Enter our exclusive free prize draw by Sunday 27th April 2014 for a chance of winning one of five £100 vouchers to spend on shoes at Brantano. To celebrate the launch of its Get Measured for Tommy’s campaign, Brantano has teamed up with the Bradley Stoke Journal to offer readers the chance to win one of five £100 of vouchers
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The new manager of Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre, Andy Wynn, says he has enjoyed meeting representatives of the local community since his arrival in the town back in February, when he took over from Scott Lahive, who had been in post since the centre first opened its doors in October 2008. Andy, 34, who commutes daily from Swindon,
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Not sure what to do with the kids this Easter? After three years of successfully organising a family Easter Ride, the Stokes Cycling Club are becoming pros and are raring to go for the next one. The event is completely FREE and if you are stuck with ideas of what to do with the kids on Easter Sunday then come
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An ‘owltastic’ time was had by all at the Bradley Stoke Wise Owls Club Open Day on Saturday 29th March. Children enjoyed arts and craft activities, including making Mother’s Day gifts and cards. Parents were able to tour the fantastic facilities and meet the team at Bradley Stoke Wise Owls Club. They finished the afternoon with an owls and birds
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has given “in principle” agreement to a proposed package of measures that would allow pupils to access Stoke Lodge Primary School through a new gate from the Jubilee Centre site. Representatives of the school and South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) attending a council meeting on 12th March said the new gate, combined with a new footpath linking
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A public consultation which asked for ideas on possible future uses for the “underused” hard court area at the Brook Way Activity Centre has found an “overwhelming” demand for increased car parking provision at the shared community centre and doctors’ surgery site. The survey was called after council members failed to support Mayor Brian Hopkinson’s demand, at a meeting last
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Children will be able to meet a prehistoric visitor this week when Tiny the stegosaurus comes to the Willow Brook shopping centre in Bradley Stoke. Tiny, a rather playful 125-million-year-young dinosaur, will be performing three shows at the Willow Brook Centre on Wednesday 16th April – at 11am, 12.30pm and 2pm. Children will be able to meet her, feed her and
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Timetable changes introduced today (Sunday 13th April) have left Bradley Stoke with two fewer bus services and seen off-peak journeys axed on a third route. Wessex Connect has cancelled the 482 and 483 services, which provided a direct connection from Bradley Stoke to Winterbourne, Frampton Cotterell, Yate and Chipping Sodbury. The move leaves two sets of bus stops (one on
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This Sunday (13th April), twelve local women from the Sole Sisters running club will be lining up to run the London Marathon, five of them for the very first time. Penny Greenwood, Liz Naude, Linda Millward, Amy Seymour, Rebecca Mitchell, and Kate Stuart will be joined by first-time marathon runners, Helen Smith, Jo Radford, Lisa Morris, Leona Mills, Michelle Lord
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Twenty budding young gardeners have volunteered to create a community garden at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre during the Easter holidays. The shopping centre is hosting the planting day on Friday (11th April) as part of its involvement in Dreamscheme, an initiative that encourages local young people to do something positive for the community. The volunteers will be rewarded for
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