Illuminated Christmas-themed motifs have been installed on lamp posts surrounding three roundabouts on Bradley Stoke Way following a town council decision to allocate a first-year budget of £10,000 for the initiative. The costs incurred to date are £4,157 to purchase the motifs, £2,400 to install power supplies and £1,980 to erect and take down the motifs.
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Hundreds of people from across the Stokes and further afield have expressed shock and sadness at the news that Terry James, joint host of the famous Watch Elm Close charity Christmas lights, has died. Together with partner Mike Checkley, Terry had helped raise thousands of pounds for charities, most recently St Peter’s Hospice, through collections made at their extravagant Christmas
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A charity Christmas lights display at a home in Watch Elm Close, Bradley Stoke has raised almost three times its intended fundraising target, thanks to an incredible run of media interest which culminated in it being voted second best in the UK in a national TV poll. The extravagant display, created by house owners Terry James and Mike Checkley, contained
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A charity Christmas lights display in Watch Elm Close, Bradley Stoke has been voted the second best in the UK in a national poll conducted by ITV This Morning. The extravagant display, put up by house owners Terry James and Mike Checkley, has been on since 1st December. Since then, it has attracted huge interest, initially through social media and
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The owners of a Bradley Stoke house which has built up a reputation for staging extravagant Christmas lights displays are claiming to have created the “biggest and best display the town has ever seen” for 2018. Terry James and Mike Checkley have again transformed their home in Watch Elm Close into a Christmas wonderland to raise money for St Peter’s
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New Friday evening spot for popular festive function. The official start of Christmas festivities at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre will be celebrated with a spectacular firework display on Friday 16th November. This year’s seasonal lights switch-on is set to be nothing short of sensational, with live music from Britain’s Got Talent (BGT) finalists, fire jugglers and more. The
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The owners of a house in Watch Elm Close, Bradley Stoke, are hoping their extravagant Christmas lights display will raise more than £2,000 towards the St Peter’s Hospice ‘Room to Care’ appeal. Mike Checkley and Terry James have decorated the outside of their home with a spectacular light show that incorporates around 25,000 individual bulbs. The display has grown from
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Live music, children’s entertainers, fairground rides and Santa’s grotto will greet shoppers at the live turn-on of the Willow Brook Centre’s Christmas lights. The festivities will begin at midday on Saturday 18th November, with the big switch-on happening at 5pm. A Robbie Williams tribute act will entertain the crowds during the afternoon; there will also be music in the mall
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Two charities stand to benefit to the tune of several hundred pounds from an extravagant Christmas lights display on a house in Watch Elm Close, Bradley Stoke (BS32 8AN; map). Mike Checkley and Terry James have decorated the outside of their home with forty-four sets of lights, incorporating a total of around 17,000 individual bulbs, and are inviting people who
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Five lucky families won back stage passes to meet CBeebies presenter Andy Day at the Willow Brook Centre’s Christmas switch-on event on Saturday (21st November). The Armstrong, James, Jones, Smythe and Stodgell families all won a competition run by Willow Brook on Facebook to meet Andy before he switched on the lights. Crowds of Bradley Stoke residents gathered at Willow Brook
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