Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has been chosen as the venue for an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record™ for the longest continuous hockey match. The event, organised by South Gloucestershire Hockey Club (SGHC) and held over the weekend of 28th/29th May, will raise money for the Cots for Tots Appeal at St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol. The current
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The Bradley Stoke Safer and Stronger Community Group meets on Tuesday (12th April) at Baileys Court Activity Centre, Baileys Court Road (7pm start). The group allows residents to work together with the police, fire service, health service and councils to improve the local community and have a say about the services they receive. This month’s meeting will review progress on
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Bradley Stoke Community Radio Association (BSCRA) has announced that it has been awarded a licence for first its first FM transmission, which will take place in June over the period of the town’s Community Festival. BSCRA Chair Stephen Poole told The Journal: “Ofcom has approved the application for our ‘Restricted Service Licence‘, which means we can broadcast from 1st –
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A visit by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to Bradley Stoke planned for today has had to be cancelled “for operational reasons”, according to a Liberal Democrat spokesperson. The visit first came to light on BBC Radio Bristol news bulletins this morning (Friday 8th), where it was announced that: “The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is to make a flying
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A party of 35 students from Bradley Stoke’s twin town of Champs-sur-Marne (France) visited Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) earlier this week. BSCS French teacher Sheriban Fekaj welcomed the exchange group to the school on Wednesday and has sent us this report: “We have been extremely pleased to welcome 35 students from Champs-sur-Marne and their teacher, Priscilla Hellier, to BSCS
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BREAKING NEWS We’ve just heard that the Filton exchange, which serves 0117 numbers within Bradley Stoke, is to be upgraded to superfast fibre optic broadband in 2012. BT press release: BT today announced that more 25,000 more homes and businesses in Bristol and nearby towns will have access to super-fast fibre broadband by the end of next year at the
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Representatives from the Bradley Stoke Journal recently attended a meeting organised by South Gloucestershire Liberal Democrats to discuss the state of play in the campaign to bring faster broadband to our town. The meeting, attended by representatives from telecoms giants BT and Virgin Media, was organised to demonstrate the Lib Dems’ manifesto commitment to “work with all South Gloucestershire residents
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An eleven-year-old schoolgirl has raised more than £400 for the couple who lost two of their sons in the Merryweather Close fire tragedy. Chloe Webster, a student at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), didn’t know the Whitton family but felt so moved by their loss that she decided to stage a three-mile sponsored run through the town to help raise
Continue readingA local tennis club is staging two weeks of junior coaching camps over the Easter holidays. The courses at Almondsbury Tennis Club run from Monday 11th to Friday 15th April 2011 (10am-12pm each day) and from Monday 18th to Thursday 21st April (10am-12.30pm). The cost for a week is £30 for members and £35 for non-members. Children who attend the
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BBC Bristol reports today that a would-be thief became trapped for four hours in a clothes recycling bin at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre as he tried to steal used clothes. The man had to be cut free by fire officers after he was helped into the bin by an accomplice. CCTV footage on the BBC News website shows the
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