The Bristol Evening Post reports that a mum from Bradley Stoke has been banned from an “upmarket” Bristol store for demanding a refund after the wheels fell off a pram she had brought. A duty manager at the Mamas & Papas shop in Eastgate is said to have barred 22-year-old Jessica Gayford for having the cheek to bring back faulty
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A Bradley Stoke Woman has spoken of her “traumatic” experience as she witnessed emergency services responding to a tragic incident at a water park near Cirencester. Clare Bishop says she called the emergency services after a 15-year-old girl was pulled from a lake at Cotswold Water Park on Sunday and stayed on the line for 26 minutes to guide an
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Bristol Water has warned that properties in the north of Bradley Stoke might experience supply interruptions from tonight (Thursday 8th July) as a result of major work on water mains in the area. The roads that might be affected are given as: Grange Close, Orchard Gate, Woodlands Lane, Ashridge Road, Oaktree Crescent and Stanshaws Close The work is said to
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South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) Development Contol (West) Committee has rejected an application by the developers of a proposed new MS therapy centre in Bradley Stoke to allow access to the site from Wheatfield Drive. In making the decision, members of the Committee (which includes two Bradley Stoke Councillors) ignored a recommendation from planning officers that the application should be approved
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Bradley Stoke Radio has finally aired its interview with Britain’s Got Talent finalist Paul Burling, recorded at the Community Festival on Saturday 13th June. The interview is available as a podcast on the Bradley Stoke Community Radio website and may also be heard via the ‘listen again’ feature on BCfm (Community Radio for Bristol).
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The Bristol Evening Post reports that two would-be robbers handed a mobile phone back to their victim during an incident in Bradley Stoke on the night of Monday 21st June. The 23-year-old male victim was walking home along Bowsland Way shortly after midnight when he was threatened by two men near the junction with Campion Drive. The men demanded that
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A Bradley Stoke man is doing well after receiving a kidney from his wife. Taxi driver Anthony Charles and wife Michelle underwent the transplant operations at Southmead Hospital in May. Mr Charles, who previously had to undergo dialysis three times a week, said: “I already feel ten times better than I did before.” Michelle added: “It [the operation] has changed
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The embryonic Bradley Stoke Community Radio has published its first material, in the form of a podcast recorded at the recent Community Festival. Reporters from the organisation, which describes itself as “an exciting new community radio station run entirely by volunteers living in and around the Bradley Stoke area”, were at a number of festival events and even managed to
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The Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) Samba Band, which performed to great acclaim at the recent Bradley Stoke Community Festival (photo), has been invited to join a carnival procession through Broadmead, Bristol, tomorrow (Saturday 19th June) between 12 noon and 4pm. The procession forms part of the St. Paul’s Carnival Unwrapped event, a preview for the St Paul’s Carnival, which
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Bristol Water has issued a warning that hundreds of properties in Bradley Stoke are likely to have their water supplies cut from around 10pm tonight (Thursday 10th June 2010). The move follows the discovery of a leak on a pressure reduction valve in a 450mm water main in Brook Way, just south of its junction with Braydon Avenue. Around 400
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