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A group of travellers with more than ten vehicles has set up camp on a grass verge alongside Bradley Stoke Way overnight (Thursday 21st/Friday 22nd August). The same strip of land, near Primrose Bridge (between Aldi and the Willow Brook Centre), was the site of a ten-day illegal traveller encampment in June. Three vehicles were seen at the site shortly
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There seems to be an awful lot of seagulls around Bradley Stoke this year! I’ve never seen so many! We were sat in our garden enjoying a BBQ in this beautiful sunny weather we are luckily having [1] when above us were five or six seagulls obviously waiting to scavenge our leftovers. Obviously, we didn’t feed them and would encourage
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South Gloucestershire has received £60,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for its ‘South Gloucestershire and the First World War’ project, which includes a touring exhibition that will visit Bradley Stoke for four weeks from 1st September. The First World War Centenary project will involve local community heritage organisations working with South Gloucestershire Council to improve public engagement with the
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Yesterday evening (Sunday 3rd August), my husband and I walked down to the lake in Bradley Stoke with our dog. At the lake was a group of young people, approx. 14-16 years old. One of them, a young lad about 14 was throwing stones into the lake. The ducks, thinking he was throwing food, had all congregated very near him.
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Work is now under way to bring superfast fibre broadband to hundreds of premises on ‘exchange only’ (EO) telephone lines in Bradley Stoke. Homes connected via EO lines have, until now, seen no benefit from South Gloucestershire Council’s state-subsidised infrastructure upgrade programme, which has initially focussed on upgrading existing street cabinets using ‘fibre to the cabinet’ (FTTC) technology. In order
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People who park illegally or inconsiderately in Bradley Stoke could find photos of their vehicles posted in an online ‘hall of shame’ that has been set up by an anonymous group of concerned residents. The ‘Park It Right Bradley Stoke’ Facebook page, which posted its first photos on 16th July, mimics a similarly named page set up in Lowestoft, Suffolk,
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There’s a busy weekend of community events ahead in Bradley Stoke, with the dedication of the town’s new war memorial and a World War One commemoration service in the town square on Saturday morning (2nd August), followed by the annual Ben Walker/BSTFC pro-celebrity charity football match on Sunday (3rd August). On Saturday, a uniformed parade (formed of members of 1st
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The West of England Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre moved to Bradley Stoke, from Nailsea, in February 2012. Since then it has made a huge difference to people in the local area and beyond. So much so that the Centre, a Registered Charity, is planning to extend its hours of operation to allow more people to access treatment. Since the Centre
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I’m trying my luck and posting on the forum as our cat has gone missing from the Palmers Leaze area, and has been missing for at least three weeks. Her name is Gabby and she is black and white, predominately black back and white legs, but one of her front legs as a black spot on it. She also has
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A Bradley Stoke resident has been announced as one of around 40 recipients of a medal issued to mark a century of Sikh presence in the east African country of Uganda. Dr Harmandar Singh Gupta, 72, a resident of the Bluebell Gardens retirement home in Savages Wood Road, is planning to return to the country of his birth in September,
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