Tesco Extra at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke is launching its F&F Spring/Summer 2013 range by hosting a charity fashion show on Saturday 13th April. Their full range of stylish and affordable clothes will be modelled by Tesco staff and their families – babies, toddlers, teenagers and adults – during two catwalk shows at 11am and 2pm. The
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A local hairstylist has reached the finals of a prestigious national hairdressing competition, the L’Oréal Colour Trophy 2013. Jodie Austen, 23, a stylist at the Alan Bendrey & Co salon at Aztec West, has been awarded one of only 35 places as a L’Oréal Colour Trophy Young Colourist finalist. To gain a place in the live final, Jodie submitted a
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Saturday afternoon saw some fantastic netball on show between the Bradley Stoke Netball Club First Team and Roman Glass in a hard fought game where Bradley Stoke only had seven players. The Romans showed why they were top and took control in a game that ended 39-50 to the favourites. In the first quarter, it was Bradley Stoke who started
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A last minute agreement between Bradley Stoke Town Council and North Bristol NHS Trust should mean that weekly midwife classes are able to continue in the town for the next three years but mums with young babies will in future have to travel out of town to access baby clinics run by health visitors. The town council has been providing
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Having recently nearly been run over along with my pregnant girlfriend, I am motivated to post here to see if others have also had a near miss. I was waiting with my girlfriend at the crossing at about 7:30pm (opposite side to Tesco), I pressed the button, and the usual amber red sequence happened. Genuinely, there were no cars in
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A local primary school pupil has been signed by Bristol City FC’s Academy team after being spotted by a scout while playing for Bradley Stoke Youth FC (BSYFC). Will Ferguson, 8, who attends Bowsland Green Primary School, has been signed as a goalkeeper for the Academy’s Under-9s team after being coached for three years at BSYFC. First spotted by a
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The number of car parking spaces available to staff and patients at Bradley Stoke Surgery could be significantly reduced after Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) announced it is exploring ways of reserving spaces for users of the adjacent Brook Way Activity Centre. According to a report presented to this month’s Full Council meeting, 23 of the 48 spaces at the
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A Bradley Stoke mum is preparing to take to the catwalk at The Mall’s prestigious Bristol Fashion Week (BFW) event this week after winning a competition to become a ‘makeover model’. Ceri Wakefield (pictured above), one of five lucky winners from around the south-west and Wales, was recently treated to a personal shopping and styling session with TV stylist Mark
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Sunday morning saw a tense game between reigning champions St George Veterans and Bradley Stoke Town Veterans, a hard fought game that ended up with the favourites winning 4-1. Bradley Stoke, who travelled to St George for the game, were missing the pace of Adam Sykes as he is out with a back injury. Early on in the game a
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Bradley Stoke’s Meadowbrook Primary School is to install a number of prefabricated classrooms to enable it to accommodate an increased entry of reception class pupils in each of the next two academic years. The school’s governors have agreed to accommodate an additional 30 children in 2013/14 and 2014/15, after being approached by South Gloucestershire Council, which needs to cope with
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