Bradley Stoke Town Footbal Club (BSTFC) have won promotion for the third consecutive season after a 3-0 victory over close rivals Shireway Sports at the Jubilee Centre on Saturday. The local team needed to win the match as a draw would have left Shireway with a chance of clinching the title with victory in their final game next Saturday. The
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Bradley Stoke’s new town centre is a step closer to completion after hoardings around the site were removed this week. The new ‘retail terrace’ of six large non-food outlets is now fully open to public view along with two smaller units on the north-western side of the Town Square, one of which is now decorated with the Ladbrokes logo. The
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The proposed move of Bradley Stoke’s youth clubs to the Brook Way Activity Centre could lead to the closure of other community groups in the town according to Town Clerk David Chandler. All youth clubs in the town are currently set to be transferred to the Brook Way site from 6th July 2009 following Bradley Stoke Town Council’s decision in
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The Journal has learned that a number of new tenants will soon be announced at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. Centre Manager Scott Lahive has disclosed that ‘under offer’ banners will be going up on seven units later this week. Four units in the Mall Two units in the soon-to-open Retail Terrace One unit in the Town Square (Ladbrokes) Earlier
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A Bradley Stoke runner is hoping to raise £1300 for a theatre charity by taking part in the Flora London Marathon this Sunday (26th April). Owen Wood (19) of Kemperley Way signed up just three months ago to represent the Chickenshed charity in the famous race. He has so far raised just short of £1200, mostly from colleagues at Canada
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The route of the ever-popular Bradley Stoke 10k race has been changed in response to feedback from runners and marshals at last year’s event. This year’s race, to be held on Sunday 14th June as part of the Bradley Stoke Community Festival, will start and finish at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. In previous years the race has
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The first meeting of the Lakeside Residents’ Association takes place this evening (Monday 20th April) at Baileys Court Activity Centre, Baileys Court Road (7pm start). The group was formed after Local Conservative Councillor Ben Walker contacted anti-porn protesters who had staged a protest outside sex film producer James Edwards’ house in The Coppice. Cllr Walker encouraged the protesters and other
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Wednesday’s meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council’s (BSTC’s) Finance & Leisure Committee was told that the cost of the new Jubilee Green play park is likely to be £50k more than had been originally estimated. The March meeting of Full Council had been told that tenders for the project would be opened on 3rd April and that work should start
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Patient registrations for Bradley Stoke’s soon to open NHS dental practice have begun with the launch of a new website. Phoenix Dental Ltd, which already operates practices in Almondsbury, Kingswood and Yate, has announced that Bradley Stoke’s first-ever NHS dentist will open on Monday 18th May. Patients can now book check-up appointments online at: http://www.phoenixdental.co.uk/bradley_s/ Bookings are also being taken
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A new litter picker, recruited by Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC), was officially welcomed to his role by Mayor Robert Jones and other Councillors at a photo call on Thursday morning at the Brook Way Activity Centre. Dave Dace, whose official job title is ‘Mobile Cleansing Operative’ (MCO), started work this week and has already begun to make an impression
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