The Bristol Evening Post reports that a Bradley Stoke man has been given a 14 month jail sentence for stealing funds from a local pre-school. Andrew Sheppard, of Chequers Court, stole more than £12,000 from Flying Start Pre-School, which was based at the Community Pavilion on Patchway Common. Bristol Crown Court heard that the money was used to settle gambling
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After some seven years of being away from Bradley Stoke, my wife and I returned recently and stopped for lunch at The Three Brooks public house. Imagine our shock as we approached the pub to be greeted by this vast grey box dominating the area. In fact we first thought that the pub had been demolished to make way for
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A team of students from Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has made it through to the final of the British Schools Karting Championships (BSKC) taking place this weekend in Milton Keynes. The team of three Year 10 boys (Sam Morgan, Liam Williams and George Malin) entered the competition back in January, when they competed in the local semi-final at Team
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The annual Bradley Stoke Fireworks Display is to remain at the Jubilee Centre in 2011, despite concerns over crowd safety being raised following last year’s event. Cllr Mark Forsyth, Senior Health and Safety Officer for last year’s display, had warned that the event had “become too successful for its own good” and a meeting was arranged between the firework company,
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South Gloucestershire Liberal Democrats fired the opening shots in the 2011 Local Election campaign when they launched their ‘Action for our Area’ manifesto in Bradley Stoke’s Town Square on Saturday morning. Local MPs Steve Webb and Don Foster joined local candidates and activists to promote the document that promises to “create a Council that works for you … not for
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The Mayor of Bradley Stoke has appealed to football fans in the town to get behind their local team as they prepare for the final of the Gloucestershire Football Association (GFA) Intermediate Cup. The Bradley Stoke Town Football Club (BSTFC) 1st Team, who normally play their home games at the Town Council’s Jubilee Centre, came from behind to beat De
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An after-school and holiday scheme in Bradley Stoke has been rated “good” by an Ofsted inspector, who visited the child care provider in November last year. Kids Klub, based at the Holy Trinity Church and Primary School complex in Broad Croft, has a capacity for 57 children in its after-school scheme and 52 children during school holidays. There are currently
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Two young children have been found dead after a serious house fire in Merryweather Close in the early hours of this morning (Saturday). Firefighters called to the scene at around 6:30am report finding a “very severe” fire on the first floor and roof space of an end-of-terrace three bedroom property in the cul-de-sac off Brook Way. An Avon Fire &
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A group of students at Bradley Stoke Community School have been staging a campaign to “raise awareness” of the rise in university tuition fees. Year 10 students Georgina Jones, Jess Hicks, Abbie Head and Jess Morgan have been running a ‘Fight the Fees’ campaign as part of their Citizenship studies. The girls explained to The Journal: “In our Citizenship lessons
Continue readingMegan & Grace Elder are 4-year-olds doing a six mile bike ride in three stages by riding to and from their nursery (Leapfrog in Bradley Stoke). They have completed the first two miles and Thursday and Friday they will complete the final stages of their task. This is all in aid of Red Nose Day 2011, so any help for
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