The Willow Brook Centre is launching a new club especially for local mums. The ‘Mummy’s Breakfast Morning’ club will be held in the Harvester restaurant on the last Tuesday of each month, starting on Tuesday 28th June 2011. Membership is free and mums can register by emailing their contact details to mummys@willowbrookcentre.co.uk It’s a great opportunity to catch up with
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Dear Editor, Tesco Willow Brook Centre has major designed-in parking problems, resulting in discord between Tesco and its customers as detailed in previous posts and countless pub, office and back fence whinging sessions. 1. The general car park design is terrible (there is never a trolley shed anywhere near your car and there is a garden right across where you
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A dog show staged in Bradley Stoke’s Town Square on Sunday has raised over £400 for a local rescue charity. The Family Fun Dog Show, organised by the Bristol Dog Action Welfare Group (DAWG) to mark National Pet Week, attracted an entry of 119 animals and raised £443 towards the group’s greyhound and lurcher rescue work. DAWG’s patron Andrew Dilger
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A Fun Dog Show is to to take place this Sunday (8th May) in Bradley Stoke’s Town Square. Organised by the Bristol Dog Action Welfare Group (DAWG) and sponsored by the Willow Brook Centre, the show includes a total of 14 classes, ranging from “best puppy” to “dog the judge would most like to take home”. The show runs from
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BBC Bristol reports today that a would-be thief became trapped for four hours in a clothes recycling bin at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre as he tried to steal used clothes. The man had to be cut free by fire officers after he was helped into the bin by an accomplice. CCTV footage on the BBC News website shows the
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Following on from a planning application to fit a gate to the pedestrian access point between Manor Farm Crescent and the Willow Brook Centre, a site inspection is to be carried out on Friday 1st April at 10:50am by the South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) Development Control (West) Committee. This will then inform the full Planning Meeting to be held on
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The Brantano shoe store at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre is running a ‘New for Old’ money-saving promotion that promises to also help a baby charity and people in the third world. Anyone taking an old pair of shoes (in any condition) into the store before Sunday 10th April will be given a £10-off voucher that can be used when
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After some seven years of being away from Bradley Stoke, my wife and I returned recently and stopped for lunch at The Three Brooks public house. Imagine our shock as we approached the pub to be greeted by this vast grey box dominating the area. In fact we first thought that the pub had been demolished to make way for
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The Willow Brook Centre has announced the opening of a new car wash service to be launched on Friday 25th March 2011. Waves Car Wash Limited provides hand car wash and valeting services, offering “a premium service at reasonable rates”. Shoppers will be offered a range of options spanning a basic outside-only wash to a full valeting service, with prices
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Officials at South Gloucestershire Council have recommended that a planning application to turn a garage in a corner of the Willow Brook Centre car park into a Domino’s pizza outlet should be refused. Members of the Council’s Development Control (West) Committee, who inspected the proposed site two weeks ago, will this afternoon decide the fate of the application at a
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