The Harvester chain is to set to open a restaurant at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. An eagle-eyed Journal reader spotted notices in the windows of Town Square units 5, 6 & 7 this morning, which show that Mitchells & Butlers (the owning company) has applied to South Gloucestershire Council for an alcohol and entertainment licence on behalf of the
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A free 18- week IT and literacy course for adults begins on Wednesday 8th September at Bradley Stoke Library. Participants will: Gain skills needed for life and work Gain an up to date qualification Move on to further courses Learn how to use a computer The course is aimed at people returning to work. Seesions run from 9:30 – 12.:30
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A charity looking to build an MS therapy centre and respite care facility on land adjacent to Wheatfield Primary School has won its appeal against South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) decision to refuse planning permission. Permission to build the therapy centre was granted in November 2009, subject to a condition that the site be accessed exclusively from Bradley Stoke Way –
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An unnamed store at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre has vetoed the Town Council’s plan to establish a monthly farmers’ market in the Town Square. July’s meeting of Full Council had been told that Council staff were keen to set up a regular farmers’ and artisans’ market in the Town Square and that initial discussions with the Willow Brook
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Two young people from Bradley Stoke have made the last 16 in a competition to find ‘Bristol’s next top model’. An 18-year-old woman [name withheld] and Lee Matthews, 21, were chosen from 40 semi-finalists when they took to the catwalk at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway. The two will now be treated to their own photo shoot before taking part in
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Construction of the new Post-16 (Sixth Form) Centre at Bradley Stoke Community School is nearing completion and the facility is due to open its doors to students for the first time at 8:30am on Thursday 2nd September. Governors of the school were recently given a tour of the new building and Cllr Jon Williams has kindly provided some exclusive photos
Continue readingBradley Stoke Town Councillors visited Westminster on Wednesday to step up the campaign for faster broadband connections in the Town. Town Mayor Cllr Ben Walker and Councillors John Ashe, Brian Hopkinson, Robert Jones and Sarah Pomfret attended a meeting at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport with Communications Minister Ed Vaizey MP. The meeting, which was organised by newly
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A charity Orienteering Challenge, suitable for families and accompanied children, is to be held next weekend in Bradley Stoke. The event, which takes place in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve between 11am and 4pm on Sunday 22nd August, will raise funds for the children’s charity Barnardo’s. Families, teams and individuals can have a go at a timed circuit (with
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Bradley Stoke’s newly-elected Conservative MP Jack Lopresti has vowed to make the fight to secure faster, more reliable, broadband coverage across his constituency one of his top priorities. The pledge came after Mr Lopresti organised a meeting with the new Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey MP, to highlight the long-standing issues with broadband connections in the Bradley Stoke area. As a
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The newly-opened Simpson’s Fish & Chips shop at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre could be swamped by eager customers this Friday as a result of a “free fish & chips” offer being advertised on a local radio station. Heart West Country (formerly GWR FM and Heart Bristol) is currently running a “competition” whereby anyone sending a text message to a
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