The Friends of Jubilee Green (FoJG) are staging their second ‘Summer of Fun’ event between 10am and 12 noon this coming Saturday (20th August) at the Jubilee Centre and Jubilee Green, Savages Wood Road. The event has activities that are suitable for the 5-12 years age group; however, families with children of all ages are welcome, as there will be
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Police are appealing for information following an unprovoked assault in Bradley Stoke. At around 8:30pm on Monday (15th August), a 29-year-old man was walking alone in the Three Brooks Local Nature Nature Reserve, near to Ormonds Close. He was approached from behind by two men who went on to assault him by kicking him in the head and stamping on
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Bradley Stoke has been left without banking facilities for the second time in two years after the Santander agency branch in the Willow Brook Centre closed suddenly this week. A source at a neighbouring unit said the Santander staff had been told of the impending closure on Tuesday and the branch closed it doors for the last time at 5pm
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Bus route and timetable changes scheduled for mid-September look set to leave a large part of South Bradley Stoke without a direct daytime service to Bristol city centre. South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has confirmed rumours that the 71 and 72 bus services operated by Wessex Connect are to be withdrawn from 18th September. The hourly 71 service, which links North
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Youth clubs in Bradley Stoke are once again facing an uncertain future after local Councils informed the current service provider that they are to withdraw funding from 31st October. An announcement posted on the website of Southern Brooks Community Partnership (the current provider) earlier this week explains that the Town Council and South Gloucestershire Youth Service have informed the organisation
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Office space at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre that has been vacant since the new town centre opened almost three years ago could be converted to a gym if South Gloucestershire Council approves an application for a change of use. Brookmaker Ltd, a subsidiary of Tesco, is seeking approval for a change in use from class B1 (offices) to class
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The Sort It! civic amenity site in Station Road, Little Stoke, is to begin closing on Wednesdays when new operating times come into force on 1st August. The news was buried in the footnotes of a South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) press release titled “Improvements to Sort It! Centres” put out on Wednesday (26th July). In common with other Sort It!
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South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) Cabinet has approved the submission to the Department for Transport (DfT) of a bid for £51 million of government funding towards a bus rapid transit scheme that would link link Cribbs Causeway with Bristol city centre via Bradley Stoke. The £102 million scheme, known as the North Fringe to Hengrove Package, promises to provide a “fast,
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The community of Bradley Stoke has been officially thanked for sending a giant congratulations card to HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton (now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) on the occasion of their wedding in April. The letter, from St James’s Palace, describes the card as “a marvellous piece of work” and makes reference to the hearts, fabric and
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A Bradley Stoke Town Councillor has criticised the town’s newly-introduced part-night street lighting scheme by claiming it violates residents’ human rights. Speaking at last week’s Safer and Stronger Communities meeting, Cllr Ed Rose said he supported calls by some residents for the lights to be turned back on because they have a right to “liberty and security” (Article 5 of
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