Live music, children’s entertainers, fairground rides and Santa’s grotto will greet shoppers at the live turn-on of the Willow Brook Centre’s Christmas lights. The festivities will begin at midday on Saturday 18th November, with the big switch-on happening at 5pm. A Robbie Williams tribute act will entertain the crowds during the afternoon; there will also be music in the mall
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Merry Christmas to all our readers from the Journal team! Thanks for your continued support in 2016, which has seen our highly-acclaimed monthly magazine go from strength to strength, increasing the average number of pages printed per month by nine percent. Thanks also to all our advertisers, contributors and deliverers – we couldn’t have done it without you! Look out for our
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Two charities stand to benefit to the tune of several hundred pounds from an extravagant Christmas lights display on a house in Watch Elm Close, Bradley Stoke (BS32 8AN; map). Mike Checkley and Terry James have decorated the outside of their home with forty-four sets of lights, incorporating a total of around 17,000 individual bulbs, and are inviting people who
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Santa and his running elves (courtesy of North Bristol Running Group) will be hitting the streets of Bradley Stoke on 20th and 21st December 2016. You are reading an old post. For news about this year’s Santa sleigh rounds in the Stokes, visit the Christmas Events page on this website. They will be collecting for an hour in the town square at
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Brother and sister Callum and Chloe Cockle had a thrilling start to Christmas when they switched on the lights at Willow Brook Centre on Saturday 19th November. Callum (9) and Chloe (7), from Southmead, won a competition on the Willow Brook Centre’s Facebook page to be chosen to turn on the Christmas lights alongside Santa Claus at a fun day
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Mama Bear’s Day Nursery and Pre-school in Bradley Stoke is hosting its first-ever Christmas market on Saturday 3rd December to raise money for a local organisation that supports one of its young children who has special needs. The nursery is throwing open its doors to stallholders selling jewellery, Christmas decorations, prints, crafts and ceramics in aid of Thornbury-based charity Jigsaw,
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Families are invited to join the fun at the Willow Brook Centre on Saturday 19th November when Santa turns on the Christmas lights at 5pm. The festivities start at noon when Bradley Stoke Radio celebrates with an afternoon of live music from local artists and bands in the town square. Inside Willow Brook, there will be lots of great free entertainment for
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Merry Christmas to all our readers from The Journal team! Thanks for your continued support in 2015, which has seen our highly-acclaimed monthly magazine go from strength to strength, once again increasing both the average number of pages printed and the number of copies distributed (currently 10,200 every month). Thanks also to all our advertisers, contributors and deliverers – we couldn’t have
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Tesco is inviting everyone to get into the festive spirit with a Christmas market at its Bradley Stoke Extra store. The retailer is recruiting more Christmas helpers than ever this year, and has asked communities and some of their local suppliers to join them preparing for the festive season. On Saturday 19th December, between 11am and 3pm, customers will walk
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Pupils at Bradley Stoke’s newest primary school, the ‘primary phase’ at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), have celebrated the end of their inaugural term with a traditional nativity performance. Pupils treated their audience to a selection of songs and beautifully read lines, with an array of shepherds, angels, a baby Jesus and, of course, a star! The school’s membership of
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