A local animal welfare group is offering FREE microchipping for dogs at a special event in Bradley Stoke on Saturday (19th March). Organised by the Friends of South Glos Strays, the event comes just two weeks before a new law comes into force making it compulsory for all dogs over the age of 8 weeks to be microchipped. Each microchip, which is about
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Staff, governors and pupils at Bradley Stoke’s Holy Trinity Primary School are celebrating after receiving another positive report from Ofsted. An Ofsted inspector visited the school on 12th January to carry out the first ‘short’ inspection since Holy Trinity was judged to be ‘good’ in 2011 and concluded that the leadership team has maintained the ‘good’ quality of education in
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MetroBus construction firm Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd has published detailed phasing plans for the work it is carrying out on Bradley Stoke Way between Aztec West and Patchway Brook Roundabout. The plans, which show work on this stretch of the road continuing until December 2016, appeared without announcement on the firm’s community website just days after local MP Jack Lopresti called
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. The Common East We have, for the moment, finished our work at The Common East. A new path has been laid, the original gate has been moved, the orchard cleared, the seats repaired and painted, dead trees have been removed from the path’s edge, the pond has had
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By Martin Lee of BSYFC When the Bradley Stoke Youth FC (BSYFC) U14 Girls entered the early rounds of the Gloucestershire FA (GFA) County Cup way back in October 2015, no-one expected that they would be announcing they would be playing in the final on 13th March 2016. In the early rounds, the team managed to avoid any pitfalls and
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South Gloucestershire Council has opened a public consultation on proposed changes to its library service which could see opening hours at main libraries (such as Bradley Stoke and Patchway) cut by an average of eight hours per week and smaller branches (such as Filton) reduced to opening on just two days a week or being closed altogether. As part of
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Bradley Stoke Journal editor Stephen Horton was pleased to be invited to meet up with Graham Baker, Bradley Stoke Town Council’s youth participation worker, to view progress on the new skate park being constructed in the grounds of Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre. We were joined by James, Ash, Tom and Josh, just four of a group of around a dozen
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Our January workday was, as always, two hedge-laying workdays instead of one day. Using traditional methods, we continued laying a hedge along the length of Bradley Stoke Way. To all of you who saw it, we know it looks brutal and you may think the trees won’t
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Three local business have teamed up to launch the Stars of the Stokes awards, a set of community awards for the local area, including Little Stoke, Stoke Gifford, Harry Stoke and Winterbourne. Willow Brook Centre, Bradley Stoke Journal and Hilton Hotel officially launched the awards with a call for entries last month. A double page spread in the March edition
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Every March, thousands of people across the country join together and pull out all the stops to get behind the Great Daffodil Appeal. By giving a little bit of time to do something they love, they’re supporting people living with a terminal illness. The local Marie Curie Five Stokes Fundraising Group will be collecting at: Saturday 5th March – Willow
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