A dog show staged on Sunday in the car park of Bradley’s Stoke Willow Brook Centre has raised more than £800 for a local rescue charity. The Family Fun Dog Show was organised by the Bristol Dog Action Welfare Group (DAWG), which specialises in rescuing and re-homing greyhounds and lurchers. A total of 182 dogs attended the event, with many
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Local MP Jack Lopresti has opened his new constituency office in Bradley Stoke’s Almondsbury Business Park. The official opening took place on Friday (3rd September), attended by Cllr Janet Biggin, Chair of South Gloucestershire Council, and Cllr Ben Walker, Mayor of Bradley Stoke, along with other local councillors and supporters. The MP for the constituency of Filton and Bradley Stoke,
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The 73A bus route, which served Bradley Stoke and parts of Little Stoke, has been withdrawn by First Group. The service, which ran in the evenings and all-day on Sunday and Bank Holidays, has been replaced by extra journeys on service 73, which uses the more direct route along Orpheus Avenue instead of making a loop along Braydon Avenue, Little
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The first tenant of retail terrace unit 6 at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre will probably be a “value retailer”, according to Centre Manager Scott Lahive. The statement would appear to end speculation that a prestige fashion retailer such as New Look might open at the centre, although one further unit remains unoccupied and could in theory still be taken
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A number of clubs and organisations that operate in Bradley Stoke will tonight (Tuesday 31st) learn the fate of grant applications made to South Gloucestershire Council’s Southern Brooks Area Forum. The Forum, which has £23k to allocate from its Capital Grant Funding scheme, has received 17 applications totalling £37k. Organisations with Bradley Stoke links that have applied for funding include
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Bradley Stoke Police say they arrested three adult males following a robbery in Brook Way on Friday 20th August. Two males are said to have grabbed a female’s handbag as she passed them walking in the opposite direction. The victim was pushed over when she resisted. No weapons were used and she sustained no injuries. One male left in a
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There were emotional scenes at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) yesterday as the school’s first Year 11 students collected their GCSE results. Students and parents queued nervously outside the school, exchanging holiday tales as they waited for the doors to open at 10am. Once the staff had opened up, the students surged in and rushed to find the appropriate desk
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The management of Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre have confirmed that they are in “final discussions” with Boots, the UK’s leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer. Speculation that Boots would be opening soon in Bradley Stoke heightened when a planning application in the company’s name was submitted to South Gloucestershire Council last week. The planning application concerns unit 1
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Issues surrounding the provision of youth work in Bradley Stoke have once again proved divisive within the Town Council leading to a Councillor walking out of a meeting after being accused of “railroading” proposals for extra expenditure. After hearing youth leader Steve Robertson raise concerns in his quarterly report to Council that much of the youth club equipment is old
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The Harvester chain is to set to open a restaurant at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. An eagle-eyed Journal reader spotted notices in the windows of Town Square units 5, 6 & 7 this morning, which show that Mitchells & Butlers (the owning company) has applied to South Gloucestershire Council for an alcohol and entertainment licence on behalf of the
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