All eyes will be on Bradley Stoke Town FC this Saturday (26th May) as they host a charity match for Heart’s ‘Have A Heart’ Campaign in which all proceeds will go to Childline. The match takes place at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road [BS32 8HL, map], with kick off scheduled for 2pm. BBQ and refreshments will be available
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A party of students from Bradley Stoke’s twin town of Champs-sur-Marne (France) visited Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) for a day earlier this month. The students were welcomed by members of the Bradley Stoke Twinning Association before going on to take part in a day of activities at the school, the Leisure Centre and the Willow Brook Centre. In the
Continue readingA Bradley Stoke woman has been jailed for six months for fraudulently claiming more than £45k from the MoD, according to a report on the Mail Online website. Helen Baggaley, of Champs Sur Marne, took advantage of a “lax accounting system” which allowed her to sign off her own expenses. She siphoned off thousands of pounds in fake travel and
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Local runners, joggers and walkers are being encouraged to get their entries in for the 2012 renewal of the Bradley Stoke 10k Run, to be held on Sunday 3rd June as part of the town’s Community Festival. Organising club Sole Sisters report that entries for the popular race have now passed the 300 mark, leaving fewer than 200 places available
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Managers at the Willow Brook Shopping Centre in Bradley Stoke have declared war on waste – saving more than 50 tons of rubbish from being sent to landfill every year. In the space of just six months, incoming property managers Colliers International have boosted the rate of waste recycled from 77.4 to 90 per cent with the remainder being reused
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History was made in Bradley Stoke last night (Wednesday 16th May) at the Town Council’s AGM when Cllr Charlotte Walker (Con, Lakeside) was elected as Town Mayor for the coming year and so become the youngest female Mayor in the country. Cllr Walker, who has lived in Bradley Stoke since she was 11, became the town’s youngest ever Councillor last
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A big operation by the Avon and Somerset Police Force in Bradley Stoke this morning has resulted in the arrest of five young men. The police helicopter was seen hovering over the area behind Bradley Stoke Community School between about 11am and 11:30am. A covert police car, containing two plain clothes officers, was also involved in the operation – seen
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Local residents are being invited to get involved in the fight against an invasive weed that has become a problem in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, across South Gloucestershire and beyond. Himalayan balsam is a non-native plant which is found along our rivers and streams and its seeds can quickly spread, smothering other native flowers and vegetation as
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Bradley Stoke Mayor Ben Walker has become the target of a smear campaign aimed at stopping him becoming the Chair of South Gloucestershire Council, a position he is due to take on next week after serving for the past year as Vice Chair. A letter alleging irregularities in the financial management of two construction companies of which Cllr Walker is
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Police investigating a fatal road traffic collision in Bradley Stoke this morning (Friday 11th May) are appealing for witnesses. At around 8:20am, a Yamaha FZR 1000 motorcycle was travelling from the direction of the Aztec West Roundabout towards Trench Lane when the rider mounted the pavement in Wooodlands Lane for reasons that are unknown and struck a post. The 24-year-old
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