The Aldi supermarket in Bradley Stoke has been granted permission for longer “working and delivery hours” despite opposition from the Town Council. Officers at South Gloucestershire Council have allowed the store to operate for an hour longer on all seven days of the week, overruling an objection from the Town Council’s Planning Committee that this would be “detrimental to the
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Bradley Stoke Youth FC U14s, who play in Division 1 of the Avon Youth League, played Oldland Abbots on Sunday and, in a dominant display of football, took all three points with a 4-0 scoreline. Bradley Stoke made their intentions clear in the first 20 minutes with both Jacob Wood and Josh Troke testing the Oldland keeper. Strong defending by
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One of the UK’s best known choir conductors will be taking a Sing for All Workshop at Bradley Stoke Community School next Saturday (22nd September). Grenville Jones lives in Bath and has been featured on TV and radio across the world. In July he received an honorary doctorate from Bath Spa University for his contribution to music. He is conductor
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Bradley Stoke Mayor Charlotte Walker and local MP Jack Lopresti will perform the official opening of the Town Council’s new office today, despite Ms Walker voting against inviting Mr Lopresti to perform the honour at a recent Council meeting. The Council had already decided that the Mayor should be involved in the official opening but a farcical debate at a
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The 30mph speed limit on a stretch of Bradley Stoke Way near the Willow Brook Centre has been extended northwards by 260m, so that it covers the approaches to a newly constructed pedestrian crossing. A new 30mph sign (pictured) has been installed north of the crossing and a sign marking the transition from 30mph to 40mph for northbound traffic placed
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Bradley Stoke Town FC’s first team lost a 2-0 advantage to draw on Tuesday night (11th September) when they played Rangeworthy on the Jubilee field. The game started brightly with both teams creating chances. Home and away teams looked like they were ready for the game. Especially Bradley Stoke, who are still looking for their first 3 points of the
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A local police chief has turned down an offer of free accommodation for the Bradley Stoke beat team in the Town Council’s new office at the Jubilee Centre, saying it would give the police a significantly lower profile than they have at their present base in the Willow Brook shopping centre. The police currently have a base in a small
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Councillors in Bradley Stoke are fighting to keep youth centres across South Gloucestershire open – despite voting to close their town’s only youth club just fourteen months ago. Under proposals published earlier this year, South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) said it was planning to transfer control of all its youth centres to locally-based organisations. Any youth centres that failed to attract
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Bradley Stoke Town FC Reserves took on Brislington Cricketers Reserves on Saturday afternoon at Bradley Stoke Community School and came away with a 2-0 win. The first half looked promising as Bradley Stoke were certainly quicker to the ball and had a fair amount of possession. Plus a phenomenal strike from Bradley Stoke centre back Jason Lee, who took the
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Conservative candidate Paul Hardwick has been declared the winner of yesterday’s by-election in the Meadowbank parish ward of Bradley Stoke. Mr Hardwick ran out a clear winner, with a margin of 111 votes over his nearest rival Caroline Sullivan (UKIP). The Labour candidate, Robin Horsfall, finished third. The Liberal Democrats, who held one of the two seats in the ward
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