A Bradley Stoke Town Councillor and former Mayor has resigned her seat just two months after announcing that she had dumped the Conservatives to become independent. Cllr Charlotte Walker was elected under the Conservative banner to represent the Lakeside parish ward in May 2011 and served as Mayor during the administrative year 2012/13. In doing so, she followed in the footsteps
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Fine weather once again drew a big crowd to Bradley Stoke’s Jubilee Centre for the main day of the annual Community Festival. The action got under way at 11.30am when the first matches in the Schools Football Tournament kicked off on the upper pitch. Youngsters from local schools battled it out in a competition where marks for fair play were
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The 2013 Bradley Stoke Community Festival gets under way at 9.30am today (Friday 7th) with children’s entertainment at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. Professor Panic presents his range of circus skills in the Big Top, alongside Steve the Bubbleman and a bouncy castle. Refreshments will be served alongside a range of local craft and community stalls. The Friends
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With the second anniversary of the introduction of part-night street lighting in Bradley Stoke coming up next month, The Journal has today launched an online poll to gauge readers’ views on the scheme. A public consultation carried out by the town council in 2010 found 54% of the 153 respondents in agreement with the plan put forward by South Gloucestershire
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Conservative candidate Andy Ward has been declared the winner of yesterday’s by-election in the Primrose Bridge parish ward of Bradley Stoke. Mr Ward, with 387 votes, finished ahead of Caroline Sullivan (UKIP), with 269 votes, and Sarah Drake (Liberal Democrat), with 160. The Labour Party, which fielded a full set of candidates for the four-seat ward in 2011, did not
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Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) has published its Annual Report for 2012/13, ahead of the Annual Town Meeting, which takes place on Wednesday 8th May. The meeting will receive summary reports from the Chair of Council (Cllr Charlotte Walker), the Chair of the Finance Committee (Cllr Roger Avenin), the Chair of the Planning & Environment Committee (Cllr Robert Jones) and
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The by-election for a vacant seat on Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) will be a three-way fight between candidates from the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and UKIP parties. The contest, which was forced by UKIP following the resignation of Conservative councillor Keir Gravil, will be determined on Thursday 2nd May when around 3,500 voters in the Primrose Bridge parish ward are
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The local branch of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has called for a by-election to fill a vacant seat on Bradley Stoke Town Council. The vacancy, in the Primrose Bridge parish ward, arose in February when Keir Gravil (Conservative) resigned because he is going to work abroad. Local UKIP councillor Ben Walker, buoyed by the good showing of his party’s
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The number of car parking spaces available to staff and patients at Bradley Stoke Surgery could be significantly reduced after Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) announced it is exploring ways of reserving spaces for users of the adjacent Brook Way Activity Centre. According to a report presented to this month’s Full Council meeting, 23 of the 48 spaces at the
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The resignation of a Bradley Stoke Town Councillor could lead to a by-election being called, if local political groups choose to force a showdown. Keir Gravil (Conservative), one of four Town Councillors representing the Primrose Bridge parish ward, has resigned his seat because his work is taking him to Australia. His resignation follows that of another Conservative, Barry Mitchell, who
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