To celebrate opening a new study centre at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke, the Kumon Education Centre is hosting a Family Open Day on Saturday (19th October) between 11am and 3pm. Kumon Educational is the UK’s largest supplementary education provider and already has its regional head office at the Willow Brook Centre. It was established in 1958 and offers
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Two-year-old from Bradley Stoke completes challenge despite undergoing chemotherapy. In the August edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine, we wrote about Jessica Abrahams’ sponsored challenge to visit all 80 sculptures in the Gromit Unleashed public art exhibition. Here, Jessica’s mum Melissa has written to tell us how she got on. I’m pleased to say that Jessica completed her Gromit
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Conservative candidate Benjamin Randles has been declared the winner of yesterday’s by-election in the Lakeside parish ward of Bradley Stoke. Mr Randles, with 253 votes, finished well ahead of Derrick Powell (UKIP), with 97 votes, and Sarah Drake (Liberal Democrat), with 72. The Labour Party did not put up a candidate. With 1,972 people entitled to vote, the turnout was
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Last weekend, Bradley Stoke Town FC’s B Team earned a point when former league champions Dodington FC came to the Jubilee field to face the home side in a close encounter that eventually ended in a 1-1 draw. The teams were close all the way through the first half with neither team creating chances of their own – Bradley Stoke
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The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke has been shortlisted for a CIWM Environmental Excellence Award. The CIWM Awards recognise and reward performance and achievement in waste and resource management, both within the waste industry and in relevant commercial sectors, such as facilities management, retail and construction. Hosted by wildlife television presenter, Michaela Strachan, the awards ceremony will take place
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Officers at Bradley Stoke Town Council have been asked to produce a detailed report on possible future uses for the hard court area at the Brook Way Activity Centre after Mayor Brian Hopkinson failed to gain support for a proposal to allow a local charity to build on the land. An innocuous-sounding item on the agenda for last month’s Full
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Bradley Stoke residents will have to start paying an annual fee of £36 from next April if they want the council to continue emptying their green bins. South Gloucestershire Council’s Communities Committee, meeting on 10th September, voted to introduce the charge, which had been put forward as an option in the council’s draft waste management strategy for the period 2013-19.
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The October 2013 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine will be dropping on doormats this weekend. This issue features the news that around 3,500 homes in Bradley Stoke look set to get faster broadband from next summer, thanks to investment from central government, South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) and BT. Households on 01454 telephone numbers in areas of the town
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Two local netball teams were in action at the University of the West of England (UWE) over the weekend. First on court was Bradley Stoke Netball Club’s First Team in a Division 1 match against Winterbourne. Bradley Stoke won the game 49-38 and were pleased with their positive performance. They have had a good start to the season, picking up
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The by-election for a vacant seat on Bradley Stoke Town Council will be a three-way fight between candidates from the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and UKIP parties. The vacancy arose due to the resignation of former Mayor Charlotte Walker (Independent), who revealed in her letter of resignation that she has been “studying away from the town for some time” and now
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