Bradley Stoke residents are being invited to create a will “for free”, in return for a suggested donation to the local air ambulance service. Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) provides an air ambulance service for the 2.1m people of Bristol, Bath, North Somerset and the surrounding counties. In a show of support, solicitors across its coverage area have agreed
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More than £8,500 has been given away to shoppers at the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke during a four-week promotion that started in early February. Customers were given the chance to win one of a number of guaranteed prizes on offer, including £500 Tesco gift cards. Matt McNay was the first lucky customer to bag £500 worth of Tesco gift
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The weather looks set fair for the Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB) group’s Big Spring Clean and March workday tomorrow (Saturday 15th March). Why not get involved and help improve your local neighbourhood? Here’s what Gillian Rodger and Sara Messenger wrote about tomorrow’s event in the March edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine: Our next workday will be held
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The car parking situation at Bradley Stoke Surgery has improved significantly after staff at the doctors’ practice were told, in January, that it would become a “disciplinary offence” to park on the site, a meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Planning Committee has heard. Patients of the surgery had complained that they were finding it impossible to find a parking
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The police and ambulance services attended a road traffic collision in Savages Wood Road early this morning, after a vehicle travelling eastbound ploughed into a van parked in front of the Hornbeam Close flats. The incident (pictured above), which involved a green Vauxhall Corsa and a white Vauxhall van, occurred at around 6.40am, in foggy conditions. The owner of the
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There is a real buzz in the air at Bradley Stoke’s Bailey’s Court Primary School as they prepare for this year’s big musical production. Since early October, a group of dedicated teachers and around 50 children from across Key Stage 2 have been learning lines, practising over 25 songs and getting to know dance routines and stage directions ready for
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A war memorial, in the form of a “simple granite pillar”, has been installed in the town square at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre. According to a press release issued by the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group, the structure is intended as “a generic memorial to remember all members of our armed forces (and civilians who support them) who
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A “considerable number” of Bradley Stoke homes that are due to be connected to superfast fibre broadband through a state-aided investment programme will have to wait longer to receive the new service because they are on ‘exchange only’ (EO) lines, The Journal has learned. The majority of phone lines are connected to a telephone exchange (in this case, Almondsbury) via
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Work is finally under way to bring faster broadband services to the first of around 3,500 homes in Bradley Stoke that are connected to the Almondsbury telephone exchange (serving 01454 numbers) and have no access to the Virgin Media cable network. The homes that will benefit lie within ‘intervention areas’ in which BT, Virgin Media and other prospective network providers
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Residents of an apartment complex in Bradley Stoke, who claim they have been provided with only half the number of car parking spaces than are actually needed, have appealed to the town council for help. Representatives of the residents’ association at Brook Court, a 50-unit ‘later living’ development recently constructed on Savages Wood Road, near the Three Brooks public house,
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