Local police have named Bradley Stoke’s new Council-funded Police Community Support Officer as Paul Baxter, who currently works on the Filton beat. PCSO Baxter, who has been with the force for two years, will join the Bradley Stoke beat team in September. Bradley Stoke is one of five neighbourhood police teams being strengthened by the addition of a PCSO funded
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A road traffic accident on the Winterbourne Road in the early hours of Saturday morning (22nd August) has left two men dead and three others injured. The accident happened at the junction of Winterbourne Road and Old Gloucester Road, close to where the Winterbourne Road passes under the M4 motorway. Avon and Somerset Police say a Mercedes collided with a
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The Bristol Evening Post reports today that Bradley Stoke Town Councillor Jon Williams (Lib Dem) has been found guilty of misconduct by the Standards Committee of South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). The ruling follows an incident at a meeting of the Town Council on 3rd December 2008, in which Cllr Williams called his fellow (predominantly Conservative) Councillors “a bunch of w*****s”
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The local group of the Freecycle Network is the latest organisation to feature in The Journal’s Community Showcase section. The worldwide Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It’s a grassroots movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Freecycle groups match people who have things they want
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The area behind Tesco Express, Baileys Court, is the latest hotspot for anti-social behaviour in Bradley Stoke, according to local police and residents. The problem has been agreed as a police priority after a worker from one of the businesses in the block behind Tesco Express raised the matter at a recent Bradley Stoke Safer & Stronger Community Group meeting.
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Bradley Stoke’s first-ever cycle shop is to open on Saturday (15th August) at the Willow Brook Centre. The Giant Cycles store is a franchise of the Taiwanese company ‘Giant‘, which claims to be the largest manufacturer of bikes in the world. The store will be operated by ZeroG Cycles of Bedminster, who have three other outlets in the Bristol area.
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The Friends of Jubilee Green group have announced that Bradley Stoke’s new adventure play park at Savages Wood Road is now fully open. The park had been temporarily closed for a few days after the official opening on Friday 24th July “to allow completion of the site”. Information on the Friends website says: “Following the incredibly popular opening of the
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Staff at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre are organising two charity fund raising events this coming weekend. On Friday (14th August) at 7:30pm, a Pub Quiz is being held in the cafe area of the centre. Entry is £2 per person and organisers are promising fantastic prizes and great deals at the bar. A summer fete is the attraction on Sunday
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An attack which saw a group of youths force a snake to bite their 14-year-old victim in Bradley Stoke has hit the national headlines. The story was broken by the Bristol Evening Post (BEP) at 10am on Sunday. Their report, titled “Teen attacked by Bristol gang ‘brandishing snake’“, said the incident had occurred in Merryweather Close, Bradley Stoke, on Saturday
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Cable company Virgin Media is laying new fibre optic broadband cable in Bradley Stoke but it seems that homeowners are unlikely to benefit from the work. Contractors have been digging trenches to take a spur off the Virgin Media network from a point on Bradley Stoke Way close to the pedestrian crossing south of the Savages Wood Roundabout. The new
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