Abigail Newton Smith, the cerebral palsy sufferer from Bradley Stoke who is about to travel to the USA for a life-changing operation, was featured on BBC1’s Inside Out West programme last night (Monday 29th). Nine-year-old Abigail, who attends Bowsland Green Primary School, is due to undergo the selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) operation at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital on 16th
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The Bradley Stoke Fireworks Display, held annually at the Jubilee Centre, may have to move to another site if health and safety concerns arising from the large attendance cannot be resolved, the Town Council heard last week. Crowds at the event reached five to six thousand in 2009, when numbers were swelled due to the cancellation of the popular Clifton
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Bradley Stoke could soon have no less than three late-night, seven-days-a-week, pharmacies after a rush of planning and licensing applications in the last couple of months. Boots, due to open soon at the Willow Brook Centre, became the first to reveal its hand when it submitted a planning application that included references to a “midnight pharmacy” at its new store.
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The Friends of Jubilee Green (FoJG) group has announced that it has won a grant award of £350 from the Wakeham Trust to go towards its Enablement Project. The money will allow the group to employ the services of a landscape architect to help produce plans and obtain costings for three future projects at the play park on Jubilee Green.
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There’s just a week left to enter the Willow Brook Clinic’s competition to win a course of three free 30-minute massage treatments. The competition, organised in conjunction with The Journal, is being run to mark the first anniversary of the chiropractic and physiotherapy clinic based on the first floor of the Willow Brook Centre. Entries must be received by Tuesday
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Bradley Stoke’s new Harvester Salad & Grill will be officially opened by the Chair of South Gloucestershire Council, Cllr Janet Biggin, at 11am on Tuesday 23rd November. The new restaurant at the Willow Brook Shopping Centre has created 60 jobs for local people, and offers freshly prepared and great value meals for all the family, including Original Spitroast Chicken and
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Local MP Jack Lopresti visted the Willow Brook Centre on Saturday to join Town Councillors in welcoming support from Bradley Stoke businesses in the campaign to bring faster broadband connections to the town. About 2,000 homes in Bradley Stoke have very poor broadband speeds because they are too far away from the BT exchanges at Filton and Almondsbury and their
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But have you received your new bins and recycling bags? South Gloucestershire Council’s new kerbside recycling collection service for plastic bottles and food waste begins next week (Monday 22nd November) but not all households have received their new bins. A package of two grey bins for food waste and a white bag for plastic bottles should have been delivered to
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A new electrical store, trading under the world-famous Panasonic brand, is set to open at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre on Saturday 4th December. The shop, occupying mall unit 1b (between Subway and Carphone Warehouse), will be operated by Pana Stores (South West) Limited, bringing the company’ s portfolio to a total of six stores, including one in Clifton, Bristol.
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The former Curves ladies-only Gym at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre looks set to re-open as a financial services office. Brookmaker (GP) Ltd, which appears to be a private subsidiary of Tesco, has applied to South Gloucestershire Council to change the use of mall unit 12 from “Gymnasium (Class D2)” to “Financial and Professional Services (Class A2)”. Curves gym, which
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