To help celebrate its success at being designated a specialist Performing Arts and Language College, Bradley Stoke Community School hosted a European Christmas Market on Tuesday Evening. The school’s aims of providing an educational experience that engages students, developing independence and making a positive contribution to the wider community were all evident at this event. There was a wide range
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Two more businesses are set to begin trading soon at Bradley Stoke’s new Willow Brook shopping centre. Explore Learning and Curves are on schedule to open in mid-January and will occupy units on the first floor of the main building. The new units are located close to the public toilets and are accessed via the staircase from the centre of
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The coming week sees a full programme of Christmas-themed events in Bradley Stoke. Tuesday (16th December) sees Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) hosting a European Christmas Market from 5pm to 7:30pm. The event has been organised to celebrate the school’s designation as a specialist Performing Arts and Languages College (effective since September 2008). Students will plan, run and produce stock
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Scott Lahive, manager of the Willow Brook Centre, is set to address a meeting of Bradley Stoke’s Safer & Stronger Community Group this Tuesday evening. Local residents are expected to quiz Mr Lahive about parking facilities at the new town centre site following a flood of negative comments in the Bradley Stoke Examiner’s forums. Also due to attend the meeting
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A street dance teacher from Bradley Stoke’s Fahrenheit Dance Studio is to appear on stage at next week’s Royal Variety Performance in London. Kane Silver, who teaches children in classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Bradley Stoke Leisure, has been chosen to dance with Britain’s Got Talent winner George Sampson at the prestige event. Having been successful in the highly
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Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) has received a petition from a group of electors calling on it to provide allotments for local residents, as required by the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908. The petition was received at last month’s Full Council meeting and has been backed by local LibDem MP Steve Webb, who has written to the Council in support of the campaigners. Under
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Police officers yesterday (Tuesday) raided a four-bedroom detached house in Bradley Stoke’s Juniper Way, following tip-offs from the local community that the property was being used as a cannabis “factory”. A search led to the recovery of around 450 well-grown cannabis plants, with an estimated street value of £180,000, growing in five rooms of the house. A 48-year-old man has
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Live music and reindeer came to Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre on Saturday with the switch-on of the Christmas lights. Father Christmas had parked his sleigh in the Town Square, where a pretty conical Christmas tree has been erected – decorated with white lights and topped with a large star. Staff from Greggs the bakers handed out refreshments while children delighted
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The work of two local Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) has led to a man being detained on suspicion of thefts from cars in Bradley Stoke and Stoke Gifford. PCSOs Kirsty Flicker and John Hitchings were on a routine patrol on Tuesday (25th November) when they were given details of a man who had been seen acting suspiciously around cars. The
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Mobile takeaway vans could soon be trading again in the car park of the Baileys Court Activity Centre in Bradley Stoke. Prior to the recent redevelopment of the site, The Chinese Wok van was a regular visitor, but construction activity meant the business had to move elsewhere and the van did not return on completion of the work. It is now
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