The installation of a new light-controlled pedestrian crossing on Bradley Stoke Way looks set to go ahead following a decision by an Executive Councillor to ignore six objections received during a public consultation. South Gloucestershire Council drew up plans for the new crossing, together with a reduction in speed limit from 40mph to 30mph and the installation of a new
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A popular car boot sale that takes place near Bradley Stoke is to re-open for the 2012 season at the beginning of May. The Trench Lane Boot Sale, held on Sundays on a farmland site opposite the entrance to Woodlands Golf Club [map], will open for the first time this year on Sunday 6th May 2012. UPDATE: Re-opening postponed until
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Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre kicks off a busy programme of holiday events tomorrow (Thursday 5th) with an Easter Fun Day from 11am to 4pm, featuring animals from St Werburghs City Farm. Chicks, lambs and bunnies will be there together with some more exotic creatures including a tarantula, scorpion and giant stick insects from Bristol Zoo’s outreach project. The Easter
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A group of Bradley Stoke residents and some of their friends are in training for a 142-mile sponsored walk that they hope will raise thousands of pounds for a local children’s charity. “Ryan’s Ramblers”, headed by Steve Tovey of Huckley Way, are aiming to raise over £6,000 for Children’s Hospice South West, which supports children and their families who are
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BT Openreach has announced that subscribers served by the Filton telephone exchange are now able to place orders for superfast fibre broaband but there remains doubt as to how many homes in Bradley Stoke on 0117 lines will be able to benefit from the new technology. The company announced in April last year that Filton would be upgraded in 2012
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Bus service changes being proposed by Wessex Connect look set to leave the whole of Bradley Stoke South without a daytime bus service for six days of the week. In a press release put out today, the bus company has announced its intention to withdraw services U7, U7A. U8 and the Monday-Saturday service of the 482/483, with effect from Sunday
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Traffic congestion built up around the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke this lunchtime as motorists fearing petrol shortages queued to fill up at the Tesco garage. The queue of vehicles waiting to enter the filling station stretched back to the Three Brooks Roundabout and traffic leaving the centre slowed to a crawl as Tesco staff battled to control the
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A Bradley Stoke bus shelter has been “creatively dressed” as part of a stunt to celebrate the official launch of ten new showcase bus routes across the West of England. The shelter at the Bradley Stoke Surgery bus stop (northbound) on Brook Way has been decorated with an image of a sofa and two hanging pictures. It is one of
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A lab technician at a Bradley Stoke opticians had his legs waxed for charity on Saturday (24th March). Aaron Carter, lab technician at Specsavers in The Willow Brook Centre, had his legs stripped bare of hair to help raise money for Bristol hospital charity Above & Beyond. Mr Carter’s hair-raising efforts are part of a 12-month fundraising initiative for Above
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Mark Heyes and Andrew Barton returned to the Mall at Cribbs Causeway this week for 18 live catwalk shows staged as part of Bristol Fashion Week (BFW). Spread across five days, from 21st – 25th March, BFW allows fashion lovers to indulge in fashion, style and pampering. Guests can sample the delights of an Marks and Spencer 50’s style champagne
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