Bradley Stoke Town Council has approved an application by Papas Pizzas to trade from the car park of Baileys Court Activity Centre [map] on Thursday and Friday nights. The application was unanimously approved at a Planning Environment & Ameneties Committee meeting on 25th February. Proprietor Santiago Pablo must now obtain a trading licence from South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) and an
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Bradley Stoke Mayor Robert Jones has received a letter of apology from the South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) following the publication of derogatory comments about the town in a Bristol Evening Post (BEP) article. SWRDA Area Director for the West of England and Gloucestershire Ian Knight says he had no editorial control over the article, which carried the headline
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Two Bradley Stoke Councillors are to call upon South Gloucestershire Council to demand better broadband services from BT and other operators serving the area. The move follows a decision by Bradley Stoke Town Council to write to BT and Virgin Media to express concern that “Bradley Stoke is not getting a 21st century service for a 21st century town”. Being
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Thornbury Running Club has been praised for its new aquathlon, staged for the first time last weekend in Bradley Stoke. The event, at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, involved competitors swimming either 500m or 1,000m, then running 5km or 10km. Despite a forecast of thunder, hail and sleet, 86 competitors turned up to race. “Thornbury Running Club have to be congratulated
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Businesses at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre have been criticised by a local resident for their lack of action in addressing an alleged litter problem on the footpaths surrounding the shopping development. Holly Mieville-Hawkins (pictured with husband Luke Palmer), who lives in Dewfalls Drive, has delivered a protest letter to a number of stores at the centre. In the letter,
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Work aimed at reducing the number of accidents at a Bradley Stoke mini-roundabout has begun this week. The roundabout at the junction of Brook Way and Braydon Avenue has seen four personal injury accidents within the space of three years (2005 – 2007), according to South Gloucestershire Council. The Council says it is implementing the following changes at the junction:
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The inaugural meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council’s new Youth Sub-Committee takes place today (Wednesday) at 3pm in the Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road. Councillors decided to form the new sub-committee at a special meeting of Full Council on 25th February, in order to oversee how their “record funding” for youth work in the town is spent. The agenda for
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A branch of the Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts (PQA) is to open soon at Bradley Stoke Community School. The weekend drama school will be launched at an open day on 25th April at the Fiddlers Wood Lane site. An announcement on the PQA website adds: No need to book, just come along and experience the fun of PQA!
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Estate agents CJ Hole are now open for business at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. The previously unannounced move became apparent today (Monday) when the company’s advertising boards outside properties in the town were emblazoned with a “now at the Willow Brook Centre” flash. A source at the company told The Journal that the new office, on the first floor
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A Bradley Stoke Town Councillor is helping Bradley Stoke residents form an association to address local issues. Conservative Cllr Ben Walker contacted residents of The Coppice after reading about their anti-porn demonstration in February, directed at film producer James Edwards, who operates a sex film studio from his property in the quiet cul-de-sac. Now he is encouraging residents from the
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