By Katherine Robinson of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group. Our Scout group and the Willow Brook Centre are busy preparing for the annual Remembrance parade and ceremony on Sunday 8th November. This year will see more participants than ever before as our Scout group has expanded considerably and we have also had more interest from other local youth groups.
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An Oxfordshire man (previously living in South Gloucestershire) has been ordered to pay £1,071 in fines and costs after admitting fly tipping waste in Little Stoke. Stephen Wilkes, 25, of Witney, Oxfordshire, appeared before North Avon Magistrates’ Court on Friday 21st August. He pleaded guilty to fly tipping waste and not having a Waste Transfer Note or a Registered Waste
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A local resident has organised a ‘Workshop on Preventing Climate Change’, to be held at Holy Trinity Church, Broad Croft, Bradley Stoke at 7.30pm on Monday 26th October. Phil Kingston, of Grandparents for a Safe Earth, is inviting members of the public to attend the event, which will focus on the work of 350.org, an international organisation that campaigns to keep fossil fuels
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced that Bradley Stoke is to be the next residential area in the district to have its street lights converted to low-emission LED technology, as part of district-wide measures to reduce street lighting-related energy costs and carbon emissions. LED lights are fast becoming the norm for local authority street lights as they consume about 60 percent
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Volunteers from the local offices of a national banking firm have created several unique pieces of learning and play equipment for a Bradley Stoke pre-school. Each year, Lloyds Banking Group supports its staff to spend a day out of the office volunteering on projects to benefit the community. The scheme is known as ‘A Day to Make a Difference’. The
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Four months after the sexual assault of a young woman at the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, a group of four students from Bradley Stoke Community School have set up a campaign to place more lighting in this area. The student-led campaign addresses the need for more street lights around the nature reserve which currently has minimal lighting during the
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Since widespread civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, refugees have been fleeing the country at an increasing rate. The ongoing Syrian refugee crisis has seen millions of refugees displaced across different parts of the world and it is now estimated that 500,000 Syrian migrants and refugees have entered the EU in 2015. As the crisis worsens, many communities
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Contractors working for Virgin Media have laid hundreds of metres of cable ducting along streets in Bradley Stoke over the last two months (as predicted in our August magazine), but the telecoms giant is still refusing to publicly confirm that the work is part of a massive expansion of its cable network to reach thousands more homes in the town.
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A hair and beauty salon at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre that closed suddenly in mid-August is yet to resume trading, despite assurances that the business would re-open within weeks. A notice on the door of the Excellence Spa salon, which opened at the centre in July 2011, reads: “We are sorry that the spa is now closed due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Community groups in and around Bradley Stoke have just one more week to apply for a £1,000 windfall – offered courtesy of mobile phone giant Vodafone, which has a retail store at the town’s Willow Brook shopping centre. Community Connection Awards are Vodafone’s way of “giving something back” to the communities in which their stores are located, and are intended
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