The days of frustratingly-slow broadband connections look set to come to an end within the next couple of weeks for some lucky subscribers on 01454 telephone numbers in Bradley Stoke, after internet service providers (ISPs) began taking orders for superfast fibre broadband. Journal readers connected to cabinet numbers 22 (Brook Way) and 35 (Webbs Wood Road) have today (26th March)
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Street lights in Bradley Stoke that are currently switched off at around midnight look set to be left on for an extra hour each night, after Labour councillors negotiated an extra £50,000 of expenditure in South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) revenue budget for 2014/15. A party spokesperson said the concession was being made in response to “widespread concern from residents about
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Bradley Stoke based youth group South West Winterguard Academy is staging a ‘community showcase’ event on Saturday 5th April at Thornbury Leisure Centre. The aim of the event is to demonstrate to the people of South Gloucestershire the diverse range of sport, dance and arts activities available to them. Some of the acts already confirmed are Odyssey Dance Troop, PUMA
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Bradley Stoke residents are being invited to create a will “for free”, in return for a suggested donation to the local air ambulance service. Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) provides an air ambulance service for the 2.1m people of Bristol, Bath, North Somerset and the surrounding counties. In a show of support, solicitors across its coverage area have agreed
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Households in Bradley Stoke which have decided not to subscribe to South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) new chargeable garden waste collection service will have their green bins emptied for the final time over the next fortnight. The council’s opt-in £36 p.a. charge for emptying the green bin comes into force on 31st March, and with the bins being emptied on a
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More than £8,500 has been given away to shoppers at the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke during a four-week promotion that started in early February. Customers were given the chance to win one of a number of guaranteed prizes on offer, including £500 Tesco gift cards. Matt McNay was the first lucky customer to bag £500 worth of Tesco gift
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The weather looks set fair for the Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB) group’s Big Spring Clean and March workday tomorrow (Saturday 15th March). Why not get involved and help improve your local neighbourhood? Here’s what Gillian Rodger and Sara Messenger wrote about tomorrow’s event in the March edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine: Our next workday will be held
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The car parking situation at Bradley Stoke Surgery has improved significantly after staff at the doctors’ practice were told, in January, that it would become a “disciplinary offence” to park on the site, a meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Planning Committee has heard. Patients of the surgery had complained that they were finding it impossible to find a parking
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The police and ambulance services attended a road traffic collision in Savages Wood Road early this morning, after a vehicle travelling eastbound ploughed into a van parked in front of the Hornbeam Close flats. The incident (pictured above), which involved a green Vauxhall Corsa and a white Vauxhall van, occurred at around 6.40am, in foggy conditions. The owner of the
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Local police say they are appealing for witnesses following an attempted robbery in the Bradley Stoke area last weekend. The incident happened between 10.30pm and 10.45pm outside 55-57 Oaktree Crescent on Saturday (8th March) when a man approached a number of Asian people and was racially abusive and threatening before asking them for money. When they refused, he threw the
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