Scores of residents in Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke and Stoke Gifford have missed out on South Gloucestershire Council’s one-off collection of unused and unwanted green bins because of problems with the distribution of a leaflet that was supposed to give residents one week’s notice of the date on which the bins needed to be left out. The December edition of
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We’re looking for contributions to the February 2015 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine. If you (or a group / organisation / business / school you are associated with) have something you think would be of interest, please email: info@bradleystokejournal.co.uk We’re looking for: feature articles, event reports, future events (what’s on), news in brief items, photos, readers’ letters etc. The copy deadline
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Local residents may soon have to pre-register details of their residency and motor vehicles before being allowed entry to Sort It recycling centres in South Gloucestershire, such as the one in Station Road, Little Stoke. The proposal is one of many cost-saving ideas put forward by officials at South Gloucestershire Council, in an attempt to deliver £36m of savings between
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Our December workday was again spent in Savages Wood coppicing hazel & dead hedging much to the dismay of many of the passing dogs, who thought that the pile of freshly cut sticks was an early Christmas present to them! Sadly, our bird box survey has revealed that the majority of our boxes have either disappeared or have suffered damage
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An electrical “power surge” caused computer systems to crash at the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke today, resulting in the store being closed to customers for more than six hours. The Journal understands that tills and other electronic equipment at the store “went down” as a result of the power supply incident and subsequently failed to reset themselves correctly. Journal readers reported
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Improvement work on the northbound exit slip road at junction 16 of the M5 (Almondsbury) is due to get under way this week. The Highways Agency is carrying out the work as part of the Government’s Pinch Point programme, which forms part of the growth initiative outlined during the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement in November 2011. According to the agency: “Pinch Points provides smaller scale improvements
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A new volunteer group has launched to raise funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care. The group has been aptly named ‘Five Stokes’ as it covers Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke, Stoke Gifford, Harry Stoke and Stoke Lodge. The Five Stokes Fundraising Group was formally launched at the Willow Brook Centre on Saturday 22nd November 2014, when it also held one of
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December finally brought some good news for scores of residents in central Bradley Stoke who had been waiting for months to be able to place an order for superfast broadband after their lines were re-routed into a new fibre-enabled street cabinet back in September. As reported in our December magazine, frustrated customers within the postcode areas said by South Gloucestershire
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Road users in North Bristol look set to be plagued by a whole year of major roadworks if, as expected, the North Fringe to Hengrove Package MetroBus project receives final approval from the Government in early 2015. In February 2014, South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) announced an £8m package of major road and cycle route improvements designed to help to tackle
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has announced the appointment of a headteacher for its new primary phase, due to open for Reception age children in September. Sharon Clark, currently deputy headteacher at The Tynings Primary School in Staple Hill, will formally take up her new role at BSCS at Easter. She has a background in early years education, having spent five years
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