Bradley Stoke Twinning Association is to hold a General Meeting on Tuesday 31st August at the Jubilee Centre (7:30pm start). Anyone interested in getting involved in the Twinning Association is invited to attend. Local organisations, including The Stokes Cycling Club, St Mary’s Rugby Club, Bradley Stoke Judo Club, Black & Blues Netball Club, Bradley Stoke Youth FC, Bradley Stoke Community
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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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A nursery school near Bradley Stoke has been rated “satisfactory” by an Ofsted inspector, who visited the ‘early years’ care provider in June. The privately-owned Barn Owl nursery in Hambrook has a capacity for 20 children between the ages of two and five and it currently has 26 on roll. The inspector wrote: “The nursery offers a happy environment, where
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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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Bradley Stoke Library is inviting residents to a “murder mystery with a difference” event on the evening of Wednesday 15th September. When poet Colonel Kipling’s reading at the Poetry Festival is interrupted by a murder, it falls to the audience to decide ‘whodunit?’ by following the plot and solving the clues in an intriguing murder mystery by poet Sara-Jane Arbury,
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When are Avon and Somerset Constabulary going to realise that the ostrich approach is failing the town? It is reaching the stage where people are now fearing for the safety of their property and their own person if they are brave enough to walk the streets after dark. The published figures are an absolute joke as the meeting last month
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A planning application registered with South Gloucestershire Council suggests that a Boots store might still be coming to Bradley Stoke, despite earlier rumours that negotiations had broken down. Boots UK has lodged an application for the “installation of mezzanine floor and provision of fire exit/office entrance door” at unit 1 of the retail terrace at the Willow Brook Centre. The
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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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