Downend Round Table, which covers the Bradley Stoke area, has announced that it will be giving away £10,000 to local worthy causes at a Dragons’ Den style evening next month. As well as registered charities, the organisation says it is prepared to consider “pitches” from all types of groups and even individuals who have a specific need such as wheelchairs
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By Derrick Powell, Bradley Stoke Community Speed Watch Coordinator On Saturday 14th February, we conducted a Speed Watch on Bradley Stoke Way, near the Willow Brook Centre, with four regular team members, two new members and PCSO Ben Sheward. One of the new members was the newly appointed coordinator for the Pilning area, and a new member for the Bradley Stoke
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Increasing levels of dissatisfaction with the standard of Royal Mail’s postal delivery service in and around Bradley Stoke in recent weeks are the result of “modernisation and transformation” changes that have recently been introduced at the Patchway Delivery Office, The Journal can reveal. A message posted on our Facebook page on 13th March by a reader who said she was
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The April 2015 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine has been dropping on doormats over the extended Easter weekend. In this issue, we feature contributions from some of the main candidates expected to stand for the Filton and Bradley Stoke parliamentary seat at the forthcoming general election. We also have details of the election forum (hustings) event that will take
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Since the start of 2015, Community Payback teams have been carrying out work at Bowsland Green Primary School in Bradley Stoke. Community Payback work is organised through the Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset & Wiltshire Community Rehabilitation Company (formerly Avon & Somerset Probation Trust). The project sees individuals who have been sentenced to anything from 40 to 300 hours court orders completing
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After four years of successfully organising a family Easter Ride, members of the Stokes Cycling Club are becoming pros and are raring to go for the next one. The event is completely FREE and if you are stuck with ideas of what to do with the kids on Easter Sunday, then come and join us for a few hours of
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From healthcare to the economy, crime and employment – residents from Bradley Stoke and the surrounding areas will get the chance to quiz some of their local parliamentary candidates on the issues that matter to them at an election forum on Sunday 12th April. Local candidates from the five main political parties will be taking part in a hustings event
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Following the dissolution of parliament on Monday 30th March, Jack Lopresti (Conservative) has officially commenced his campaign to be re-elected as the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS). Born in Southmead Hospital in August 1969, Mr Lopresti has lived and worked in the Bristol and South Gloucestershire area all his life. He lives locally
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Youngsters from North Bristol Juniors Rugby Club had the training session of a lifetime last night (Wednesday 1st April) when they were put through their paces by Bristol Rugby and Welsh national hero Ryan Jones. The former British and Irish Lion, who has earned 75 caps for Wales and won three Grand Slams in the process, led sessions for aspiring
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This Easter, Circadian Trust, the charitable organisation that operates eight Active Centres across South Gloucestershire, including Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, has donated Easter Eggs to fellow local charities and foodbanks. Potential new members were encouraged by Active staff – whose organisational vision is to ‘give more’ – to exchange an Easter Egg for a reduced Active joining fee. The centres
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