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Primary school resubmits “contentious” plan for extra parking places

Bowsland Green Primary School has submitted a planning application to create eleven additional parking places within the school grounds despite having to withdraw a similar plan earlier this year because planning officials considered it “contentious”. South Gloucestershire Council’s Local Plan suggests a cap of one parking space for every two members of staff, but with 15 spaces already available for

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Dance group secures hat-trick of wins at Welsh Championships

— Click a thumbnail image to view a larger version — Three teams from a Bradley Stoke street dance group were victorious in their respective classes at the recent 2009 UDO Welsh Street Dance Championships in Newport. Fahrenheit Dance Studio Bristol’s K Boom team (pictured above,  left)  came first in the under-10 newcomer category. The group’s Escape team (centre) were

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Curves fitness centre shuts up shop

The Bradley Stoke branch of Curves, the worldwide  ladies-only fitness and health group, has ceased trading at the town’s Willow Brook shopping centre. Staff at the branch were told three weeks ago that the franchise was in financial difficulty but management said they were hopeful that the situation would improve in the new year, when gyms traditionally see a surge

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Meadowbank by-election campaigns get underway with leaflet drops

Campaigning for the upcoming by-election in Bradley Stoke’s Meadowbank parish ward is now under way, with the first party political leaflets being delivered to homes in the area. The by-election, which takes place on Thursday 26th November, sees one candidate from each of the local Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties battling for a seat that became vacant after David Skeet

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Pubwatch comes to Bradley Stoke

Local police have announced that a Pubwatch scheme is now up and running in Bradley Stoke. Three pubs in Bradley Stoke -The Bradley Stoke, The Three Brooks and Baileys Court Inn – have joined The Travellers Rest in Patchway and Stoke Gifford’s Parkway Tavern and Beaufort Arms as founder members. Neighbourhood Beat Manager PC Steve Palmer was instrumental in setting

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