Bradley Stoke residents should find it easier to speak to a police officer in person following the official opening of a ‘beat post’ at the Willow Brook shopping centre earlier this month. The new office, accessed from the shopping mall via a short passage between the Santander bank agency and Reflections hairdressers, gives police a local base meaning that they
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Local Councillors visited Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) last week to promote Youth Unltd, South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) concessionary fares scheme for young people aged 14 to 18. The Youth Unltd card was introduced by the Council in April 2010 and offers half adult fare for local bus services after 6pm weekdays and all day on weekends and school holidays.
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The Town Council has announced that the Bradley Stoke farmers’ & artisans’ market has changed to the last Friday of every month, starting tomorrow (Friday 28th January 2011). The market was trialled on three Wednesdays in October, November and December last year and organisers have now decided to make it a permanent fixture. Held in the Town Square at the
Continue readingResidents in Bradley Stoke are being asked to be on the look out for a white and ginger cat that went missing on Saturday 22nd January from The Culvert. The owners write: Fred went missing around noon on the 22nd of January 2011. He is a housecat who hardly ever goes out, so we are really worried that he has
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The Willow Brook Centre (WBC) has announced that Bradley Stoke’s new Boots store will open on Wednesday 9th February. The store will stock a wide range of health and beauty products and provide a full prescription dispensing service through its ‘Midnight Pharmacy’, which will remain open until midnight Monday to Saturday and 4pm on Sunday. A promotional leaflet [PDF, 1.2MB],
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Norman Baker MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, was in Bradley Stoke last week as part of a visit to see the the results of Bristol and South Gloucestershire’s Cycle City project. At Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) the Minister saw how schools in South Gloucestershire are encouraging their pupils to cycle to school and witnessed pupils receiving
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On Tuesday 18th January 2011 at about 6pm, a woman was out running in Bradley Stoke – as she approached the pedestrian traffic light controlled crossing on Bradley Stoke Way, running towards the roundabout which meets Savages Wood Road on the left and The Leisure Centre on the right, she came across a group of seven male youths who were
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced the dates and locations for this February half term’s free Holiday Cycling Courses for children. Courses cover Bikeability levels one, two and three – designed to give beginners and improvers the skills needed to take to their bikes with confidence. Locally, the courses will run at Bradley Stoke Community School as follows: Level 1 –
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Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP) is staging a free Family Day at Meadowbrook Primary School on Saturday 29th January, from 12pm to 4pm. Learn about the cultures and faiths of your area through story telling, art workshops, games, refreshments and singing! Further Family Days are scheduled for Filton (Monday 21st February) and Patchway (Thursday 24th February). More info: Family Days
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Retirement housing developer McCarthy & Stone has announced that it has “acquired an interest” in vacant land on Savages Wood, on the corner with Bradley Stoke Way, and is proposing to build 68 apartments on the site. The land, just south of the Bradley Stoke Tesco Extra store, served as a contractor compound during the construction of the Willow Brook
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