The Highways Agency has announced that the M5 motorway will be closed in both directions between junctions 17 (Cribbs Causeway) and 18 (Avonmouth) on Christmas Day. The closure is necessary to allow contractors to demolish Lawrence Weston Bridge, which will be replaced by a new structure in the new year. Diversions via the M4 and M49 will be operation. Read
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A Bradley Stoke boy is to be Bristol City’s matchday mascot for this Saturday’s home game against Reading. Morgan Walker, who will be six in January 2010, is supported by The Jessie May Trust, City’s adopted charity for the 2009/2010 season. Read more: Bristol City FC
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South Gloucestershire police have announced the acquisition of two off-road motorcycles to help combat nuisance scramblers in the district. Police officers at Filton police station have been trained to use the bikes and plan to patrol the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve in Bradley Stoke, where the illegal riding of mopeds, motorcycles and mini-mopeds has been a long-term issue. Read
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Prospective students of Bradley Stoke’s new post-16 (sixth form) centre have aired their views on policies they would like to see enforced when the facility opens in September. Feedback from a ‘post-16 consultation exercise’ conducted amongst year 11 students and staff at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) outlines opinions on: dress code rules for the centre’s social area attendance regulations
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The results of a survey of users of the Jubilee Green play park have been published by the Friends of Jubilee Green volunteer group. 89% of the 55 people polled said they would like access to toilets at the park and 71% said they would visit the park more often if they had permanent access to toilets at the Savages
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Southern Brooks Community Partnership is looking for women from across South Gloucestershire who are willing to become “fashion volunteers” at the annual International Women’s Day event in Bradley Stoke. Aspiring models will need to be available for two practice sessions at the end of February/early March and from 4pm on the day of the event (March 11th). Read more: Southern
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Local Liberal Democrat Councillor Jon Williams has slammed the Conservatives for, he says, wrongly claiming credit over the approval of a new pedestrian crossing on Brook Way. The row follows a campaign by parents of children at Wheatfield Primary School, who said they found it dangerous getting to the school from Saxon Way and other roads on the west side
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Mike Hill, Bishop of Bristol, paid a visit to Baileys Court Primary School on Friday (11th Decemebr). Writing on his blog, the Bishop enthuses about the three Christmas songs that the children sang to him. Read more: Bishop Mike; Baileys Court Primary School
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South Gloucestershire councillor Peter Tyzack has been chosen as the Liberal Democrat’s candidate for the new Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS) parliamentary constituency at next year’s general election. Cllr Tyzack becomes the third Liberal Democrat to be nominated to fight the seat after the resignations of two previous candidates. Emma Bone quit “for family reasons” in 2008, while John Kiely
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Bradley Stoke’s Meadowbrook Primary School is the current ‘School of the Week’ on Bristol’s Star Radio. Writing in the latest newsletter, headteacher Jon Barr thanks Tom and Anna Wheatley for nominating the school. Read more: Star Radio – School of the Week
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