At Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday 11th May, Cllr Elaine Hardwick was elected to the position of mayor of Bradley Stoke. The outgoing mayor, Cllr Roger Avenin, welcomed everyone to the meeting and explained that it was his pleasure, as his last action in the role of mayor of the town, to present cheques to the two recipients of
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The Five Stokes Fundraising Group is hosting a ‘Blooming Great Tea Party’ to raise funds for Marie Curie on Saturday 21st May. The event, which runs from 2pm to 4pm at Stoke Gifford Baptist Church, Rock Lane (BS34 8PF), will include teas/coffees and a assortment of cakes. All the money raised will help Marie Curie provide more free care to
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A new Holland & Barrett store is to open this Wednesday (18th May) at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre. The store is located within the mall unit previously occupied by Excellence Spa, between Vodafone and Carphone Warehouse. The unit has been closed since the Excellence Spa business suddenly ceased trading in mid-August 2015, leaving some customers with unredeemed gift vouchers. It was repossessed by the
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A new set of long-term roadworks at Aztec West gets under way today (Monday 16th May). The scheme, which involves widening the A38 southbound approach to the Aztec West Roundabout, widening the eastern side of the roundabout to provide four lanes, installing new light-controlled crossings for pedestrians and cyclists across three arms of the roundabout and widening the shared use footway/cycleway either side of the
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By Tomi Hernija & Mike Carr, 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group The Water Rats (a.k.a 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group’s water activity unit) are ready and kitted out for another exciting year of water activities. After a very positive start last year, we plan to get over 250 Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers “on the water” to experience traditional raft
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[Advertising Feature] The Bradley Stoke Journal is offering readers the chance to win a year’s free gym membership at Anytime Fitness Bradley Stoke in an exclusive prize draw that is open until 31st May 2016. Anytime Fitness is the world’s largest 24hr gym chain with over 3,000 sites worldwide. There are currently four sites in Bristol, one of them located in
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My wife and I sadly witnessed a mindless act of destruction yesterday on the big hill in the nature reserve. On our walk we saw several teenagers on the hill and 5 minutes later a fire broke out where they were standing which quickly grew out of control. We called the police and fire service to attend and confronted the
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The Olympus Academy Trust (OAT), which currently comprises four local schools, including founding member Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), has announced that it is in talks with four further schools about possibly joining the trust. The news comes just weeks after the government announced that all schools will be required to become academies by 2022, although OAT says it had
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By Katherine Robinson of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group. As regular readers will know, the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group was able to start its own marching band earlier this year, thanks to winning a Vodafone Community Connection Award that was promoted through The Journal. We are now very excited to be in a position to offer spaces to
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Bradley Stoke’s new skate park was officially opened by Mayor Roger Avenin on Saturday 23rd April. The new concrete park, in the grounds of Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, was commissioned by the town council at a cost now approaching £300,000. It is a replacement for a much smaller skate park on the same site that had reached the end of
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