Last Saturday’s Community Showcase event in the Town Square has been hailed a success by organisers and stall holders. The event, now in its second year, saw over 30 local businesses and organisations promoting their activities to shoppers at Bradley Stoke’s popular Willow Brook shopping centre. The event got underway at 11am with a colourful flag-waving display from the South
Continue readingA group of finance managers from across the country are the latest to have climbed Kilimanjaro in a bid to raise funds for charity. A team from the international company Bibby Line Group undertook this amazing challenge in Tanzania this month to raise money for various causes. Leanne Green and Lee Trego, from Bibby Financial Services in Bradley Stoke, were
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Entries have opened for the 2011 Outstanding Women’s Awards, organised by Southern Brooks Community Partnership. Awards will be made in the following categories: Community Award Personal Achievement Award Young Woman Award Winners will receive a certificate and a prize. Persons nominated must live in: Bradley Stoke, Patchway, Filton or Stoke Gifford For nomination forms and further information please visit your
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Budget chain Poundstretcher has been revealed as the “value retailer” that will be opening soon in Bradley Stoke’s new town centre. A press release put out today (Friday) by the Willow Brook Centre says the “UK’s original value store” is due to open on Friday 10th December. The Journal understands that the firm will be occupying unit 6 of the
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A Bradley Stoke man has been jailed for nearly three years after exposing himself via a webcam to what he thought was a 13-year-old girl. In fact, his obscene act was being watched by Australian police officers, who had posed as children on a social networking site. A raid on the 42-year-old’s Lavender Way home uncovered 3,000 child pornography images
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The second annual Community Showcase event for the Severnvale locality is being staged in Bradley Stoke’s Town Square at the Willow Brook Centre tomorrow (Saturday 2nd October). Organised by Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP), the event gives the local community an opportunity to meet local groups and businesses as well as representatives from the local police, churches and schools. Up
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