Local Conservatives are celebrating a clean sweep of all five Bradley Stoke seats in the South Gloucestershire district elections and all 15 seats on Bradley Stoke Town Council, repeating their across the board victory at the last local elections in 2011. The results leave former town mayor Ben Walker, who defected to UKIP a year after being elected on a Conservative ticket in
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Building work on the new primary phase building at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), which is due to open with an intake of 30 Reception children in September, remains on target for completion by the end of June, according to a spokesperson for the school. The internal and external structures have been completed and decisions are now being made with
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Conservative Jack Lopresti has retained his Filton and Bradley Stoke parliamentary seat with an increased majority of 20.0 percent, compared to 14.3 percent in 2010. Labour’s candidate Ian Boulton finished second with a 26.6 percent share of the vote, slightly up from the 26.4 percent he polled in 2010. Ben Walker, the UKIP candidate, finished in third place, on 14.8 percent.
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Bradley Stoke has seven polling stations open today for voting in the 2015 general, district and town elections. The local polling stations (open until 10pm) are: Baileys Court Activity Centre Bradley Stoke Evangelical Church, Baileys Court Road Brook Way Activity Centre Church of Christ the King, Mautravers Close Holy Trinity Church, Broad Croft Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road St Joseph’s Centre
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A Bradley Stoke company which supplies innovative safety, management and compliance software for the global airline industry has won Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of its outstanding international sales growth. Vistair Systems, based at Broadway House, Woodlands (off Woodlands Lane), has seen its headcount grow steadily from eight people to well over 100 since the company was formed in
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[Advertising Feature] Bradley Stoke Pharmacy, located on Brook Way, alongside Bradley Stoke Surgery, is to reduce its opening hours from Wednesday 6th May 2015, when it merges with the nearby Ferndene Pharmacy (formerly Jhoots Pharmacy and, before that, Lloyds Pharmacy). Ferndene Pharmacy will cease trading after the close of business on Tuesday 5th May 2015. The changes come seven months
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A popular car boot sale that takes place near Bradley Stoke is due to re-open for the 2015 season this weekend. The weekly Trench Lane Boot Sale, held on Sundays on a farmland site opposite the entrance to Woodlands Golf Club [map], will open for the first time this year on Sunday 3rd May. As in previous years, the site
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By Moira de Groot of North Bristol Running Group (NBRG). What an exciting month April is! The sun is shining, it is lighter and brighter and we are seeing more and more enthusiastic athletes out and about. Some of our runners are training for marathons and other challenges, whilst our first group of Couch to 5km runners (now the Improvers’
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Candidates for the Bradley Stoke Town Council elections, which take place on the same day as the general election (Thursday 7th May), have been officially announced. The Conservatives, who won all 15 seats on the town council at the last election in 2011, put up the highest number of candidates (15), followed by UKIP (8) and Labour (6). The Liberal Democrats,
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Eight sewing competition finalists glammed up ready for the reveal of the John Lewis’ Student Prom Competition on Thursday 19th March. Having designed their outfits and spent February half-term in the John Lewis Cribbs Causeway store making their dream outfits a reality, finalists Chloe Lorenzi and Simran Kaur from Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), Ashleigh Porton from Patchway Community School,
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