Happy Christmas to all our readers from The Journal team! We hope to update the website as normal over the holiday period, so don’t forget to check back soon for all the latest Bradley Stoke news, including our Review of 2009. Our Bradley Stoke Christmas 2009 page has all the information you need to enjoy the Christmas and New Year
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A scheme to add a bus lane on the northbound carriageway of the A38 between Little Stoke and the Aztec West Roundabout has been amended after a public consultation. The scheme, first announced by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) in September, replaced an earlier proposal for a more comprehensive system of new bus and general traffic lanes on roads leading off
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Prospective students of Bradley Stoke’s new post-16 (sixth form) centre have aired their views on policies they would like to see enforced when the facility opens in September. Feedback from a ‘post-16 consultation exercise’ conducted amongst year 11 students and staff at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) outlines opinions on: dress code rules for the centre’s social area attendance regulations
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The results of a survey of users of the Jubilee Green play park have been published by the Friends of Jubilee Green volunteer group. 89% of the 55 people polled said they would like access to toilets at the park and 71% said they would visit the park more often if they had permanent access to toilets at the Savages
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Local Liberal Democrat Councillor Jon Williams has slammed the Conservatives for, he says, wrongly claiming credit over the approval of a new pedestrian crossing on Brook Way. The row follows a campaign by parents of children at Wheatfield Primary School, who said they found it dangerous getting to the school from Saxon Way and other roads on the west side
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South Gloucestershire councillor Peter Tyzack has been chosen as the Liberal Democrat’s candidate for the new Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS) parliamentary constituency at next year’s general election. Cllr Tyzack becomes the third Liberal Democrat to be nominated to fight the seat after the resignations of two previous candidates. Emma Bone quit “for family reasons” in 2008, while John Kiely
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A private enforcement company has been brought in to combat unauthorised parking around the edge of the Tesco petrol filling station at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. Notices threatening rogue motorists with a penalty charge of £70 have been erected around the area. The signs bear the name of South West Parking Solutions, a Cheltenham company. A reporter from The
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Police have been called in to investigate the disappearance of thousands of pounds of funds belonging to the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of a Bradley Stoke primary school. Writing in a recent newsletter, Arlene Yalung, outgoing Chair of the Friends of St Mary’s (the PTA of St Mary’s RC Primary School in Webbs Wood Road) says: “This year we have
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Former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar was guest of honour at Bradley Stoke’s Baileys Court Inn on Saturday night at a post-match function organised by local football club Winterbourne United. Winterbourne manager Nick Tanner, a team-mate of Grobbelaar at Liverpool, seemed to have pulled off a coup when he announced that the wacky 51-year-old would play for his team against local
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The Bradley Stoke local beat team is staging two free bicycle security marking events this coming week. The move is linked to mention of a “slight increase of pushbike thefts in the area recently” in the December edition of the Bradley Stoke police newsletter. PCSO Kirsty Flicker will be at Bradley Stoke Community School after lessons on Monday (7th December)
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