A popular car boot sale that takes place near Bradley Stoke is to re-open for the 2011 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 1st May 2011. Despite concerns about “heavy
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A local arts development group is staging a day of free music, dance and drama workshops on Saturday 30th April. The workshops, which are suitable for all ages, include rock ‘n roll, guitar, disco, salsa, jazz and street dance, drama, flag spinning, pre-school drama and puppet making. Included is a workshop and performance by the Bristol Concert Orchestra of Prokofiev’s
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Bradley Stoke Town FC (BSTFC) have run out winners of the Gloucestershire FA Intermediate Cup with a 2-1 victory over Mendip United FC. Last night’s match at Oakland Park, Almomdsbury, saw the local team fight back strongly after going 1-0 down 15 minutes into the game. Two goals from central defender Ben Osborne (in the 42nd and 51st minutes) turned
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South Gloucestershire Conservatives promise more police on the beat, the roll-out of superfast broadband and a recycling reward scheme if they win next month’s local elections. The party’s manifesto was launched in Bradley Stoke’s Town Square on Friday, in the presence of local MP Jack Lopresti and the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey. The document, entitled
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has been chosen as the venue for an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record™ for the longest continuous hockey match. The event, organised by South Gloucestershire Hockey Club (SGHC) and held over the weekend of 28th/29th May, will raise money for the Cots for Tots Appeal at St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol. The current
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The Bradley Stoke Safer and Stronger Community Group meets on Tuesday (12th April) at Baileys Court Activity Centre, Baileys Court Road (7pm start). The group allows residents to work together with the police, fire service, health service and councils to improve the local community and have a say about the services they receive. This month’s meeting will review progress on
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Bradley Stoke Community Radio Association (BSCRA) has announced that it has been awarded a licence for first its first FM transmission, which will take place in June over the period of the town’s Community Festival. BSCRA Chair Stephen Poole told The Journal: “Ofcom has approved the application for our ‘Restricted Service Licence‘, which means we can broadcast from 1st –
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A visit by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to Bradley Stoke planned for today has had to be cancelled “for operational reasons”, according to a Liberal Democrat spokesperson. The visit first came to light on BBC Radio Bristol news bulletins this morning (Friday 8th), where it was announced that: “The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is to make a flying
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A party of 35 students from Bradley Stoke’s twin town of Champs-sur-Marne (France) visited Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) earlier this week. BSCS French teacher Sheriban Fekaj welcomed the exchange group to the school on Wednesday and has sent us this report: “We have been extremely pleased to welcome 35 students from Champs-sur-Marne and their teacher, Priscilla Hellier, to BSCS
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BREAKING NEWS We’ve just heard that the Filton exchange, which serves 0117 numbers within Bradley Stoke, is to be upgraded to superfast fibre optic broadband in 2012. BT press release: BT today announced that more 25,000 more homes and businesses in Bristol and nearby towns will have access to super-fast fibre broadband by the end of next year at the
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