Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) has been landed with a near £1,000 bill after electricity cables powering floodlights around the hard court at the Brook Way Activity Centre were “maliciously” severed. The cables, which run around the perimeter of the court in plastic ducting encased in a concrete shroud, were seen to have been cut in at least four places
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Happy New Year to all our readers from the Journal team! We hope you all enjoyed the Christmas and New Year festivities. If you’re looking to catch up on some shopping or are wondering when your next bin collection will be after the holiday period, take a look at our Christmas and New Year Opening Times page for all the
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Bradley Stoke Town Council’s (BSTC’s) Planning Committee has objected to plans to convert a garage in the car park of the Willow Brook Centre into a takeaway pizza shop. The committee claims the takeaway would “affect the amenity of neighbouring properties” and that there is “already adequate provision of this type of business in the local area”. Councillors have also
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Journal reader Owen Richards reports: A dog was rescued from the lake in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, Bradley Stoke, earlier today (at about 4pm), having presumably gone on the ice and fallen through. A crew from Avon Fire & Rescue on scene broke through the ice and eventually used an inflatable boat to get to the dog (Morgan,
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South Gloucestershire Council is encouraging residents to make use of a new cycle route between Bradley Stoke and Cribbs Causeway to help get in some last minute Christmas shopping. The three mile route, which runs from Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre to the Mall at Cribbs Causeway, consists of a series of dedicated or mixed-use cycle paths and quiet roads which
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The Almondsbury telephone exchange, which serves much of Bradley Stoke, has made it onto the leaderboard of a national competition designed to measure the demand for faster broadband connections. After attracting more than 1,000 votes from local residents and businesses, Almondsbury has joined a select group of (currently) 18 exchanges, out of 2,495 eligible, at the head of BT’s Race
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Abigail Newton Smith, the young cerebral palsy sufferer from Bradley Stoke who travelled to the USA for an operation that it is hoped will help her get around without a wheelchair, has had her first physiotherapy session just three days after undergoing the selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) procedure at the St Louis Children’s Hospital. Local people and businesses rallied round
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Two local MPs were in town recently to take part in a debate about the Big Society with representatives from South Gloucestershire’s voluntary and community sector. MPs Jack Lopresti (Filton & Bradley Stoke) and Steve Webb (Thornbury & Yate) heard about the diversity and value of the work which is already being done in local communities by the voluntary and
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Bradley Stoke Community Radio Association has been awarded a grant of £5,000 from the Quartet Community Foundation’s Grassroots Grants Programme towards setting up a community radio station in the town. The money comes on top of the £2,500 awarded to the group in August by South Gloucestershire Council’s Southern Brooks Area Forum, £1,500 from the same source in 2009, £1,000
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Adverts for vacancies at the new Boots store and regional office in Bradley Stoke have begun appearing on the Boots jobs website. A press release put out by the Willow Brook Centre in August stated there would be at least 30 jobs at the new store, while a planning application seeking to install a mezzanine floor in the unit suggested
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