The group behind a plan to create a war memorial out of the two granite posts in the Town Square at the Willow Brook Centre has applied for a £3k grant towards an alternative “standalone stone memorial of contemporary design”. The move comes five months after the original plans, which involved mounting black plaques onto the existing granite posts, were
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To mark the Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB) group’s first six months, there will be a public meeting at the Jubilee Centre on Tuesday (26th November), starting at 7.30pm. As well as sharing mince pies and non-alcoholic mulled wine, the group will be sharing their progress to date and their (ambitious) plans for the future. There will also be an
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Bat detectors are available to borrow from Bradley Stoke Library and each detector now comes with a field guide and a leaflet on bat detecting in Bradley Stoke. The leaflet was written by Gill Smith (committee member of the Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group) and John Morris (South Gloucestershire Council) and contains information on bats and a map showing the
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The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke has won a Green Apple Environment Award in the national campaign to find Britain’s greenest companies, councils and communities. It competed against more than 500 other nominations and Centre Manager Scott Lahive and Joy Souch, Centre Administrator, were presented with the award at a glittering ceremony in the House of Commons on Monday
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Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB) is going from strength to strength with two recent big achievements, write group members Geoff Roach and Sara Messenger. We are taking part in the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) ‘In Your Neighbourhood’ scheme, which provides smaller volunteer-led community groups, such as ourselves, the opportunity to get involved with the wider Britain in Bloom initiative (which celebrates
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Hopes that people living in one of Bradley Stoke’s broadband ‘slow spots’ might be able to subscribe to new superfast (24Mbps+) services in time for Christmas have been dashed after BT quietly put back the ‘first order’ date to the end of the year. The telecommunications giant announced in April 2011 that it would be upgrading its Filton telephone exchange
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The Bradley Stoke Journal’s Facebook page reached a new milestone this week when it sailed through the 2,000 ‘likes’ mark. The achievement is the latest recognition of The Journal’s popularity and represents a two-fold increase in ‘fans’ since we launched our monthly print magazine in May. The Journal’s Twitter feed has also seen a big increase in followers, breaching the
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Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre stages it Christmas lights switch-on event tomorrow (Saturday 16th November) between 2pm and 6.15pm. Star attraction is the popular children’s TV character Mike the Knight, who will be making appearances at intervals between 2pm and 5.30pm. Santa will be arriving in the square at 2pm in a vintage Morgan replica (weather permitting), rather than
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Recent poor weather in Bradley Stoke and other local areas stopped local sport over the weekend due to waterlogged pitches and other poor conditions. All four Bradley Stoke Town FC Saturday teams’ games were cancelled, two of which were due to be played at the Jubilee Centre. Rain and boggy football pitches also restricted the amount of youth football on
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Tenders for the construction of a replacement skate park on a new site within the grounds of Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre could be sought within months after the project received the backing of South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) Policy and Resources Committee. The future of the skate park had been in doubt after Circadian Trust, which runs the leisure centre on
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