The West of England MS Therapy Centre (MSTC) in Wheatfield Drive, Bradley Stoke has recently been welcoming players from Bristol City Football Club (BCFC), who have been using the Centre’s Oxygen Treatment chamber in a bid to reduce post-injury recovery times. Most recently, defender Mark Little has been having sessions in the chamber to speed up his rehabilitation from a
Continue reading
My husband took some items to the local recycling unit this morning, as we missed the collection last Friday. We are keen to recycle as much as we can and have used this facility for the 27 years that we’ve lived in Stoke Gifford. Despite the fact that the automatic registration number plate registered our vehicle correctly, he was stopped
Continue reading
The team behind the recent ‘Bobbly Stoke’ yarn bombing stunt in north Bradley Stoke is calling on local residents to support them in a new project that will see lamp posts and signposts in the town adorned with Christmas decorations. One member of the team, Caroline Sullivan, told The Journal: “After our bobbly hat success, the ‘adopt a Christmas lamp post’ idea
Continue reading
The month of November brought mixed news for the hundreds of Bradley Stoke residents who are still waiting to benefit from the rollout of superfast broadband, whether through BT’s commercial programme (Filton exchange, 0117 numbers) or the state-aided upgrade programme being managed by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC, affecting mostly 01454 numbers). Frustrated customers within the postcode areas said by SGC
Continue reading
A pub/restaurant in Bradley Stoke is hoping to put smiles on the faces of deprived children through a Christmas gift appeal. Donna Telford, manager of Winter Stream Farm on Old Gloucester Road, has put gift tags with the names and ages of underprivileged children in the local area on a Christmas tree in the car park of the pub and
Continue reading
Bus passengers in Bradley Stoke who purchase First’s Inner Zone Day Rider ticket have been stung with a 10 per cent fare hike that came into effect on 30th November. The news comes at a time when reliability and punctuality on the 73, X73 and X74 services seems to have reached an all-time low, with more than a hundred complaints
Continue reading
Dear Sir, I am a 16-year-old apprentice living in Bradley Stoke but working in Charfield. I have to make the daily journey to Charfield by bus. I have been catching buses to Charfield since September and the services are never good. My previous bus service (310/311) was revoked by First Bus and they put the 82 service in its place. Ever
Continue reading
The appearance of scores of colourful knitted bobble hats on bollards and sign posts in north Bradley Stoke at the end of October proved a big hit with local residents, many of whom took to social media to praise the efforts of a mystery group of ‘yarn bombers’ said to be behind the initiative. The bobble hat ‘attack’ was centred
Continue reading
The December 2014 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine has been dropping on doormats this weekend. Top stories in this month’s 40-page magazine include the ‘Bobbly Stoke’ yarn bombing attack, the Willow Brook Centre Christmas lights switch-on event with Ben Faulks (a.k.a CBeebies’ Mr Bloom) and the launch of the latest public consultation on the MetroBus scheme that will see
Continue reading
Bradley Stoke residents will be getting into the festive spirit next week as they’re treated to free mince pies and mulled wine at a Christmas celebration. On Saturday 13th December, local families are invited to the Bridge Community Church Carol Service – a free family festive singalong at Bradley Stoke Community School. Running from 4pm to 6pm, the afternoon will
Continue reading