A local councillor has organised a public meeting to discuss the rising burglary rate in Bradley Stoke after the latest published figures showed the number of monthly incidents running at four times the two-year average. Data published on the official police.uk website shows there were 16 burglaries recorded in Bradley Stoke during November 2016*, the highest in any month over the last
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MetroBus contractors Alun Griffiths say they plan to make the best of the current fair weather and continue with overnight closures of a section of Bradley Stoke Way for a further five nights this week, commencing tonight (Monday 23rd January). Griffiths’ community liaison officer Jim Aitken said: “We are carrying on the night work this week to make best progress and
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Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) had cause to celebrate the biggest week in its history at the end of November, when it received final confirmation of planning permission for a new helicopter operations base at a site near the Almondsbury Interchange and learned that a £1 million grant was heading its way. GWAAC chief executive John Christensen said: “Finding
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Police are appealing for information after three homes in Bradley Stoke, Stoke Lodge and Filton were burgled on the same day earlier this week. The burglaries took place at residential addresses on Tuesday (17th January), in the late afternoon and evening, and police believe they are all linked. The first took place shortly after 7pm at a house on Savages Wood Road, Bradley Stoke.
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MetroBus contractors Alun Griffiths have announced that a section of Bradley Stoke Way is to be closed overnight for three nights later this week. The closures are the first of a series that are expected to take place over the next four weeks and are required to facilitate the final resurfacing of the road following the installation of new bus
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A young woman from Bradley Stoke who suffered from anorexia from the age of 12 is organising a programme of local fundraising events throughout 2017 in aid of Beat, one of the UK’s leading eating disorders charities. Sophie Mitchell, now 20, spent nearly six months in hospital around the time of her sixteenth birthday and has only recently returned to
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A Bradley Stoke pre-school is celebrating after being awarded a full set of ‘outstanding’ grades in a recent Ofsted inspection. Abacus @ Meadowbrook, which has been established in free-standing accommodation within the grounds of Meadowbrook Primary School since 2014, was visited by an inspector at the end of November and she concluded that the quality and standard of early years
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced plans to close the inside lane of the A38 southbound approach to the Aztec West Roundabout for four days later this week, in order to carry out a “significant” gas main diversion. The move breaks an assurance given by the council prior to the commencement of the project that major carriageway work would not be
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A public meeting is to take take place in Bradley Stoke this Thursday (12th January) to provide residents with further information about upcoming MetroBus construction activities in the town. A media note issued ahead of the meeting states: “The MetroBus works on [the northern and central sections of] Bradley Stoke Way are nearing completion. Between now and the end of February,
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The Sole Sisters beginners’ course is ideal for any ladies who want to start running, but don’t know how to begin. Three times each year (each course has a limit of 45 people for ‘health & safety’ reasons) we offer a training course for women who wish to start running, have never run before or are returning after a long
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