Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) was the subject of an Ofsted inspection last week and is currently awaiting the official report. Headmaster Dave Baker has told parents that: “the overall outcome was as positive as it could have been, which will validate what we have been doing”. The inspectors are said to have been very complimentary about the students and
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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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St Mary’s RC Primary School, located in Webbs Wood Road in Bradley Stoke, has once again been rated one of the best state primary schools in the country. The school is ranked 41st in the latest Sunday Times league tables, with pupils having achieved a composite score of 296 (out of a maximum possible 300) in the 2008 SATs. More
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Bradley Stoke’s first-ever cycle shop – known as “The Giant Store – Bristol” – staged a belated official celebration of its opening last Saturday (7th November) with a stunt show in the Town Square. Shoppers were treated to a day of shows courtesy of British trials rider and multiple World Record holder Andrei Burton, who is currently ranked number five
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A Bradley Stoke company has denied any connection with misleading slimming trial offers being offered over the internet. South Gloucestershire Council has received over 250 complaints, some from as far away as Australia and Canada, concerning two companies that use an Arden Close address as the location of their registered office. The complaints centre around signing-up with internet businesses using
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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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Residents of Bradley Stoke and beyond are being asked for their views on the town’s Jubilee Green play park, adjacent to the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. The park was officially opened in July 2009 following two months of construction funded by the Big Lottery Fund, South Gloucestershire Council and Bradley Stoke Town Council. The Friends of Jubilee Green,
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A Bradley Stoke man, convicted of money laundering and controlling prostitution at Swansea Crown Court in November 2007, has been ordered to pay back a six figure sum or face two more years in prison. Nicholas Tredgett has been given four months to pay £138,987 after the same court refused to accept his defence that a large portion of the
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Bradley Stoke Town Council’s 7th annual firework display has been hailed a tremendous success by both organisers and residents after record crowds braved the cold to watch the event at the Jubilee Centre on Sunday. Official estimates put the attendance at between five and six thousand and organisers confirmed this as a new record for the event. The 6pm start
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St Mary’s RC Primary School in Bradley Stoke is one of six schools in South Gloucestershire to have been awarded grants totalling nearly £37,000 to encourage safer, greener routes to school. The money will be used to encourage safer walking to school, introduce road markings to improve safety near school buildings, erect bike storage and teach pupils about sustainable transport
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