A new junior football team in north Bristol is celebrating after securing its first sponsorship from local business Mama Bear’s Day Nursery and Pre-School. The Almondsbury Youth FC Under-8s team was set up in September by local man Stuart Lawrence and has grown to 36 players since the first training session was launched. Sponsorship from Mama Bear’s, which has local
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A cyclist from Bradley Stoke is hoping that his share of victory in the recent Bristol Grand Prix will inspire other people to get back in the saddle. Malcolm Dixon, 31, who works at Arriva Transport Solutions (ATSL), was part of the Dream Cycling team which stormed to gold in the prestigious race through Bristol city centre on Saturday 20th June.
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The proprietor of Ozzy’s Kebab van, which trades in the car park of Brook Way Activity Centre, has had his annual street trading licence renewal application referred to a South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) sub-committee following an objection from a local resident. The van has recently been trading at the site on just two nights a week, following a period of non-attendance
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Youngsters and their dads will get the chance to try their hand at climbing at a special Father’s Day event organised by Willow Brook Centre. This Saturday (20th June), Willow Brook will bring a 5.5 metre high climbing tower into the town square for children and adults to scale new heights for free. There will be a fully qualified instructor
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Jack Lopresti, MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, has called a public meeting to discuss a planning application for a new operations base for the Great Western Air Ambulance and the police helicopter which has been submitted for a green belt site in Almondsbury, just across the M5 motorway from the RAC building in north Bradley Stoke. The public meeting will be held
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World Cup hero Sir Geoff Hurst and former Bristol Rovers & England star Gary Mabbutt teamed up with Bradley Stoke Youth FC (BSYFC) to celebrate a Festival of Football as part of the Bradley Stoke Community Festival on Saturday 6th June. The event marked a decade of community football support by McDonald’s that has helped thousands of youngsters enjoy the grassroots game.
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A team of students from Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) have been announced as finalists in the Apps for Good Awards 2015, to be held this Thursday (18th June) at the Barbican in London. The national Apps for Good Awards celebrate the next generation of problem solvers and digital makers – young people who are creating apps to change their world for
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Year 5 pupils at Baileys Court primary School have been taking part in a hands-on science programme in which they have constructed their own miniature fuel cells to generate electricity from waste. Organised in conjunction with staff from the University of the West of England, with the support of a grant from the Royal Society, the 12-week project is intended
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Detectives believe the distinctive smell of a men’s aftershave could be an important clue in their hunt for a sex attacker in Bradley Stoke. They say they want to hear from anyone in the Bradley Stoke area who knows a man who wears Paco Rabanne 1 Million – the perfume the attacker’s victim, a 22-year-old woman, has identified. Detective Inspector
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The 1st Bradley Stoke Scouts have been undertaking a number of water based activities this month. Firstly, they learnt how to row a large boat in Bristol harbour. Not as easy as it seemed, although once they all started pulling at the same time, they found it much easier. The instructors also learnt to duck after being hit a couple
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