A branch of the Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts (PQA) is to open soon at Bradley Stoke Community School. The weekend drama school will be launched at an open day on 25th April at the Fiddlers Wood Lane site. An announcement on the PQA website adds: No need to book, just come along and experience the fun of PQA!
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Estate agents CJ Hole are now open for business at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. The previously unannounced move became apparent today (Monday) when the company’s advertising boards outside properties in the town were emblazoned with a “now at the Willow Brook Centre” flash. A source at the company told The Journal that the new office, on the first floor
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A Bradley Stoke Town Councillor is helping Bradley Stoke residents form an association to address local issues. Conservative Cllr Ben Walker contacted residents of The Coppice after reading about their anti-porn demonstration in February, directed at film producer James Edwards, who operates a sex film studio from his property in the quiet cul-de-sac. Now he is encouraging residents from the
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Police have arrested two 17-year-old men in connection with a series of car and property blazes in Bradley Stoke during the early hours of Friday morning. The incidents began at 1:40am when a wheelie bin was set on fire in Saxon Way. Within the next hour three cars were set alight and other smaller fires started. Police declined to issue
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Taylors Estate Agents look set to open an office at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre, according to an announcement on the centre’s official website. The company, currently located at Bradley Pavilions in Pear Tree Road, says: We are looking forward to moving from our existing premises in Bradley Pavilions to the fantastic new Willow Brook Centre. In addition to offering
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Two teams from a Bradley Stoke street dance group achieved top placings in the recent 2009 UDO British Street Dance Championships at Brean Sands. Fahrenheit Dance Studio Bristol’s BS1 team (formerly Extreme) came 2nd in the under 18 intermediate class, while the group’s Escape team finished 5th in the under 14 intermediate category. The studio’s DZire (under 18 newcomer) and
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Mayor Robert Jones has demanded an apology from South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) Chairman Ian Knight, who has singled out Bradley Stoke as a example of poor town planning. The put-down was reported in yesterday’s Bristol Evening Post, in a article about the proposed £2.5 billion Ashton Park development in South Bristol. The article quotes Mr Knight as saying:
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Bradley Stoke’s Baileys Court Activity Centre is tonight (Tuesday 3rd March) hosting a meeting of South Gloucestershire Council’s Southern Brooks Area Forum (7pm start). The Council sees the Area Fourm as an opportunity “to consider decisions at a local level and to consider local views in the decision-making process”. The agenda promises an update on the Greater Bristol Cycling City
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Letters detailing offers of secondary school places for admission in September 2009 have been posted today (using 2nd class mail) by South Gloucestershire Council. Parents/carers who applied online will be able to view the results on the Internet from “late afternoon” today, provided they can remember their username and password (chosen at the time of application). Bradley Stoke Community School
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Hundreds of defective shopping trolleys at the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke are due to be replaced over the weekend, according to Customer Services Manager Matt Hill. Wheel locking devices on the faulty ‘shallow’ trolleys have been spontaneously seizing up ever since they were introduced when the new store opened last October. Over the last week, most of the
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