In this article first published in our May magazine, Derrick Powell, Bradley Stoke Community Speed Watch Coordinator (pictured above, left), describes how the group operates and what its objectives are. We organise teams comprised of a minimum of three volunteers to conduct speed watches on the roads in and around Bradley Stoke. We work in conjunction with the police and are
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A dramatic incident which saw a herd of cows escape from an overturned trailer and run loose through the streets of Bradley Stoke for over two hours hit the national headlines over the bank holiday weekend. The drama started when a trailer transporting the cattle overturned at ‘Rabbit Roundabout’ (junction of Bradley Stoke Way and Winterbourne Road) at around 12.15pm
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Bradley Stoke Mayor Brian Hopkinson’s plan to see multiple food traders in the car parks of the town council’s three community centres suffered a serious setback during April after two key votes went against him. Cllr Hopkinson has been strongly promoting the idea since it was first raised at the council’s Strategic Planning Meeting last September and it was unanimously
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The May 2014 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine has been dropping on doormats this weekend. This month’s feature story concerns the Bradley Stoke Community Speed Watch, which is now up and running. Coordinator Derek Powell is inviting any local residents with concerns about speeding to contact him on 07900 843268. The date for this year’s Bradley Stoke Carnival,
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The opening day of the Trench Lane Car Boot Sale for the 2014 season has been put back by a week due to wet conditions at the site. The popular car boot sale that takes place just over the motorway bridge from Bradley Stoke [map] was due to start again on Sunday (4th May), but the organisers have postponed the
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With the 2013/14 football season drawing to a close, Bradley Stoke Town FC’s (BSTFC’s) teams are due to play their final games at the Jubilee Centre [BS32 8HL] over the next few days. On Thursday (1st May), the First Team is at home to Chipping Sodbury, with a 6.30pm kick-off. A win would cement a third place position with the expectation
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Students from two local schools will be staging a unique dance performance at the Willow Brook shopping centre in Bradley Stoke on Monday afternoon (28th April). The student dancers, from Meadowbrook Primary School and Patchway Community College, will be wearing colourful costumes and performing fun, contemporary dances with a retro 60s teenager theme. The performance lasts around 10 minutes and will be staged
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Students and staff at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) have raised more that £1,400 for a charity that promotes organ donation and post-transplant activities. The money was raised in memory of Sarah Port, a BSCS student who sadly passed away last summer whilst on holiday with her family. Kevin Mashford, a representative of Transplant Sport, attended a Year 9 assembly
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has been successful in obtaining £200,000 from South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) towards the cost of building a replacement skate park at a new location within the grounds of Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre. The council favours an ‘in situ spray concrete’ design for the new park, which is said to have greatly reduced repair and maintenance costs
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If you’ve been to Bradley Stoke Library this week you may have seen whispered conversations, furtive scurrying and plain brown boxes being quietly passed from one hand to another and wondered what was going on! The answer would be that World Book Night is again coming to Bradley Stoke. World Book Night, which takes place on Wednesday 23rd April, is the
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