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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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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