The shutters stayed down at the Phones 4u store in Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre today (Monday 15th September) after it was announced that the mobile phone retailer had been put into administration. The picture was the same at more than 550 other Phones 4u stores across the country, leaving a total of 5,595 employees (including those at concessions
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An “annoying beeping noise” heard by hundreds of Bradley Stoke residents since the beginning of September is almost certainly coming from a site on Trench Lane where a massive solar farm is being constructed, The Journal can reveal. The irritating noise has been commented on by more than a hundred readers on The Journal’s Facebook page since 6th September (see
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Residents of properties neighbouring Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Brook Way Activity Centre have voiced concerns that a working group set up to examine ideas gathered in a public consultation on the future of the site is giving too much weight to responses that suggested the construction of a new building. The working group was set up in April, following publication
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South Gloucestershire is gearing up to welcome some of world’s top cyclists as they journey through the district tomorrow (Wednesday 10th September) as part of the Tour of Britain race. Stage 4 of the race stretches from Worcester to Bristol. The riders are expected to enter South Gloucestershire shortly after 2pm as they cycle through Charfield, Cromhall, Bagstone, Rangeworthy, Iron
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The FA Community Shield on Sunday 10th August between Arsenal and Manchester City saw the Bradley Stoke Youth FC (BSYFC) Girls parade around Wembley pitch before kick off. This opportunity of a lifetime was enabled by the close links between Bradley Stoke Youth FC and McDonald’s, who sponsor the FA Community Shield. Just ten clubs from the UK and Ireland
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The September 2014 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine has been dropping on doormats this weekend. This month’s feature story looks at the illegal traveller encampment (the second within the space of two months) that appeared on a grass verge alongside Bradley Stoke Way over the August bank holiday weekend. Mayor John Ashe says he fears travellers now see
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A set of boulders has today been placed on the access ramp leading to a grassed area alongside Bradley Stoke Way that was, on two recent occasions, used as the site of an illegal traveller encampment. The move comes two weeks after defences consisting of four wooden posts and two young trees, installed after the first traveller encampment in June,
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Another round of alterations to Bradley Stoke’s bus services comes into effect this Sunday (31st August), with the withdrawal of one service (Wessex 13), the introduction of another (First X74) and a reduction in the daytime frequency of a third (First 73). The Wessex 13 service, which links the Willow Brook Centre with Bristol city centre via Little Stoke, Stoke
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Students and staff at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) are celebrating another set of “strong” GCSE results, but Executive Headteacher Dave Baker is warning that Department for Education (DfE) performance tables are likely to give the impression that the school has performed worse than in previous years when they are published next January, due to changes in the way the
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Starting secondary school can be a great opportunity for young people to travel independently to school and pupils in Bradley Stoke have been busy preparing for this by taking part in a series of guided ‘transition rides’. Pupils who have achieved their Bikeability level 2 were offered transition rides to help them build their skills in riding the route to
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