Council seeks views on plans to build 5,700 homes on and around the Filton Airfield site South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has extended the deadline for comments on its draft Development Framework Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) for the proposed Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood, which could see 5,700 new dwellings built in the area by 2027. The area covered by the new neighbourhood
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Heavy falls of snow have led to the closure of all schools in Bradley Stoke today (Friday 18th) and disrupted travel throughout the area. The snow arrived, as predicted, in the early hours and continued throughout the morning rush hour. The Met Office reported that 7cm of snow had been recorded at Filton Airfield by 9am. News about which schools
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Tasha Mason (13) a student at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), has been selected from an initial 19,500 entrants into the semi-finals of the annual ‘Teen Queen UK‘ beauty pageant. Tasha was invited to enter the competition whilst visiting ‘The Clothes Show Live’ in Birmingham last year with her mother Vicky. She’s now battling for a place in the London
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A Bradley Stoke pub that closed for refurbishment last September is to re-open under a new name in early March. The former ‘Bradley Stoke’ pub in Brook Way (near the Aldi supermarket), which was recently sold to Marstons plc, is scheduled to re-open as ‘The Hollow Tree‘ on Monday 4th March. The pub ceased trading on 27th September 2012 and
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Temporary closure of Little Stoke tip The Sort It! civic amenity site in Station Road, Little Stoke, is to be closed for two weeks in February to allow essential maintenance work to be carried out. The site will be closed from Monday 4th February to Sunday 17th February inclusive, during which time work will undertaken to improve facilities and maintain
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There is an increasing problem with travellers in the Bradley Stoke area. My son has told me on numerous occasions that they intimidate local children in the skate park and by the leisure centre. There are problems in and around Tesco’s. Are the Police aware of this and is there anything that can be done? If they were not so
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The winners of our Bradley Stoke ‘Best Christmas Lights’ 2012 reader poll have nominated the British Lung Foundation (BLF) to receive the charity donation of £100 that was generously offered by local law firm Hutchinson Legal & Associates. Householders Ron and Penny Bidder of 1 Great Meadow Way, the house judged by Journal readers to have the best lights in
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There’s little New Year cheer for consumers suffering from appalling internet connection speeds in Bradley Stoke with the news that both South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) and BT have slipped key dates on broadband improvement projects. SGC announced in November 2012 that BT had been chosen as its preferred supplier for it £2.2 million project to bring superfast broadband to 90%
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A house in Great Meadow Road had the best Christmas lights display in Bradley Stoke for 2012, according to a charity reader poll conducted by The Journal. The property was selected from a shortlist of five entries that had been recommended by fans of our Facebook page in the run-up to Christmas. Attracting 144 votes from the total of 322
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Happy New Year to all our website readers, Facebook fans and Twitter followers from the Journal team! We enjoyed bringing you the town’s most comprehensive news and photo coverage during 2012 and look forward to bringing you more of the same during 2013. Sadly, we haven’t found the time to write our traditional review of the year but a quick
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