Despite the wet, cold and windy weather we are having at the moment, it’s amazing to think it’s only three months until the cricket season starts! Bradley Stoke Cricket Club (BSCC), which runs four adult sides on a Saturday, two on a Sunday and youth teams from under-10s right through to under-17s, start their indoor nets in the next few weeks.
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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 have seen it, we know it looks brutal and you may think the trees won’t ever
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South Gloucestershire Council has conceded that it isn’t doing enough to keep residents informed about the large number of major roadworks that are currently under way or planned across the district. The admission came in a quarterly performance report submitted to the council’s Planning, Transportation & Strategic Environment Committee at the end of January which showed that public satisfaction with
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Morgan Walker, an eleven-year-old who attends Wheatfield Primary School, has been through challenges few people can imagine. He was born eight weeks prematurely, after which he suffered twenty minutes of cardiac arrest and damage to parts of the brain which doctors felt would make him unable to walk or talk. Morgan has proved their predictions wrong as he started walking
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The town council’s £260,000 project to construct a new concrete skate park in the grounds of Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre reached a significant milestone in January with the selection of Wheelscape as the preferred contractor. In view of the value of the project, an invitation to tender for the construction work had to be advertised on a regional procurement website
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The February 2015 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine has been dropping on doormats this weekend. This month’s headline story concerns the selection of a contractor for Bradley Stoke’s new £260k skate park in the grounds of the leisure centre. Subject to planning approval, construction is expected to start in July and be completed by the end of September. Also featuring
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All ten fibre-enabled street cabinets that were programmed to be installed in Bradley Stoke in order to bring superfast broadband to up to 3,500 homes that did not previously have access to it have now been declared “live and ready for service”. The final cabinet to go live, no. 38 (on Brook Way, opposite the junction with Dewfalls Drive), is now
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Bradley Stoke Judo Club fighter Lele Nairne, 16, from Kewstoke, North Somerset (but originally from Bradley Stoke) has been named South Gloucestershire Young Sportsperson of the Year in recognition of her success in numerous international competitions over the last 12 months. Cadet British champion Lele broke into the senior team last December where she won the -57kg bronze at the
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Bradley Stoke Cricket Club (BSCC) has announced plans to replace and re-site the “dilapidated” practice nets at its Baileys Court ground and is inviting local residents to attend two informal ‘drop-in’ consultation events to find out more about the project. The club says the Bailey Court nets are now the only ones in Bradley Stoke, after the nets that were previously at
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Motorists heading out of Bradley Stoke through Stoke Lodge look likely to find themselves having to negotiate two separate sets of temporary traffic lights on Stoke Lane for the next few weeks. Last week, South Gloucestershire Council began construction of a new zebra crossing on Stoke Lane south of the Painswick Avenue junction. A separate project on the same road due to start this week involves the
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