A Bradley Stoke opticians recently pledged to support Hope for Morgan during 2015 and will continue its fundraising efforts on Friday 19th June with a pub quiz. Specsavers, based in the Willow Brook Centre, is holding a charity quiz night at Little Stoke Social Club from 7.30pm. Teams of either four or six can enter for £3 per person with all
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Circadian Trust, the not-for profit organisation which operates eight leisure centres across South Gloucestershire, has been awarded a grant by Sport England worth £750,000 to implement new environmental practices and technology. The Trust, whose headquarters are at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, was approached by Sport England, the public body that provides services and funding to sport in England, to help create
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Members of South Gloucestershire Hockey Club (SGHC) are hoping history will repeat itself in Bradley Stoke this bank holiday weekend as they try to reclaim a Guinness World Record. Starting at 10am today (Saturday 23rd May) and ending at 12noon on Monday (25th May), SGHC plans to play the longest single continuous field hockey match of all time. The event
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A Bradley Stoke woman taking part in next weekend’s Bristol 10k is calling on runners to support local charity St Peter’s Hospice at the event, after losing her sister to a terminal illness. Lenka Stastna, 25, gave up her life in native Slovakia to move to Bristol and care for her only sister Zdenka, when she was diagnosed with skin cancer
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A Bradley Stoke Explorer Scout has achieved the prestigious Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) Gold Award after completing challenges across five disciplines over a period of more than four years. Mollie Lockett, 19, was invited to St James’s Palace, London, on 11th March, to receive her award in the presence of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh. Attending the Solar Explorer Scout
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[Advertising Feature] The Bradley Stoke Journal is offering readers the chance to win a year’s free gym membership at Anytime Fitness Bradley Stoke in an exclusive prize draw that is open until 31st May 2015. Anytime Fitness is the world’s largest 24hr gym chain with over 2,400 sites worldwide. There are currently four sites in Bristol, one of them located
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Parish councils in Almondsbury and Bradley Stoke are to discuss a controversial planning application for a proposed new helicopter base on on green belt land close to the M4/M5 junction, just across the M5 motorway from the RAC building in north Bradley Stoke. The new base would serve the needs of the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity and National Police Air Service, whose
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A kebab van operator who rents a pitch in the car park of Brook Way Activity Centre has returned to trade at the site after an absence of seven months. Ozzy’s Kebabs has been trading again at the site, on Friday and Saturday nights only, since the beginning of April, after Bradley Stoke Town Council issued an ultimatum that threatened
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Bradley Stoke Judo Club has grown significantly over the past couple of years and is proud to boast members who attend from as far afield as Wales, Swindon, Bath, Weston, Cirencester and Cheddar. However, nothing pleases the club coaches more than when locally based members achieve success and reach new levels of excellence. The latest club member to achieve this
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Seventeen-year-old Kayleigh Smallcombe, a Human Resources apprentice working for Circadian Trust at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, has shaved her head to raise money for cancer and dementia charities, in memory of her late grandmother, Rose. Kayleigh decided to take the plunge after experiencing first-hand the pain of losing someone she loved dearly to dementia. Her decision to do this is
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