Local police have announced that a Pubwatch scheme is now up and running in Bradley Stoke. Three pubs in Bradley Stoke -The Bradley Stoke, The Three Brooks and Baileys Court Inn – have joined The Travellers Rest in Patchway and Stoke Gifford’s Parkway Tavern and Beaufort Arms as founder members. Neighbourhood Beat Manager PC Steve Palmer was instrumental in setting
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A Bradley Stoke man, convicted of money laundering and controlling prostitution at Swansea Crown Court in November 2007, has been ordered to pay back a six figure sum or face two more years in prison. Nicholas Tredgett has been given four months to pay £138,987 after the same court refused to accept his defence that a large portion of the
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A local resident has called for late night firework sales to be stopped in order to prevent a repeat of a 2008 incident in which alcohol-fueled youths fired rockets at homes in the town. The resident told the October meeting of the Bradley Stoke Safer and Stronger Group that numerous properties between Baileys Court and Stoke Gifford had been targetted
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An 18-year-old who stole a £1,000 road bike from a property in Sandy Close, Bradley Stoke has been jailed for 15 months by Bristol Magistrates. Ronald Frost, formerly of Filton Avenue, Horfield but now of no fixed address, also asked for a series of burglaries in Bradley Stoke to be taken into consideration. Read more: Bristol Evening Post
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This week’s public meeting of the Bradley Stoke Safer and Stronger Community Group is to hear a presentation on South Gloucestershire Council’s strategy for combating fly tipping. A representative of the Aztec Hotel & Spa is also due to explain to the meeting how the hotel contributes to the local community. The meeting will commence with a review of progress
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A former member of the Bradley Stoke Neighbourhood Policing Team is now back on the beat thanks in part to funding from Bradley Stoke Town Council. PC Claire Fletcher has returned to the beat after having nine months off on maternity leave. The Town Council agreed in July to become the first town/parish authority in South Gloucestershire to contribute towards
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Police are appealing for information after three cars were damaged and a female was assaulted in Bradley Stoke in the early hours of Sunday 13th September. The incidents occurred at about 1.30am in Stevens Walk (off Hawkins Crescent), when a male could be heard behaving in a loud and abusive manner in the street. Police say that three cars –
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a man was assaulted at a pub in Bradley Stoke. The incident occurred on Friday 28th August 2009 at around 9.30pm at the Three Brooks Public House, Savages Wood Road (near Tesco Extra). Police say the victim heard a dispute at the bar and tried to intervene. He was then assaulted by
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Local police have named Bradley Stoke’s new Council-funded Police Community Support Officer as Paul Baxter, who currently works on the Filton beat. PCSO Baxter, who has been with the force for two years, will join the Bradley Stoke beat team in September. Bradley Stoke is one of five neighbourhood police teams being strengthened by the addition of a PCSO funded
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A road traffic accident on the Winterbourne Road in the early hours of Saturday morning (22nd August) has left two men dead and three others injured. The accident happened at the junction of Winterbourne Road and Old Gloucester Road, close to where the Winterbourne Road passes under the M4 motorway. Avon and Somerset Police say a Mercedes collided with a
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