A recruitment centre for jobs at Bradley Stoke’s new Tesco Extra store has opened for business in the car park of the new development in Savages Wood Road. The centre, formed of two Portakabin-style units, is situated just off the main public access road that leads to the existing Tesco store on the site, in the new section of car
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Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre is staging a free swimming session this Sunday (24th August) to celebrate the handing over of the Olympic Games to London for 2012. The free session runs from 4pm to 6pm and forms part of a series of events organised by South Gloucestershire Council, timed to coincide with the end of the closing ceremony of the
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Bradley Stoke’s first-ever dental practice remains on track to open early next year in the town’s new Willow Brook Centre. Residents seeking treatment currently have to travel to Patchway, Stoke Gifford, Winterbourne, or Filton to find an NHS dentist, but from April 2009 a two surgery practice will be available in Bradley Stoke’s new town centre. South Gloucestershire Primary Care
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The Neighbourhood Policing Team in Bradley Stoke has announced a clampdown on the illegal riding of mopeds, motorcycles and mini-mopeds in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve. The move follows complaints about the nuisance from families, dog walkers and people living nearby. Signs positioned at entrances to the reserve, which have been in place for many years, clearly state that
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The helicopter of the Western Counties Air Operations Unit was seen hovering over Bradley Stoke’s new town centre at around 9pm on Monday night, supported by five police vehicles on the ground. A Journal reporter saw a man being detained by Police officers in the car park of the Tesco store, while other officers (supported by a dog handler) searched
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A team of dancers from Bradley Stoke has clinched first prize in their category at the recent United Dance Organisation’s (UDO’s) World Street Dance Championships in Blackpool. Fahrenheit Dance Studio’s ‘Escape’ troop was victorious in the under-14s newcomers category, contested by a total of 14 teams from around the globe. Fahrenheit’s Miraille Dehaney, who trains three teams of dancers every
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Tesco has submitted a planning application which would see the number of ground floor units in the new shopping mall at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre increased from ten to fifteen. The proposed changes are to be achieved by sub-division and reconfiguration of the layout proposed in the original plans. The company claims that the amendments will “offer greater opportunities
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The first consignment of the sand that will form Bradley Stoke’s experimental “beach” has been deposited on the Jubilee Green in Savages Wood Road. The beach will be present for the month of August and is intended to stimulate discussion as to whether a “sand feature” might be incorporated into the Beacon Playground that is to be built on the
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First Group has announced changes to the 73 service, which links Cribbs Causeway to the City Centre via Bradley Stoke. The timings along certain journeys have been altered by 1-2 minutes to provide a more reliable service. The changes are said to be based on a new satellite tracking system introduced earlier this year which tracks actual journey times. A
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Local residents are being given the opportunity to scrutinise the financial dealings of Bradley Stoke Town Council. Any person interested has the opportunity to inspect and make copies of the Annual Return and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers and receipts etc. relating to them. The documents are open to public scrutiny from 20th July 2008 to 14th August 2008.
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