Police have arrested two 17-year-old men in connection with a series of car and property blazes in Bradley Stoke during the early hours of Friday morning. The incidents began at 1:40am when a wheelie bin was set on fire in Saxon Way. Within the next hour three cars were set alight and other smaller fires started. Police declined to issue
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Taylors Estate Agents look set to open an office at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre, according to an announcement on the centre’s official website. The company, currently located at Bradley Pavilions in Pear Tree Road, says: We are looking forward to moving from our existing premises in Bradley Pavilions to the fantastic new Willow Brook Centre. In addition to offering
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Two teams from a Bradley Stoke street dance group achieved top placings in the recent 2009 UDO British Street Dance Championships at Brean Sands. Fahrenheit Dance Studio Bristol’s BS1 team (formerly Extreme) came 2nd in the under 18 intermediate class, while the group’s Escape team finished 5th in the under 14 intermediate category. The studio’s DZire (under 18 newcomer) and
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Mayor Robert Jones has demanded an apology from South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) Chairman Ian Knight, who has singled out Bradley Stoke as a example of poor town planning. The put-down was reported in yesterday’s Bristol Evening Post, in a article about the proposed £2.5 billion Ashton Park development in South Bristol. The article quotes Mr Knight as saying:
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Bradley Stoke’s Baileys Court Activity Centre is tonight (Tuesday 3rd March) hosting a meeting of South Gloucestershire Council’s Southern Brooks Area Forum (7pm start). The Council sees the Area Fourm as an opportunity “to consider decisions at a local level and to consider local views in the decision-making process”. The agenda promises an update on the Greater Bristol Cycling City
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Letters detailing offers of secondary school places for admission in September 2009 have been posted today (using 2nd class mail) by South Gloucestershire Council. Parents/carers who applied online will be able to view the results on the Internet from “late afternoon” today, provided they can remember their username and password (chosen at the time of application). Bradley Stoke Community School
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Hundreds of defective shopping trolleys at the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke are due to be replaced over the weekend, according to Customer Services Manager Matt Hill. Wheel locking devices on the faulty ‘shallow’ trolleys have been spontaneously seizing up ever since they were introduced when the new store opened last October. Over the last week, most of the
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Continuity of youth work in Bradley Stoke looks assured after Town Councillors voted unanimously to fund Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP) for six months beyond 31st March, when the organisation’s current contract is due to expire. A recent meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council’s (BSTC’s) Finance & Leisure (F&L) Committee saw Councillors minded to offer only a two month extension,
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Planners at South Gloucestershire Council have gven the go ahead for a second temporary classroom block to be erected at Bradley Stoke’s Baileys Court Primary School. The planning application, lodged in December 2008, is for an Elliot modular building configured to host two classrooms. The new block will be located on a section of playing field on the Baileys Court
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A special meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) is to take place this Wednesday (25th February) at 8:30pm in the Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road. The meeting has been called to decide how youth work is to be delivered in the town from 1st April, after it was revealed that South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) is unlikley to be able to
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