Have your say: Should the lights go out in YOUR street? Bradley Stoke Town Council’s public drop-in session to discuss proposals for part-night street lighting takes place tomorrow (Saturday 4th December) from 10am to 2pm at the Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road. South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) suggestion that Bradley Stoke might like to introduce an overnight switch-off of selected streetlights
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A hand car wash and valeting service looks set to open soon in the car park of Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre. A planning application has been submitted to South Gloucestershire Council by franchise company Waves Car Wash, seeking permission to change of the use of [some of the] land from “car parking” to “hand car wash and valeting
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The delivery of leaflets to more than 3,000 homes in Bradley Stoke has resulted in a surge in the number of votes cast for our two local telephone exchanges in BT’s Race to Infinity competition. The national competition, which calls on residents to demonstrate demand for faster broadband speeds in their area by voting on a special BT website, will
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Local MP Jack Lopresti has recorded a Christmas video message for the troops in Afghanistan. Mr Lopresti, who himself served with the Territorial Army in Afghanistan prior to becoming an MP, recorded the message on College Green, outside the Houses of Parliament. The Faces for the Forces campaign is aiming to collect one million video goodwill messages of support for
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What’s going on with the traffic in Bradley Stoke? The last few days have been ridiculous!
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Abigail Newton Smith, the cerebral palsy sufferer from Bradley Stoke who is about to travel to the USA for a life-changing operation, was featured on BBC1’s Inside Out West programme last night (Monday 29th). Nine-year-old Abigail, who attends Bowsland Green Primary School, is due to undergo the selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) operation at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital on 16th
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The Bradley Stoke Fireworks Display, held annually at the Jubilee Centre, may have to move to another site if health and safety concerns arising from the large attendance cannot be resolved, the Town Council heard last week. Crowds at the event reached five to six thousand in 2009, when numbers were swelled due to the cancellation of the popular Clifton
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Bradley Stoke could soon have no less than three late-night, seven-days-a-week, pharmacies after a rush of planning and licensing applications in the last couple of months. Boots, due to open soon at the Willow Brook Centre, became the first to reveal its hand when it submitted a planning application that included references to a “midnight pharmacy” at its new store.
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The Friends of Jubilee Green (FoJG) group has announced that it has won a grant award of £350 from the Wakeham Trust to go towards its Enablement Project. The money will allow the group to employ the services of a landscape architect to help produce plans and obtain costings for three future projects at the play park on Jubilee Green.
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There’s just a week left to enter the Willow Brook Clinic’s competition to win a course of three free 30-minute massage treatments. The competition, organised in conjunction with The Journal, is being run to mark the first anniversary of the chiropractic and physiotherapy clinic based on the first floor of the Willow Brook Centre. Entries must be received by Tuesday
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