Work is finally under way to bring faster broadband services to the first of around 3,500 homes in Bradley Stoke that are connected to the Almondsbury telephone exchange (serving 01454 numbers) and have no access to the Virgin Media cable network. The homes that will benefit lie within ‘intervention areas’ in which BT, Virgin Media and other prospective network providers
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The Bradley Stoke Youth FC (BSYFC) Under-11 Girls managed to get their game moved to the Gloucestershire FA artificial pitch at Oakland Park (Almondsbury) on Sunday so they could play Whitchurch, a team they have beaten 14-0 and 5-1 already this season, and they successfully made it three wins out of three with a 4-1 victory. After a long period
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Entries have now opened for the 2014 renewal of the Bradley Stoke 10k Run, to be held on Sunday 8th June as part of the town’s Community Festival. Organised by local ladies-only running club Sole Sisters, the race starts and finishes at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road, where there will also be free car parking, showers, toilets and
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Scott Lahive, manager of the Willow Brook Centre (Bradley Stoke’s “shopping and town centre”) since it opened in October 2008, has moved on to pastures new after six years in the job. Journal editor Stephen Horton caught up with Mr Lahive in mid-January, as he prepared to hand over the reins to his successor in early February. When did you
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Bradley Stoke’s only banking facility, the Santander agency branch at the Willow Brook Centre, is to close “within six months”, The Journal has learned. A reader with an account at the branch contacted us yesterday (Thursday 13th February) to say she had received a letter stating that the Bradley Stoke branch would be closing “later this year”. The news was
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The Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke is set to launch a Click & Collect service next week, enabling customers to collect pre-ordered groceries from a ‘pod’ (kiosk) in the car park of the Willow Brook Centre. The pod has been constructed over the last few weeks at a location on the northern edge of the car park, to the
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Residents of an apartment complex in Bradley Stoke, who claim they have been provided with only half the number of car parking spaces than are actually needed, have appealed to the town council for help. Representatives of the residents’ association at Brook Court, a 50-unit ‘later living’ development recently constructed on Savages Wood Road, near the Three Brooks public house,
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The Journal is pleased to announce that Rebecca Oatway is the lucky winner of our exclusive January prize draw to win a six month supply of Husse pet food. The first instalment of Rebecca’s prize, a 15kg bag of pro-biotic salmon & rice pellets, was presented to Rebecca and her 9-month old golden retriever Charlie by Husse North Bristol’s Eva
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Local residents have a chance to find out more about South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) vision for a 5,700 home ‘new neighbourhood’ on and around the former Filton Airfield site at an exhibition being held today (Thursday 6th February) in Patchway. The council is currently staging a public consultation on its draft Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) for the Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood,
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The manager of the Hollow Tree public house and restaurant in Brook Way, Bradley Stoke, has claimed that his business is losing up to £500 of potential trade a day because staff and customers of neighbouring businesses are using his pub’s car park without permission, leaving no space for patrons of the pub during the peak hours of 12pm –4pm. Speaking
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