Bradley Stoke Town Council has confirmed that it has installed a number of wooden posts in an attempt to to prevent further access to a site alongside Bradley Way, where a group of travellers recently established an unauthorised encampment. The travellers left the site last Thursday (26th June) and the town council says it has “wasted no time” in taking action,
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A man has been jailed for ten months for the attempted robbery of a couple in Oaktree Crescent, Bradley Stoke, in March. The 19-year-old from Bradley Stoke admitted the offence when he appeared before Bristol Crown Court on 19th June. He was identified after local people responded to an appeal for information issued by the police. He had approached a
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Police are asking the public for help with their enquiries into a day-time burglary in Bradley Stoke yesterday (Wednesday 25th June). The break-in, at a property in Stevens Walk (off Hawkins Crescent), happened sometime between 10.30am and 2pm. The thieves got over a 6ft fence which borders the road and smashed the rear patio door to gain entry. They searched
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The Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve will be hosting a real-life wildlife expedition, searching for and documenting all of the site’s weird and wonderful species on Friday and Saturday 4th/5th July. Families will have the opportunity to become wildlife scientists for the day and discover all the amazing creatures that live here in Bradley Stoke. The event, called BioBlitz, is
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Travellers at an illegal encampment alongside Bradley Stoke Way have today begun their second week of occupation, despite being given 24 hours to leave the site on Tuesday last week. Four caravans and a number of other vehicles moved onto the roadside verge near Primrose Bridge last Monday morning. They were joined by a fifth caravan a few days later.
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The Hilton Bristol hotel team recently spent three days cleaning-up, preparing and painting the children’s playground in Paddock Close, Bradley Stoke. This children’s playground was last refurbished seven years ago and recently had new soft-padded carpet installed around the play equipment by the town council. In partnership with the council, the Hilton Bristol purchased special paint and equipment to rejuvenate
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A local Church has joined forces with a debt advice charity and its local Costa Coffee branch to offer money management skills to people in Bradley Stoke. Bridge Community Church, which meets on Sunday mornings at Bradley Stoke Community School, will be running a free personal finance course, set up by charity Christians Against Poverty (CAP), to provide free help to
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Hundreds of people in the broadband ‘slowspot’ of central Bradley Stoke could soon be able to order new ‘superfast’ services after work began to install a new fibre-enabled telephone cabinet on the corner of Brook Way and Savages Wood Road. Roads served from this cabinet (no. 34) include Crystal Way, Diana Gardens, Kemperleye Way, Penrose Drive, Snowberry Close, The Spinney
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Councillor John Ashe was elected as the new mayor of Bradley Stoke on Wednesday 21st May, and he kindly found some time to answer a few of our questions, so that readers of The Journal could get to know him better. John recalls moving to Bradley Stoke back in 1992, following the birth of his twin boys. He says the
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A local councillor and scores of residents are demanding that action be taken to disperse a traveller encampment that has appeared on the side of a major road in Bradley Stoke. Four caravans and a number of other vehicles were this afternoon occupying part of the wide grass verge on the eastern side of Bradley Stoke Way, just south of
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