The Bradley Stoke police team’s recently published July newsletter highlights a number of “nuisance” issues said to be causing concern in the area. “Nuisance vehicles” are said to be blighting the north of the town, while “nuisance youths” are causing trouble at play areas in the south. The police also say they are looking for more residents to volunteer for
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Bradley Stoke Town FC is looking to recruit new players to strengthen its first team squad for the upcoming football season. Last season the team gained promotion for the third time in a row and officials are now seeking more good quality players to ensure that the remarkable record can be continued. Pre-season training is already underway – at Wheatfield
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has begun advertising for a new Town Clerk to replace the present incumbent, David Chandler, who retires in January 2010. Mr Chandler has been the Clerk since the Council was formed in 1992. At that time, Bradley Stoke had only a few thousand residents and he ran operations from the front room of his home. An
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A father of two from Bradley Stoke is said to have sparked a nationwide police hunt after eloping with a local 15 year old schoolgirl. A “exclusive” report in yesterday’s Sun [Dad aged 22 runs off with schoolgirl, 15] claims that Jack Saxton has “gone on the run” with Alyx Leighton, who turned 15 two weeks ago. The report says
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Opticians group Specsavers looks set to take the final remaining “under offer” unit at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre. The company has recently started advertising for staff, saying it will “shortly be opening a busy, friendly store in Bradley Stoke”. Card Factory, Brantano (shoes), ZeroG (cycles) and Pets at Home are the other companies that are expected to open
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Police are appealing for witnesses to an assault that occured on Sunday night (28th June) near the Jubilee Centre in Bradley Stoke. A couple walking home came upon a group of men near the entrance of the Jubilee Centre. One threatened the man with a knife, and he was then beaten and kicked by five others. When the alarm was
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The new Brantano shoe store at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre is to open next month. Fitting out of the shop began earlier this week and posters put up on the doors today give the opening date as Tuesday 21st July. Brantano was revealed by The Journal as a potential tenant in October last year. The store occupies unit 2
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The size of the police team covering Bradley Stoke is set to increase next month when a new Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) starts work. South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) announced back in April that it was investing an additional £150,000 to “more than double the Council-funded uniformed police profile locally in response to concerns about community safety, anti-social behaviour and
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A public exhibition is being held this week to display the latest information about plans to allow vehicles to use the hard shoulder on motorways in the Bradley Stoke area. Work on the M4/M5 Managed Motorway scheme, announced by Geoff Hoon, Secretary of State for Transport, earlier this year, is due to begin in Spring 2010 and be fully operational
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Members of Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) have criticised the town’s Twinning Association after the group retrospectively applied for a grant towards the cost of a meal at which visitors from the twin town of Champs-sur-Marne were entertained earlier this year. Residents of the French town visited Bradley Stoke over the weekend of 2nd/3rd May and took part in a meeting
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