An agency branch of Santander Bank is to open soon at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. The branch will occupy the same shop unit as the former Nationwide Building Society branch, which closed in mysterious circumstances earlier this year. Hundreds of savers in Bradley Stoke were shocked to hear of the closure and say they never received a satisfactory explanation
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A number of summer holiday clubs and play schemes for school age children are now up and running in Bradley Stoke. The Four Towns Play Association is staging its annual 5 Alive play scheme for children 5-11 years old at Bradley Stoke Community School. The free holiday club runs for four weeks, until 20th August. No need to book –
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Friends and family of Ryan Abrahams, who passed away in March aged 14, are to take part in a sponsored walk to raise funds for a local children’s hospice. Ryan’s mother Mary will be joined by a group of friends for the Midnight Memory Walk, a seven-mile route around Bristol in September, to help celebrate her son’s life and raise
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The annual Summer Reading Challenge was launched at the recent official re-opening of Bradley Stoke Library, following a major extension to allow the library to improve services to children. This year’s ‘Space Hop‘ Challenge, which invites youngsters to help the young crew of the Ex Libris to set up the first library on the moon, is an adventure to help
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Ofsted has praised St Mary’s RC Primary School for sustaining its performance, which was rated “outstanding” at its last full inspection in March 2007. In a letter to parents, the government body says it will not be carrying out a further inspection until 1st September 2011 at the earliest. The decision is based on a number of factors that include
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Toby Cox of ‘Help Toby Walk‘ fame is back in Bradley Stoke following his selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) operation in the United States. The young cerebral palsy sufferer returned to school for the last few days of the summer term and is said to be “thrilled with his new body”. His regular local physiotherapist says she is amazed at Toby’s
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Bradley Stoke’s Savages Wood is at risk of being damaged by a major fire according to the local nature conservation group. The Three Brooks Blog, a publication of the Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group, says local youths have been gathering falling branches and logs to build bonfires in the wood. The problem is said to have worsened since a local
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The Friends of Jubilee Green (FOJG) are throwing a party on Saturday (24th July) to celebrate the first anniversary of the Jubilee Green Park. The £160,000 park, next to the Jubilee Centre on Savages Wood Road, was officially opened twelve months ago by the then-Mayor Cllr Mark Forsyth only to be temporarily closed days later to “allow completion of the
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Christopher Lee of Bradley Stoke Twinning Association has kindly provided the following report on the recent visit of a group from Champs-sur-Marne to Bradley Stoke (11th – 13th June 2010): We received our visitors on the Friday 11th evening at The BS Community School. Here we discussed exchange possibilities with representatives of Language Faculties,Football,Rugby,Netball and Local History. On Saturday BS
Continue readingBowsland Green Primary School will be hosting a circus on its playing field on Saturday 9th October at 2pm. Happy’s Circus travels the country and the various acts which include aerialists, illusionists, clowns, speciality acts from Britain and abroad will play to an audience of 600 in a traditional circus tent. Tickets go on sale from 24th July. Contact bowslandgreenpta@aol.com
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