The Bradley Stoke Journal

Happy Christmas to all our readers from The Journal team!

Thanks for your continued support in 2011, which has seen our annual readership exceed ONE MILLION pageviews for the first time*.

We’ll continue to update the website over the festive period, so don’t forget to check back soon for the latest stories and information from Bradley Stoke’s premier news source.

If you’re looking for information about opening hours at the Willow Brook Centre and Tesco Extra, check out our Holiday Opening Hours page.

The page also lists the opening times for the two Bradley Stoke Tesco Express Stores, Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, Bradley Stoke Library, together with information about refuse collections and bus services over the festive period.

Tesco Extra and the two Bradley Stoke Tesco Express stores are closed on Christmas Day but if you find you’ve forgotten an essential component of your Christmas dinner, you can head over to the Costcutter or Spar convenience stores in Patchway (opening times in the Patchway Journal).

Details of Christmas church services today and tomorrow can be found in our What’s On guide, Bradley Stoke’s most comprehensive guide to local events. For more information about the venues, follow the links on our Faith and Religion page.

* based on figures from our raw website logs.

Photo: THAT spectacularly-decorated house in Orpheus Avenue, Little Stoke, where a charity collection has so far raised £510 for the Jessie May Trust.

More: Meet the people behind the Little Stoke Christmas lights! »

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The Willow Brook Centre’s new club for local mums stages its next meeting on Tuesday 26th July between 9.30am and 11.30am at the Bradley Stoke Harvester restaurant.

The club was launched last month when 85 mums enjoyed a free hot drink and received advice from Boots, the Willow Brook Clinic and Brantano. Entertainment for the kids included an art & craft workshop and a puppet workshop.

This month Explore Learning is coming along with a selection of educational toys and will be offering half price membership to Mummy’s Morning card holders.

Phoenix Dental practice will be giving away free tooth paste samples, and the Extra Midwifery service will be on hand to talk to mums about getting all the support they need in their local area.

Representatives from Boots will be back with all the latest on their beauty and perfume ranges.

Continue reading to find out how to join the club »

The Willow Brook Centre is launching a new club especially for local mums.

The ‘Mummy’s Breakfast Morning’ club will be held in the Harvester restaurant on the last Tuesday of each month, starting on Tuesday 28th June 2011.

Membership is free and mums can register by emailing their contact details to mummys@willowbrookcentre.co.uk

It’s a great opportunity to catch up with other mums and their children at the Harvester restaurant and enjoy free hot drinks between 9:30am and 11:30am. There will be free activities for the children too, and on 28th June there will be an art & craft workshop and a puppet workshop.

For the Mums, a Boots Beauty Advisor will be offering advice on makeup and skin care and at 10am chiropractors from the Willow Brook Centre will discuss musculoskeletal health and offer advice and a free spinal check at the clinic. As a special treat for the launch event there will be a goody bag too. Registration will also be available on the day.

It’s hosted by Harvester, but other Willow Brook Centre shops and businesses are also supporting the club and the free membership card will entitle mums to special offers and discounts at selected outlets.

Read on for details of more stores offering discounts to members of the Mums’ Breakfast Club »

Happy New Year to all our readers from the Journal team!

We hope you all enjoyed the Christmas and New Year festivities. If you’re looking to catch up on some shopping or are wondering when your next bin collection will be after the holiday period, take a look at our Christmas and New Year Opening Times page for all the latest information.

And if you’re serious about those New Year’s resolutions, you might need to check out our Town Guide, where you’ll find everything you need to know about local Slimming Clubs, Gyms & Health Clubs!

We’ve just uploaded the final photo album of 2010 to our PicasaWeb gallery and it’s interesting to see that last year ended as it started, with heavy snowfall!

Sadly, we haven’t had time to produce our traditional review of the year article this time round, but just take a moment to browse through the 48 albums of photos from 2010 and you’ll appreciate just how much has happened in Bradley Stoke over the last year.

The Journal’s readership grew by a massive 250% last year and we look forward to continuing to bring you the town’s most comprehensive news and photo coverage in 2011.

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We’re always on the lookout for people to join the Journal team, so please get in touch if you would like to contribute to Bradley Stoke’s number one independent, locally-produced, news website.

Happy Christmas to all our readers from The Journal team!

We hope to update the website as normal over the holiday period, so don’t forget to check back soon for all the latest Bradley Stoke news, including our Review of 2009.

Our Bradley Stoke Christmas 2009 page has all the information you need to enjoy the Christmas and New Year break, including:

• Opening times of Tesco Extra, Tesco Express, Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre and Bradley Stoke Library
• Opening times of shops and ice skating at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway
• South Gloucestershire Council rubbish and recycling collection schedule

Other useful links for the festive break:

• Bradley Stoke What’s On Guide
• Bradley Stoke Faith and Religion