Young people from the Bradley Stoke area are actively planning and organising a two day skate event during the upcoming Community Festival weekend of Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th June. On the Saturday there will be a 5 foot high half pipe on the main festival site at Jubilee Green and on the Sunday the half pipe will move to
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A secondary school student from Bradley Stoke and his pal from South Wales are the bookies’ favourite to win the final of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent show, which takes place on Saturday (7th June). Charlie Lenehan, 15, a student at Winterbourne International Academy, along with his friend Leondre Devries, 13, who together form the rap/singing duo Bars and Melody, are currently 5-4 favourites with Ladbrokes
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has agreed to investigate an option for providing ‘pay car parking’ in the centre of Bradley Stoke after being approached by residents of the Brook Court ‘later living’ apartment complex, where there is an acknowledged shortage of parking spaces. Roger Grimshaw, secretary of the residents’ association at Brook Court, originally approached the town council back in
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The June 2014 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine will be dropping on doormats this weekend. The lead story in this month’s 40-page edition is a look back at the “cows run amok in city streets” incident that put Bradley Stoke in the national headlines at the beginning of May, complete with photos from Journal readers. Well done to
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The Bradley Stoke Journal has vacancies for deliverers of its monthly magazine, distributed on the first weekend of every month. We have an immediate vacancy for a deliverer to service a round in north Bradley Stoke, covering streets that include Campion Drive and Brackendene. This would suit someone who lives in that part of Bradley Stoke. Minimum age: 14. We
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Shoppers at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke are in for a treat when they get the chance to meet a real superstar in the flesh – or rather in the metal – Titan the Robot. The towering robot is coming to Willow Brook this half-term on Thursday (29th May) to perform three shows – at 11am, 12.30pm and 2pm.
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A formal planning application has been submitted to South Gloucestershire Council for the erection of a new primary school within the grounds of Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS). As previously reported in The Journal, the new ‘primary phase’ building will be located on an area of land that is currently used as a secondary car park, located between the school’s
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An elderly woman has died after discovering that her home in Bradley Stoke had been burgled. Police say they were called at 12.39pm on Thursday 22nd May to a report of a burglary at a house in Oaktree Crescent. The householders were away and the call was made by a relative who checked on the property and found the door
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Volunteers are being sought to help out at Bristol’s new visitor attraction – The Wild Place Project, near Cribbs Causeway. The park opened six months ago and currently has around 30 part-time volunteers, who offer their time in a variety of ways: from manning the lemur walk-through enclosure to talking to guests in the ‘woodman’s hut’ in the new Wolf Wood
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I’m wondering if anyone has addressed/explained the issue of police(?) helicopters circling overhead in the early hours in Bradley Stoke? Does anyone else find it annoying/deafening? I find it extremely disturbing, terrifying even, to be woken up by the thunderous noise of it circling, then going away and coming back. It seems to be so close. It’s really nerve-racking, making me
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