An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. By the time our October workday arrived, I think we were on ‘Plan D’ or maybe even ‘E’, but a plan is still a plan! We returned to the rose garden on Brook Way (just north of the doctors’ surgery) and seven of us, including newbie Emma, spent
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The RAC building in Bradley Stoke is to play host to 100 classic cars early on the morning of Saturday 5th November as one of the most iconic and famous rallies in the world, the RAC Rally of the Tests, comes to Bristol. The first competitors will arrive at the RAC in Great Park Road (BS32 4QN) just after 8am.
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Do you enjoy capturing the changing colours of autumn on your camera or smartphone? Well, this year you have an extra incentive because the Journal has launched its ‘Autumn 2016 in The Stokes’ photo competition, with a first prize of £30. The prize will be awarded to whoever sends us the shot that best captures the beauty of the season in the
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Our community herb garden has had a spruce up, as have our welcome planters. We had given up waiting for our planter at the Aztec Roundabout to be put back in place, so Andy and I did it ourselves, which was no mean feat. Even Andy wondered just
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Thwaites’ shire horses were at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre yesterday (Saturday 1st October) as staff at the Aztec Hotel & Spa celebrated winning a top hospitality award. The horses came down from Blackburn to deliver a celebration ale for people to enjoy after Thwaites won the AA award for Hotel Group of the Year. Aztec Hotel & Spa
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Staff from the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke are looking for suggestions for further community projects to get involved with after successfully completing their latest assignment, at Patchway Community Centre. Eleven members of staff took a day out from the store to brighten up the small hall at the centre by giving it a lick of paint. Dawn Richards,
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. We were bowled over by the number of lovely gardens that we saw while judging our annual Best Front Garden competition, including some that didn’t enter this year but have been persuaded to enter next year! As the number and standard of gardens increases each year so does
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Post Office Limited has announced that the post office branch within the Tesco Express store at Bradley Pavilions, Pear Tree Road is to be modernised into what it calls a ‘main style’ branch. To allow work to be carried out, the branch will close on Wednesday 7th September at 5.30pm and reopen on Monday 26th September at 1pm. Any unforeseen schedule
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By Nick Nelson, Group Chair, 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group. We are extremely lucky at 1st Bradley Stoke Scouts to have a Group Scout Leader who has over forty years’ experience of Scouting and is still as enthusiastic as ever. Clive Mason has been a driving force behind our Scout Group and has served as our Chair and as our
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Pet owners in the area surrounding Bradley Stoke and Stoke Gifford have access to a very helpful Facebook group, called Lost and Found Pets in Bristol/South Glos. The group has over 17,000 members in the area and is very useful for pet owners. The group was set up by Michelle Pibworth in April 2012 when her own cat Whisky went
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