A Bradley Stoke Town Councillor and former Mayor has resigned her seat just two months after announcing that she had dumped the Conservatives to become independent. Cllr Charlotte Walker was elected under the Conservative banner to represent the Lakeside parish ward in May 2011 and served as Mayor during the administrative year 2012/13. In doing so, she followed in the footsteps
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has wasted no time in getting to work on the installation of a new modular classroom block at Meadowbrook Primary School in Bradley Stoke. Less than 24 hours after the summer term ended, a large crane today began hoisting two temporary classrooms into position on the school’s playground. As reported in The Journal earlier this year, the
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Bradley Stoke Cricket Club’s (BSCC’s) First XI suffered a heavy defeat away to local rivals Almondsbury at the weekend. The team lost by a margin of 104 runs as they were skittled out for 90, with opener Adam Davis’ 30 the only score of note. Earlier Wayne Passmore and Bhushan Mankar contributed four wickets each to bowl Almondsbury out for
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The death of a man whose body was found in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve on Tuesday 2nd July is “in no way suspicious” says a local police inspector. In a piece written for the August edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine, Inspector Bob Evely gives an assurance that the incident has no relevance for community safety. Inspector
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The Bradley Stoke In Bloom (BSiB) group is gearing up for its first project this coming Saturday (20th July) when the volunteers are planning to neaten up the public pathway that runs from Dewfalls Drive, through Wheatfield Drive and down to the edge of The Common East. Everyone is welcome to meet us at the Dewfalls Drive end of the
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The emergency services were called to two road traffic accidents in the vicinity of the Willow Brook Centre last weekend. The first incident, on Saturday (13th July), is reported to have occurred on the zebra crossing on the access road into the shopping centre, close to the Tesco petrol station. Traffic coming in and out of the centre was gridlocked
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Supermarket giant Tesco has submitted a second planning application for a ‘Click & Collect’ unit in the car park of Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre, six weeks after withdrawing a previous application that was criticised by the town council for being “against the spirit of the original planning permission for the site”. The ‘Click & Collect’ service allows customers
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A giant sculpture of the animated film character Gromit (of Wallace & Gromit fame) is drawing the crowds to the grounds of a Bradley Stoke accountancy firm’s office in Woodlands Lane. Dunkley’s Chartered Accountants and Auditors, based at Woodlands Grange, have sponsored one of 80 Gromit sculptures placed at sites around Bristol as part of a ten-week-long charity fundraising event.
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The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke is hosting an exclusive preview concert tomorrow (Friday 12th July), ahead of the weekend’s popular Southmead Festival. Headlining will be Ronan Parke, the runner-up in the fifth series of Britain’s Got Talent, who is now performing all over the world to millions of fans. Joining Ronan are acts including the fresh and hot
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Saturday afternoon at the Baileys Court cricket ground saw Bradley Stoke CC First XI lose out to Bristol YMCA, who currently sit at the top of the Senior Division. Bradley Stoke could not reach the total of 219 set by YMCA in the first innings. The big total was helped by the opening pair of Keith Milsom and Wayne Butler
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