This is the second time that my dad, who is 77, a little bit forgetful and suffers with COPD, has been ticketed for not displaying his disabled badge at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke. I agree, it’s a good thing to fine non badge carriers, but please can we show some initiative and empathy for genuine disabled badge carriers who [after finding they have been given a
Continue reading
The Filton and Bradley Stoke Green Party has announced the selection of Dr Diana Warner as the Green Party candidate for the Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS) parliamentary seat in the 2015 general election. Dr Warner lives in Filton and has two adult children. A staunch supporter of the NHS and motivated by improving the health of all, Dr Warner
Continue reading
The local branch of the Rotary Club, known previously as the ‘Rotary Club of Bristol Aztec’, has been officially renamed the ‘Bradley Stoke Rotary Club‘, in order to identify itself more closely with the community it serves. It is hoped the name change will lead to “greater awareness and integration with local residents and make the club more identifiable for
Continue reading
Two suggestions for “Bradley Stokers” suffering poor bus services to Bristol (as recorded in recent editions of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine): Try the trains from nearby Patchway Station (not Parkway). Morning departures 07:06, 07:37 and 08:39 – and only twelve minutes to Temple Meads. A poor frequency and overcrowding, but quick! Contact Jack Lopresti’s (our MP’s) office to support
Continue reading
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.
Continue reading
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
Continue reading
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
Continue reading
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
Continue reading
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
Continue reading
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
Continue reading