The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke has won the national Shopping Centre SCEPTRE Award for Waste Management. The winners of the 2013 SCEPTRE Awards were announced at a gala dinner on Tuesday 26th June at The Dorchester Hotel in London. The Waste Management category is highly coveted and the Willow Brook Centre was up against some of the largest
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Hopes that Bradley Stoke might be amongst the first areas in South Gloucestershire to benefit from a programme of government investment in superfast broadband infrastructure were dashed last month when South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) announced that the rural communities of Pucklechurch and Wick have been chosen to receive the upgrade in the first phase of the project. Bradley Stoke broadband
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Bradley Stoke Cricket Club’s second XI faced Chipping Sodbury on Saturday at the Baileys Court cricket ground in a very close contest which they won by three wickets, the game going down to the last over. Bradley Stoke fielded first and did well by restricting Chipping Sodbury to no more than 210. They finished on 207-4 at the end of
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Police have sealed off an area on the north side of the “duck pond” in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve and a Crime Scene Investigation unit is at the scene, following the discovery of a body earlier today. At midday, a total of ten police vehicles were parked at the lake or in nearby Juniper Way, where an
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There’s a busy programme of community events taking place in Bradley Stoke this coming weekend, with something to interest all ages. Hundreds are expected to attend the Bliss Charity Buggy Push, leaving from Brook Way Activity Centre at 10am on Saturday and returning for a teddy bears’ picnic, cake sale and refreshments between 11am and 1am. The event will raise
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Bradley Stoke Cricket Club’s First XI sealed their third win in a row with a thumping 120 run over Nailsea on Saturday (22nd June). Struggling at 38 for 4, the home side made a competitive 204 with Mankar top scoring with 58 and Davis with 47. Nailsea’s reply never got going and they were eventually bowled out for 84, with
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Plans announced last week to turn two granite gate posts in the Town Square at the Willow Brook shopping centre into a war memorial for Bradley Stoke have attracted ridicule in the national press because no resident of the town has been killed in military action. The project, promoted by the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group and Cllr Ben Walker,
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Bradley Stoke is once again looking forward to its annual Bliss Buggy Push event, where parents take buggies and prams out on a walk through the town in order to raise money for babies born prematurely. The event was started off in this area for the first time last year by Kerry Robinson, mum of two. Kerry’s inspiration for drawing
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Bradley Stoke Cricket Club’s First XI, who play in the Bristol & District Senior Division, beat second in the table Hanham by 32 runs on Saturday afternoon at the Baileys Court cricket ground in Bradley Stoke. Bradley Stoke lost the toss and were put into bat, and, with Joe Coles only making 38 and his partner Adam Davis only scoring
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A planning application for the construction of a Tesco ‘Click & Collect’ unit in the car park of Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre has been withdrawn following objections about its proximity to nearby residential properties. The supermarket giant had wanted to build the customer collection ‘pod’ at a site on the northern boundary of the car park, immediately behind
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