The organisers of the Bradley Stoke Community Festival have stressed that Saturday’s events at the Jubilee Centre will proceed, whatever the weather. Responding to enquiries from members of the public concerned at the forecast of intense thundery downpours on Saturday morning followed by showers in the early afternoon, town clerk Sharon Petela said: “There are no plans to cancel Saturday’s event.
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The Journal is pleased to announce that Abbie Davies is the lucky winner of our exclusive prize draw to win a year’s free membership at the Anytime Fitness gym in Bradley Stoke. Abbie’s entry was drawn out of the hat by Mark Wathern, facilities manager at the Willow Brook Centre, where the local Anytime Fitness gym is based. The free
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The 2014 Bradley Stoke Community Festival gets under way at 10.30am today (Friday 6th June) with children’s entertainment on Jubilee Green, Savages Wood Road [BS32 8HL]. Professor Panic presents his range of circus skills, juggling and entertainment in the Big Top, alongside local craft and community stalls and a bouncy castle. Refreshments will be served by the local WI during
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Young people from the Bradley Stoke area are actively planning and organising a two day skate event during the upcoming Community Festival weekend of Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th June. On the Saturday there will be a 5 foot high half pipe on the main festival site at Jubilee Green and on the Sunday the half pipe will move to
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A secondary school student from Bradley Stoke and his pal from South Wales are the bookies’ favourite to win the final of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent show, which takes place on Saturday (7th June). Charlie Lenehan, 15, a student at Winterbourne International Academy, along with his friend Leondre Devries, 13, who together form the rap/singing duo Bars and Melody, are currently 5-4 favourites with Ladbrokes
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has agreed to investigate an option for providing ‘pay car parking’ in the centre of Bradley Stoke after being approached by residents of the Brook Court ‘later living’ apartment complex, where there is an acknowledged shortage of parking spaces. Roger Grimshaw, secretary of the residents’ association at Brook Court, originally approached the town council back in
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The June 2014 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine will be dropping on doormats this weekend. The lead story in this month’s 40-page edition is a look back at the “cows run amok in city streets” incident that put Bradley Stoke in the national headlines at the beginning of May, complete with photos from Journal readers. Well done to
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The Bradley Stoke Journal has vacancies for deliverers of its monthly magazine, distributed on the first weekend of every month. We have an immediate vacancy for a deliverer to service a round in north Bradley Stoke, covering streets that include Campion Drive and Brackendene. This would suit someone who lives in that part of Bradley Stoke. Minimum age: 14. We
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Shoppers at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke are in for a treat when they get the chance to meet a real superstar in the flesh – or rather in the metal – Titan the Robot. The towering robot is coming to Willow Brook this half-term on Thursday (29th May) to perform three shows – at 11am, 12.30pm and 2pm.
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A formal planning application has been submitted to South Gloucestershire Council for the erection of a new primary school within the grounds of Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS). As previously reported in The Journal, the new ‘primary phase’ building will be located on an area of land that is currently used as a secondary car park, located between the school’s
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