopresti has now fixed the RSS feed on his jacklopresti.com website, which enables us to automatically grab his
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Work on an extension to Bradley Stoke Library began last week, just days before the end of the financial year in which the Council promised to make the investment. Money for the extension was allocated in South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) 2009/2010 budget announced in February 2009 and a planning application was submitted in September. With the end of the financial
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