The Bradley Stoke Community Festival six-a-side Cricket Tournament, held at Baileys Court on Sunday (14th June), saw Holy Trinity defeat the Indian 1st X1 in the final by 43 runs to 41 with just one ball remaining. A total of five teams contested the tournament, with Mayor’s Maidens, Bradley Bruisers and hosts Bradley Stoke Cricket Club completing the starting line-up.
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Scores of local bikers and skaters took part in the annual Skate Park Competition held on Sunday (14th June) by the Leisure Centre. The competition, organised by Southern Brooks Community Partnership, formed part of the Bradley Stoke Community Festival. Local bike store Crucial BMX sponsored the event and provided the judges. More Skate Park Competition photos: album; slideshow
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A record field of 334 runners contested the 2009 Bradley Stoke 10k Run in warm conditions on the final day of the town’s three-day Community Festival. The race started and finished at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road and featured ‘chip’ timing for the first time in its short history. Bradley Stoke Mayor Mark Forsyth got the race under
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Fine weather brought out the crowds once more for the main day of Bradley Stoke’s annual Community Festival at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. The action got underway at 11am when the first matches in the Festival of Football kicked off on the upper pitch. Youngsters from local schools battled it out in a competition where marks for
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The 2009 Bradley Stoke Community Festival gets underway at 9am today (Friday) with a coffee morning, table top sale and children’s entertainment at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. The annual Picnic in the Park runs from 11am to 2pm – organised by South Glos Children & Young People Information Service – with entertainment from Professor Panic’s Circus, face
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Entries for the Bradley Stoke 10k Run, which forms part of next weekend’s Community Festival, have already broken the 300 mark, leaving just 40 places available before the race’s safety limit is reached. Last year’s race had a limit of 300, with 290 runners taking part on the day. With just less than a week to go before this year’s
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The 2009 Bradley Stoke Community Festival is to feature local bands and dance groups at the Jubilee Centre Arena on Saturday 13th June. Performances will start at 12:30pm and run through to a later than usual closing time of 8:30pm. Musical styles on offer range from samba through Afro beat and jazz to 50s and 60s covers, while dance groups
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The third running of Bradley Stoke’s Festival Run, organised by Sole Sisters Running Club, took place today (Sunday 8th June) in warm and sunny conditions over a 10km course around the town’s roads and conservation area trails. Bradley Stoke Mayor Robert Jones got the race under way at 10am from a point on Bradley Stoke Way south of the Leisure
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Warm and sunny weather saw crowds flock to the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road for the main day of Bradley Stoke’s Community Festival 2008. The day got underway at 11am with a demonstration of gamegoers’ dogs, falcons and ferrets and continued throughout the afternoon with events alternating between arena and stage. Highlights of the day included performances by Queen
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Youngsters in Bradley Stoke are eagerly looking forward to this coming Saturday’s (7th June) Skate Park Competition organised by Southern Brooks Community Partnership. The event, which gets underway at 2pm in the skate park by the Leisure Centre, Fiddlers Wood Lane [map], forms part of the Bradley Stoke Community Festival. Separate contests will be held for BMX bikes, skateboards, in-line
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