Next Friday (18th November) is BBC Children in Need Day and here at The Journal we’ve heard of a couple of events that are happening in the build up to the big day. Greggs the Bakers in the Town Square at the Willow Brook Centre are holding a fundraising event tomorrow (Saturday 12th November) from 11am. They are planning a
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has revealed details of the interim youth provision measures it has put in place following its decision, jointly with Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC), to close the Brook Way Youth Club at the end of last month. Youth workers will be going out onto the streets on three nights a week to engage with young people
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[Advertising Feature] The Swan Hotel in Almondsbury is now under new management and will be staging a relaunch party on Friday 18th November from 6pm to celebrate. With a totally new and different concept to what was previously there, the new management team at The Swan is hoping local residents will come and join them to see what is going
Continue readingMotorists and pedestrians accessing the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke yesterday afternoon had to negotiate roads plastered with mud and littered with rocks. The debris, thought to have been deposited by lorries leaving the McCarthy & Stone construction site adjacent to the Three Brooks pub, covered the exit road from the Tesco filling station, the access road between the
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The Bradley Stoke police team has reported a surge in people volunteering to become members of the town’s Community Speed Watch initiative, with the number involved set to double by the end of the month. The team was formed with the minimum required six members in July, following several years of appeals for people to come forward (we reported in
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Local MP Jack Lopresti made an appearance at the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke last week to witness a special presentation to children from three local schools, marking the success of the supermarket group’s Vouchers for Schools & Clubs scheme. Two pupils and a member of staff from each of Bowsland Green Primary School, Wheatfield Primary School and Bradley
Continue readingPeter Chivers, chief executive of the National Composites Centre (NCC) at the Bristol and Bath Science Park im Emersons Green, is to speak at a business breakfast function being held next week in Bradley Stoke. The event will shine a light on activity in the South West’s manufacturing sector, and the role played by centres of excellence such as the
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A record crowd of nearly 8,000 surrounded the Jubilee Centre, Bradley Stoke, last night for the Bradley Stoke Town Council Firework Display. Now in its ninth year, the annual display has grown to be one of the largest in the Bristol area and the public were delighted with a 20 minute display described by many as “better than ever”. No
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Police are appealing to the public for their help to locate a vulnerable woman who is missing from the Bradley Stoke area. Deborah Ohioze James, who is also known as Deborah Folake Salko, is 18 years old and has not been seen since 1pm today (Saturday 5th November). She was last seen at her home in Bradley Stoke. Police are
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Bradley Stoke Town Football Club is fielding a record four teams today (Saturday 5th November) following the official launch earlier this week of a new Bradley Stoke Town ‘B’ team. Club Secretary Nick Potter said: “We have never had so many players who want to play their grassroots football with Bradley Stoke Town. We were so inundated that we had
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