Looking for Anne Taylor, of this area, maybe living in the area around 2001. Anne was a friend of the family. Have not heard from her in a few years. Her last post on Friends Reunited mentions the Bradley Stoke area. People may contact me at: rcms AT aol.com
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The next meeting of the Lakeside Residents’ Association will be held at The Orchard Room, Baileys Court Activity Centre, 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm, on 14th June 2010. New members welcome. Area covered: Brake Close, Burden Close, Fennel Drive, Juniper Way, Lavender Way, Marjoram Place, Meadow Way, Sherbourne Ave, The Coppice and The Dell.
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I am after info on whether the Trench Lane car boot sale is open on a Saturday as I have been told it is but I can only see it advertised being there on Sundays can anyone please verify what days it is there please?
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Bradley Stoke had its first win playing at home against Wrington BC on Wednesday 19th May. Well done to Dave Chatt who captained the winning team. Thanks are due to Jim Gregory our Level 2 Coach, who has worked hard to bring our new members up to scratch. Everyone is saying how much they are enjoying the game, and we
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Ben Walker (Conservative) was elected the new Mayor of Bradley Stoke at last night’s Annual General Meeting of the Town Council. He received the ceremonial chain of office from outgoing Mayor Mark Forsyth, who had previously announced that he had raised a total of £6,735 for his two nominated charities during his year in office. The money in the Mayor’s
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Parents of children attending Holy Trinity School in Bradley Stoke are calling for a safer pedestrian crossing on busy Pear Tree Road after several “near misses”. The road is a main access route in the town, but despite having a zebra crossing [Google Streetview], parents claim that cars are still exceeding the speed limit and putting children’s lives at risk.
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A controversial planning application for the construction of a respite care centre on land off Wheatfield Drive has gone to appeal after South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) failed to determine the case within the required eight week period. The application, registered with SGC on 26th February, angered local residents and Town Councillors because it altered access arrangements established in an earlier
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Interesting article (Toasting the new politics) from Paul Barltrop, BBC Political Editor for the West of England, who managed to get Conservative and Lib Dem activists from Bristol North west together to chat on television about their parties’ parliamentary marriage. Could we see a similar love-in on Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC), where the Tories out number the Lib Dems
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A profile of Bradley Stoke’s new MP Jack Lopresti in The Daily Telegraph claims that the former mortgage broker received his “state education” at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS). Somehow I don’t think that’s correct. By my calculation, Mr Lopresti, born in 1969, would have attended secondary school in the 1980s. BSCS opened in September 2005.
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A community football tournament organised by the local police team is to help raise funds to send a five-year-old boy to the USA for a life-changing operation. The Bradley Stoke Community Shield five-a-side football tournament, to be held on Saturday 5th June at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, will raise money to help cerebal palsy sufferer Toby Cox. Family and friends
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