Major alterations planned for Aztec West Roundabout, Woodlands Lane junction and Bradley Stoke Way. South Gloucestershire Council and Bristol City Council have opened an informal ‘pre-consultation’ on planned changes to road layouts, speed limits and parking arrangements along the route of the proposed North Fringe to Hengrove Package (NFHP) MetroBus Scheme, which was granted planning permission earlier this year. The
Continue readingMonth: November 2014
Bradley Stoke couple celebrate five years of working together
Local residents Gary and Rachel Wilson are this month celebrating five years working together in their van-based, coffee-making business, Cafe2U. The couple, who have been married since 1999 and lived in Bradley Stoke for the last 15 years, serve high-quality, barista-style, espresso-based coffee, to office workers in ‘non-traditional work locations’ i.e. business and industrial parks, across the region including Aztec
Continue readingIceland to open store at Willow Brook Centre
Frozen food specialist Iceland is to open an outlet at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke. The new Iceland store, which is expected to start trading at the end of February 2015, will be located in the ‘retail terrace’ unit currently occupied by shoe retailer Brantano. Signs on display at the Brantano store, which opened at Willow Brook back in July 2009,
Continue readingLions Club honour for BSCS student Louis
A student at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has been recognised by the local Lions Club for volunteering to help people less fortunate than himself in the local community. A Young Leader in Service Gold Award was presented to Louis Cox by Bradley Stoke Lions President Robin Young and Lion Dr Harmandar Gupta during a Year 11 assembly at the
Continue readingMr Bloom actor Ben Faulks to switch on Willow Brook Christmas lights
Children in Bradley Stoke are in for a real treat when CBeebies’ Mr Bloom, actor Ben Faulks, switches on the Christmas lights at the Willow Brook Centre this Saturday (22nd November). Ben, who is starring as Dick Whittington at the Bristol Hippodrome, will light up the town at 5.30pm. The fun packed day starts at 11am when Santa opens his
Continue readingBradley Stoke in Bloom makeover for Willow Brook town square
An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. The Common East Following on from our last workday at The Common East, our insect hotel has been a real success! It has delighted both young and not so young and, each time we go back, we meet many local children who are all eager to learn about
Continue readingTown’s new £260k skate park expected to be ready next summer
Bradley Stoke Town Council says it is hopeful that a new concrete skate park within the grounds of the leisure centre will be ready for the school summer holidays next year, but probably not in time for the community festival in June, as had originally been planned. The £260k funding for the park has been raised from various sources, including
Continue readingDog waste bins to be emptied twice weekly following persistent complaints
Bradley Stoke Town Council has ordered an increase in the frequency of emptying of ten of the 33 remaining dog waste bins in the town, following scores of complaints about bins regularly overflowing after cost-saving measures were introduced earlier this year. The number of dog waste bins in the town was reduced from 57 to 33 in the first weeks
Continue readingEveryone welcome at town’s first Remembrance parade and ceremony
The 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group and the Willow Brook Centre are inviting local residents to attend a Remembrance Day ceremony in the town square at 10.45am tomorrow morning (Sunday 9th November). The ceremony will be preceded by a parade that leaves the Jubilee Centre at 10.30am, marching along Savages Wood Road to the Willow Brook Centre. Stoke Gifford’s traditional
Continue readingBradley Stoke Community School students visit World War One battlefields
Two Year 9 students and a teacher from Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) have undertaken a four day trip to First World War (WW1) battlefield and cemetery sites as part of a government-funded initiative to commemorate the centenary of the 1914-19 conflict. Under the scheme, every state funded secondary school in England is being given the opportunity to send two
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