The AGM of the Bradley Stoke Bowls Club was held at the Baileys Court Activity Centre on Thursday 22nd October, when some sixty members were welcomed by chair Steve Lee. Prior to events, members stood in silence to respect the memory of Beryl Parsons. The club captain, George Eland, then presented a cheque for £750 to Isobel Gelder, a representative
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An Oxfordshire man (previously living in South Gloucestershire) has been ordered to pay £1,071 in fines and costs after admitting fly tipping waste in Little Stoke. Stephen Wilkes, 25, of Witney, Oxfordshire, appeared before North Avon Magistrates’ Court on Friday 21st August. He pleaded guilty to fly tipping waste and not having a Waste Transfer Note or a Registered Waste
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The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke is gearing up for a fun-filled ‘spooktacular’ to celebrate Halloween. The shopping centre’s Halloween Fun Day event takes place this Wednesday (28th October) between 11am and 3pm. Simply gruesome entertainment will be provided by ‘Lord of the Bins’, aka Bread and Butter Theatre. Gandalf Garbage and Frodo Bin-Baggins, two rather special puppets perched on their very
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A local resident has organised a ‘Workshop on Preventing Climate Change’, to be held at Holy Trinity Church, Broad Croft, Bradley Stoke at 7.30pm on Monday 26th October. Phil Kingston, of Grandparents for a Safe Earth, is inviting members of the public to attend the event, which will focus on the work of 350.org, an international organisation that campaigns to keep fossil fuels
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Members of Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) have been debating a way forward for the mayoral chain, now that it has now reached its maximum capacity for medals (the last one having now been engraved). Officers reported that it is not feasible to merely add more medals in the main body of the chain, as it would make it too
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced that Bradley Stoke is to be the next residential area in the district to have its street lights converted to low-emission LED technology, as part of district-wide measures to reduce street lighting-related energy costs and carbon emissions. LED lights are fast becoming the norm for local authority street lights as they consume about 60 percent
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Volunteers from the local offices of a national banking firm have created several unique pieces of learning and play equipment for a Bradley Stoke pre-school. Each year, Lloyds Banking Group supports its staff to spend a day out of the office volunteering on projects to benefit the community. The scheme is known as ‘A Day to Make a Difference’. The
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Four months after the sexual assault of a young woman at the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, a group of four students from Bradley Stoke Community School have set up a campaign to place more lighting in this area. The student-led campaign addresses the need for more street lights around the nature reserve which currently has minimal lighting during the
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Since widespread civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, refugees have been fleeing the country at an increasing rate. The ongoing Syrian refugee crisis has seen millions of refugees displaced across different parts of the world and it is now estimated that 500,000 Syrian migrants and refugees have entered the EU in 2015. As the crisis worsens, many communities
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Year 6 pupils at Bradley Stoke’s Meadowbrook Primary School are celebrating after winning the ‘School Award’ category in the prestigious British Wildlife Photography Awards 2015. The children’s portfolio of six photographs, taken last June in the town’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, beat all competition from across the UK, including primary and secondary pupils up to age 18. A small
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