Construction of the new Beacon play park on the Jubilee Green, Savages Wood Road, finally got underway this week as contractors moved onto the site. The park was originally expected to be finished by Easter, with an official opening planned for the Community Festival in June, but delays and setbacks have seen the projected completion date slip to the end
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The 2009 Bradley Stoke Community Festival is to feature local bands and dance groups at the Jubilee Centre Arena on Saturday 13th June. Performances will start at 12:30pm and run through to a later than usual closing time of 8:30pm. Musical styles on offer range from samba through Afro beat and jazz to 50s and 60s covers, while dance groups
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Bradley Stoke has plenty of events to keep the children occupied this half term, with activities on offer at the Leisure Centre, Library and Willow Brook Centre. Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre’s May Half Term Holiday Programme (for children aged four to sixteen) runs from Tuesday 26th to Friday 29th May and includes activities ranging from rollerskating to basketball. Bradley Stoke Library
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Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP) is inviting toddlers and their parents/carers to a feast of fun activities on Friday 15th May at Bradley Stoke’s Brook Way Activity Centre. Winsome Barrett-Muir of SBCP says: We are aware that there are many toddlers in Bradley Stoke and we want to celebrate them with a fun event for them and their parents/carers. We
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A popular car boot sale that takes place near Bradley Stoke is to re-open for the 2009 season this weekend. The Trench Lane Boot Sale, held on Sundays on a farmland site opposite the entrance to Woodlands Golf Club [map], will open for the first time this year on Sunday 3rd May. The site opens to sellers and buyers at
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Bradley Stoke Town Footbal Club (BSTFC) have won promotion for the third consecutive season after a 3-0 victory over close rivals Shireway Sports at the Jubilee Centre on Saturday. The local team needed to win the match as a draw would have left Shireway with a chance of clinching the title with victory in their final game next Saturday. The
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A Bradley Stoke runner is hoping to raise £1300 for a theatre charity by taking part in the Flora London Marathon this Sunday (26th April). Owen Wood (19) of Kemperley Way signed up just three months ago to represent the Chickenshed charity in the famous race. He has so far raised just short of £1200, mostly from colleagues at Canada
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The route of the ever-popular Bradley Stoke 10k race has been changed in response to feedback from runners and marshals at last year’s event. This year’s race, to be held on Sunday 14th June as part of the Bradley Stoke Community Festival, will start and finish at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. In previous years the race has
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Wednesday’s meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council’s (BSTC’s) Finance & Leisure Committee was told that the cost of the new Jubilee Green play park is likely to be £50k more than had been originally estimated. The March meeting of Full Council had been told that tenders for the project would be opened on 3rd April and that work should start
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Bradley Stoke has plenty of events to keep the children occupied this Easter holiday, with activities on offer at the Leisure Centre, Library and Willow Brook Centre. Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre’s Easter Holiday Programme (for children aged four to sixteen) runs from Monday 6th to Friday 17th April and includes activities ranging from trampolining to karate. Bradley Stoke Library has a
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