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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James Freeman, the new boss of the First West of England, has conceded that the quality of service on Bradley Stoke’s 73 bus route has sunk to an “unacceptable” level and says his company plans to introduce a “completely different sort of timetable” on 29th March. The remarks came in an interview on BBC Radio Bristol’s John Darvall programme on
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The January 2015 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine has been dropping on doormats this weekend. This month’s feature story looks at the 12 months of roadworks that await commuters in and around Bradley Stoke during 2015, should South Gloucestershire Council’s major road improvement schemes and MetroBus project all run to plan. The roadworks are intended to mitigate the effects of
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Get fit in the New Year! Moira de Groot invites you to to join North Bristol Running Group’s regular morning run. It’s that time of year when we start thinking about what we are going to do to improve ourselves or what new challenges we plan on setting ourselves in the New Year. Why not join us? We are a group
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Hiya, I’ve been reading about admissions to Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS). Does anyone know what the furthest distance from the school of a successful applicant in the 2013 applications round was please? I believe the information is available in an admissions print-out that you can read at schools and in local libraries but I’m not local (yet!;) and it’s
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Incidents of violence and vandalism in Bradley Stoke over the Christmas period have marred celebrations for some local residents. On Christmas Eve, fights in the Three Brooks public house spilled out into the street, leaving broken glass over the road and necessitating a police response. Three days later, in the early hours of Saturday 28th December, a Journal reader reported
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Bradley Stoke Youth FC’s (BSYFC’s) grassroots football teams were joined by a special guest on Sunday 16th November, as ex-England football player and McDonald’s Director of Football, Sir Geoff Hurst, made a surprise appearance at their training session. He joined players and coaches at an event to celebrate the success of the McDonald’s FA Charter Standard Kit Scheme which has
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