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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CBeebies presenter Andy Day (of Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures fame) will wow the children of Bradley Stoke when he switches on the Christmas Lights at Willow Brook Centre this Saturday (21st November). Andy, who is starring in Snow White at the Bristol Hippodrome, will light up the town centre alongside Father Christmas at 5pm. Shoppers who complete a special Christmas trail around the
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The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke is gearing up for a fun-filled ‘spooktacular’ to celebrate Halloween. The shopping centre’s Halloween Fun Day event takes place this Wednesday (28th October) between 11am and 3pm. Simply gruesome entertainment will be provided by ‘Lord of the Bins’, aka Bread and Butter Theatre. Gandalf Garbage and Frodo Bin-Baggins, two rather special puppets perched on their very
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A hair and beauty salon at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre that closed suddenly in mid-August is yet to resume trading, despite assurances that the business would re-open within weeks. A notice on the door of the Excellence Spa salon, which opened at the centre in July 2011, reads: “We are sorry that the spa is now closed due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Tesco has revealed plans to open Dorothy Perkins and Burton outlets on the mezzanine (upper) floor of its Bradley Stoke Extra store. The new stores will be constructed in the space that is currently occupied by the consumer electronics department and the Tesco Phone shop. Tesco’s own F&F brand clothing will continue to be sold in the area that it currently
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Ahoy there ship mates, the pirates are taking over the Willow Brook shopping centre in Bradley Stoke on Thursday 6th August for a fun-packed day of swashbuckling fun. The pirates land at 11am when children can meet and take a selfie with one of the UK’s leading Captain Jack Sparrow lookalikes. He will be looking for apprentice pirates to join
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Local musicians and bands are being given the opportunity to showcase their talents during August, thanks to the Willow Brook Centre and Bradley Stoke Radio. Willow Brook has joined forces with the community radio station to launch Bradley Stoke’s Got Music. The competition is open to singers, musicians or bands with members over 14 years of age who live in the
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The Journal is pleased to announce that Natasha Thwaites is the lucky winner of our exclusive prize draw to win a year’s free membership at the Anytime Fitness gym in Bradley Stoke. The free prize draw was featured in the May 2015 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine and on our website and the winner’s name was drawn out
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Youngsters and their dads will get the chance to try their hand at climbing at a special Father’s Day event organised by Willow Brook Centre. This Saturday (20th June), Willow Brook will bring a 5.5 metre high climbing tower into the town square for children and adults to scale new heights for free. There will be a fully qualified instructor
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[Advertising Feature] The Bradley Stoke Journal is offering readers the chance to win a year’s free gym membership at Anytime Fitness Bradley Stoke in an exclusive prize draw that is open until 31st May 2015. Anytime Fitness is the world’s largest 24hr gym chain with over 2,400 sites worldwide. There are currently four sites in Bristol, one of them located
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