On Sunday morning there was some excellent football on show at St Ursula’s Academy where league leaders Bradley Stoke Youth FC’s Under-10 Girls took on a third place Westbury Foxes side in a game to secure second place in the Bristol Girls’ League. The game started really brightly with both teams having a chance to attack. Kayleigh Jennings coming close
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The areas in Bradley Stoke that are likely to benefit from state-aided investment in broadband infrastructure have been revealed in a detailed map released by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). The council, working in partnership with BT and Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), is planning to invest £2.2 million to improve broadband speeds across South Gloucestershire by March 2016. Until now, SGC
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A local charity is appealing for supporters to abseil Avon Gorge and raise money to help people living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The abseil, on Saturday 11th May, will see 50 people taking on this 90 foot cliff face, each raising money to support the West of England MS Therapy Centre in Bradley Stoke. You’ll need nerves of steel as
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A few weeks ago, a council survey got people thinking and talking about their local area. The survey showed that the council wanted to hear the views of local residents on a number of matters. We thought it was a great idea to continue the theme of giving voice to the community in our own way. In these Vox Pop
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After their outstanding victory last week against Portville Warriors, the Bradley Stoke Town FC (BSTFC) First Feam took on Talbot Knowle who are comfortably sitting in second place. It was an excellent game that saw Bradley Stoke claim three points, with a 1-0 win, after some magnificent defending. Just five minutes into the first half, Talbot Knowle hit the post
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A surge in applications for September 2013 entry at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has left scores of parents frustrated at not being able to get their children into the town’s only secondary school. The school has been oversubscribed in almost every year since it opened in 2005, resulting in many local children having to travel to centres in neighbouring
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Police are inviting local residents to attend the next Neighbourhood Watch meeting on Tuesday 5th March, from 7:30pm, at the Jubilee Centre. The neighbourhood team will be there to explain more about the scheme and how you can get involved. The meeting is also a chance for current Neighbourhood Watch coordinators and volunteers to meet up. According to the police,
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The Panasonic store at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre has ceased trading in mysterious circumstances. The consumer electronics shop located near the Town Square entrance to the mall closed on Sunday for what was advertised as a two-day period of “stock taking and refurbishment” but has failed to re-open this week. Investigations by The Journal have revealed that references
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Entries have now opened for the 2013 renewal of the Bradley Stoke 10k Run, to be held on Sunday 9th June as part of the town’s Community Festival. Organised by local ladies-only running club Sole Sisters, the race starts and finishes at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. where there will also be free car parking, showers, toilets and
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Local MP Jack Lopresti has welcomed Bradley Stoke’s first-ever residents on a visit to the Houses of Parliament. Mr Lopresti invited Brenda and Roland Cowley, of Stean Bridge Road, for Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQ), a tour of the Palace of Westminster and lunch after reading in a recent newspaper report that they were the first family to move into the
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