Local MP Jack Lopresti recently visited the Leisure Centre and Library in Bradley Stoke to view the facilities and meet managers at the Circadian Trust, which runs leisure facilities across South Gloucestershire. The Leisure Centre has grown over the years from very small beginnings, and now includes Bradley Stoke Library, a hairdressers and a café, in addition to the swimming
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The Peacocks store at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre has ceased trading today with the loss of 16 jobs. The troubled fashion group went into administration on 18th January after failing to restructure debits of £240m. Peacocks stores around the country had continued to trade since then whilst administrators at KPMG sought a buyer. A press release put out by
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Entries have now opened for the 2012 renewal of the Bradley Stoke 10k Run, to be held on Sunday 3rd 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. The race route [map] takes in much of the Three Brooks
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Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP) has announced its programme of events to celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) in the Bradley Stoke, Filton, Patchway and Stoke Gifford areas. Events will run from Monday 5th March to Friday 16th March and include coffee mornings, poetry readings and workshops on topics ranging from photography and painting to self defence and even
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The raised zebra crossing is now finished, and what an utter waste of money. I stood and watched for a few minutes on Friday 17th February and not one driver even slightly slowed down. I’m sure we all knew it wouldn’t work (except the Council). The real answer is a light controlled crossing, however, it is only normally used by
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Local campaigners and trade unions are staging a march to protest against the closure of Filton Airfield on Saturday (18th February). The Save Filton Airfield (SFA) group and the Unite union are inviting demonstrators to join them on Golf Course Lane at 12pm (more details here in the Filton Journal). The airfield is due to close by the end of
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Bristol Zoo’s last Wow! Gorilla (No. 62) has found its home at Dunkley’s Chartered Accountants in Bradley Stoke. No. 62 was the last unpainted full-sized Wow! Gorilla from Bristol Zoo’s Wow! Gorillas Campaign last year that raised well over £400,000 for vital gorilla conservation work and for the local Bristol charity Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Appeal. The gorilla sculpture was
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The Woods estate agency in Bradley Stoke has submitted a planning application to expand its premises. The branch, housed in the same building as Aldi (off Ferndene), would see its floorspace increased by a third – from 75sqm to 100sqm should the application get the go-ahead from planners. The extra space will be created by adding a 4.6m wide single-storey
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Bike theft, racial abuse and drugs are the main topics of local interest in the latest police newsletter for the Severnside, Stokes & Villages area. It is reported that fifteen suspects were arrested last year following a spate of bike thefts from outside leisure centres, youth clubs, schools. colleges and shops in Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke and Stoke Gifford during
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has moved to clear up confusion over the status of a number of consultations relating to proposed road safety improvement measures on Bradley Stoke Way. The Council had drawn criticism over the delay in publishing the results of its original consultation, held from 20th December 2011 to 8th January 2012, and the fact that it had
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