Would you like to thank a volunteer who has gone the extra mile? Nominations are now open for the South Gloucestershire Council Chair’s Community Awards 2018. The annual awards recognise and celebrate the valuable contribution local unpaid volunteers and community groups make to life in South Gloucestershire. The next celebration of community work and volunteering takes place in March and
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Ex-BSCS student now has former head as ‘boss’
One of the first cohort of students to attend Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has found that she now has her former headteacher as ‘boss’ after taking on her first full-time job since completing her A-levels at the school. Amelia Newport, who started at BSCS in 2005 and progressed to be amongst the first entrants into the school’s brand new
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Vauxhall drives in to sponsor BSYFC Girls
The U10 and U12 girls’ teams at Bradley Stoke Youth FC (BSYFC) have received sponsored match kit for their first season together in the Bristol Girls’ League (BGL), thanks to the generosity of local car dealership Drive Vauxhall Bristol North. The girls were presented with their new kit at a photoshoot where they posed alongside a badged-up BSYFC-branded Vauxhall Crossland
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Sixth-former’s initiative will bring Christmas joy to underprivileged children
More than forty underprivileged children in overseas countries affected by war, poverty, natural disaster, famine or disease will soon receive a gift-wrapped package of toys and useful items thanks to the efforts of a Bradley Stoke sixth former. Ellie Harriss, 16, a Post-16 student at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), originally aimed to collect donations to fill 20 shoeboxes for
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Bradley Stoke school welcomes its first four-legged member of staff!
Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), which includes primary and secondary education levels, has welcomed a dog into the school setting. At five-and-a-half months old, Wally is just a puppy, but he is gradually being trained to interact with pupils who may benefit from the therapeutic effects of interacting with dogs. The idea to have a school dog came about as
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Disappointment at Meadowbrook Ofsted verdict
Meadowbrook Primary School is disappointed with the result of a recent Ofsted Inspection which has judged that the school “requires improvement”. The school was inspected in October and was judged as “good” in only two of the five areas. The school was also judged as “requires improvement” in the last inspection in March 2014. However, the recent judgement is based
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Stoke Gifford By-Pass opens to ALL traffic
The long-awaited Stoke Gifford By-Pass, officially known as the Stoke Gifford Transport Link (SGTL), was opened to general traffic earlier today (Monday 18th December). It provides a much more direct link between Bradley Stoke and Junction 1 of the M32 at Hambrook, avoiding the need to travel through the main part of Stoke Gifford or along the current alternative route via
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Ticket machine issues set to delay Bradley Stoke MetroBus start date
There’s no official date for the start of services, so Journal editor Stephen Horton is once again left to speculate… As I write this, more than 800 days after MetroBus construction work first started in Bradley Stoke, we seem to have finally arrived at the point when all the new sections of bus lane are complete and ready for service.
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Bradley Stoke Christmas lights raise funds for hospice rebuild
The owners of a house in Watch Elm Close, Bradley Stoke, are hoping their extravagant Christmas lights display will raise more than £2,000 towards the St Peter’s Hospice ‘Room to Care’ appeal. Mike Checkley and Terry James have decorated the outside of their home with a spectacular light show that incorporates around 25,000 individual bulbs. The display has grown from
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Work starts on new helibase at Almondsbury
Work is now under way to build a new air operations base for the air ambulance and police helicopter on a green belt site near the Almondsbury Interchange. The new helibase will serve the needs of the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) and National Police Air Service (NPAS), whose helicopters are currently based at a site on the former
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