Cyclists in the Bristol area are being urged to sign up and set their wheels in motion to raise money for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research at the Martin Dean Bristol Bikeathon on 21st September 2014. Over 100 riders are expected to take part in the event at the Willow Brook Centre, Bradley Stoke and turn their pedal power into cash
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) appears to have bucked the national trend in A-level results by maintaining its average points score per entry from last year of 208 and achieving a big increase in average points per student to 733 (683 last year). Executive headteacher Dave Baker said there were some phenomenal individual successes at both A2 and AS levels,
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A collection of office buildings on a large site in north Bradley Stoke looks set to be demolished to make way for a care home after South Gloucestershire Council granted outline planning permission for a proposed redevelopment scheme. Under the plans, Fountain Court, a group of five two-storey office blocks on the north side of Woodlands Lane, located between Woodlands
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Police are appealing for witnesses to help their investigation into a fight which began on the number 73 bus at about 1.50am on Sunday 10th August. The bus was travelling from Stokes Croft to Bradley Stoke There was an altercation on the top deck of the bus shortly before it stopped in Marjoram Place, Bradley Stoke. When the bus stopped,
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South Gloucestershire has received £60,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for its ‘South Gloucestershire and the First World War’ project, which includes a touring exhibition that will visit Bradley Stoke for four weeks from 1st September. The First World War Centenary project will involve local community heritage organisations working with South Gloucestershire Council to improve public engagement with the
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Our 30-hour BioBlitz marathon started on the morning of Friday 4th July with 200 schoolchildren from local primary schools (Stoke Lodge, Holy Family, Wheatfield and Holy Trinity) joining expert naturalists, scientists and volunteers in a real life scientific survey of the wildlife of the Three Brooks Nature Reserve. Most members of the conservation group were able to take a day
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Work is now under way to bring superfast fibre broadband to hundreds of premises on ‘exchange only’ (EO) telephone lines in Bradley Stoke. Homes connected via EO lines have, until now, seen no benefit from South Gloucestershire Council’s state-subsidised infrastructure upgrade programme, which has initially focussed on upgrading existing street cabinets using ‘fibre to the cabinet’ (FTTC) technology. In order
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People who park illegally or inconsiderately in Bradley Stoke could find photos of their vehicles posted in an online ‘hall of shame’ that has been set up by an anonymous group of concerned residents. The ‘Park It Right Bradley Stoke’ Facebook page, which posted its first photos on 16th July, mimics a similarly named page set up in Lowestoft, Suffolk,
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The August 2014 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine will be dropping on doormats this weekend. This issue features two stories where ‘people power’ has forced the reversal of unpopular decisions: The town council’s controversial multiple food trader policy and Tesco’s reported attempt to “block” a popular independent ‘fruit & veg’ stall from trading in the town square at
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There’s a busy weekend of community events ahead in Bradley Stoke, with the dedication of the town’s new war memorial and a World War One commemoration service in the town square on Saturday morning (2nd August), followed by the annual Ben Walker/BSTFC pro-celebrity charity football match on Sunday (3rd August). On Saturday, a uniformed parade (formed of members of 1st
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