Five Bradley Stoke organisations will be hoping to win a share of a £36,036 grant fund at this Tuesday’s meeting of the Southern Brooks Area Forum in Winterbourne. A total of 42 applications totalling £59,611 have been received from organisations in the Bradley Stoke, Filton, Patchway, Stoke Gifford, Winterbourne, Frenchay and Stoke Park areas covered by the Forum. Sticky Fingers
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Somerset wildlife rescue charity Secret World has received a donation of £25,000 from the Bradley Stoke Pets at Home store. Secret World founder Pauline Kidner was at the Bradley Stoke store yesterday (Friday 9th) to receive the cheque, accompanied by two rescue animals from the centre – ‘Hope’ a four-week-old badger cub and ‘Star’ a tawny owl. The grant will
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Local bus operator First Group Bristol has announced that it is to start offering refunds to customers affected by late-running buses. The company is to introduce a new ‘customer promise’ from Sunday 1st April that will allow bus users to claim against First if one of its buses: “… leaves a defined timing point more than one minute early, more
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Local MP Jack Lopresti says he welcomes the “huge interest” shown by Conservative and other candidates in the new Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) posts which are due be elected in November this year. The Filton and Bradley Stoke MP has been given the task of finding potential Tory nominees for the roles, which critics say risks politicising the police
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Bradley Stoke Town Council’s controversial project to build itself a new £400k office is now well under way after excavators moved onto the site at the Jubilee Centre last month. The new office, once completed, will replace premises that the Council currently rents at The Courtyard, within the Almondsbury Business Park in the north of the town. The go-ahead for
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Sliproads that connect the M4 to the M5 within the Almondsbury Interchange are to be closed overnight on seven nights in March. Tonight (Friday 2nd) will see the connections from the M4 eastbound to the M5 northbound/southbound closed from 10pm until 6am tomorrow. On three further nights in March – 3rd/4th, 1oth/11th and 17th/18th (all Saturday night through Sunday morning)
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Occupational Therapy students from the University of the West of England (UWE) spent two days last week at the Brook Way Activity Centre helping the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group check through its camping equipment. The Town Council has allowed the scouts to site a storage container alongside the centre and the group’s outdoor equipment was recently transferred there from
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The newly-built West of England Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Therapy Centre opened its doors to patients for the first time last week, following years of fundraising and planning. Construction on the £1.13 million state-of-the-art treatment centre began in June last year and contractors Elliott UK officially handed over the building earlier this month. Situated between Wheatfield Primary School and Bradley Stoke
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Help bring faster broadband to Bradley Stoke – complete the online surveys by Wednesday! Local residents have just a few more days to complete two crucial surveys that could determine whether Government and Council money will be used to improve the notoriously slow broadband speeds experienced by many residents and businesses in Bradley Stoke. South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has agreed
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Managers at the Willow Brook Centre say they are continuing to “refine and improve” traffic calming measures with the ongoing objective of reducing the speed of vehicles entering and leaving the site, thereby “improving the safety of customers who visit the Centre”. The shopping centre announced its intention to implement measures to “help drivers obey the speed limits” last September
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