South Gloucestershire Council’s ‘Engage’ Festival of Culture returns to Stoke Gifford this Saturday (7th July), offering a chance to discover and experience new cultures, food and music from around the globe. The free event for the whole family is joined this year by a Festival of Sport that will see hundreds of primary school children from across South Gloucestershire competing
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Levels of vandalism at Bradley Stoke’s play areas show no sign of abating, judging by the latest quarterly Health & Safety report published by the Town Council last week. Three silver birch trees at the Jubilee Green play park, the only ones remaining from the original planting following earlier vandalism, were snapped off at the end of May. At the
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Is it about time we made other areas in Bradley Stoke “no cold calling” zones? Despite having a Trading Standards sticker on my door saying that salespeople can’t call without an appointment, I am continually having to tell traders that I’m not interesting in anything they have to sell. Just today, Safestyle called and were rather sarcastic and rude when
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Avon Fire and Rescue crews from Patchway, Southmead and Speedwell were called to St Mary’s RC Primary School on Webbs Wood Road, Bradley Stoke, yesterday afternoon following reports of smoke seen coming from the building. The incident occurred at 4pm, when pupils had gone home for the day but some staff remained on the premises. On arrival, crews found heavy
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The Almondsbury telephone exchange, which serves much of Bradley Stoke, has once again been overlooked in the latest round of superfast broadband upgrades announced by BT this week. Almondsbury failed to figure in a list of 98 exchanges that constitutes ‘phase 10’ of BT Openreach’s commercial rollout which promises to cover two thirds of the UK by 2014. With the
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Bradley Stoke Town Council moved into the new premises at the Jubilee Centre on Monday 18th June. Details of the new address and telephone numbers can be found on the website. This represents a significant achievement as the building was completed earlier than expected and was well within the budget set. Preliminary indications are that the cost is a little
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Katherine Robinson of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group reports on a recent camp attended by 6 to 8 year-olds from the group’s Beaver section: Beaver camp this year was held at Woodhouse on 16th-17th June 2012 and as you can probably tell, the theme was “Pirates”! As it happened, we had managed to choose one of the wettest Junes
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Children’s rides at this year’s Bradley Stoke Community Festival were considered “very expensive” by some parents, according to one Councillor speaking at a meeting of the Town Council’s Leisure, Youth & Amenities Committee earlier this week. Rides at the Community Fair held on Saturday at the Jubilee Centre are provided by commercial operators in return for a fee that benefits
Continue readingA supply teacher from Bradley Stoke is being tried at Bristol Crown Court on charges of indecently and sexually assaulting three girls of primary school age, reports The Post. John Alway, 59, of Juniper Way, denies attempted rape and three indecent assaults of one girl, two indecent assaults and sexual assault of a second girl and indecent assault and sexual
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Pupils at a Bradley Stoke school have raised more than £900 for people around the world who are living without access to clean water after making and selling tasty toast breakfasts. The children from St Mary’s Primary School took part in a number of activities from February to May to raise money for Catholic aid agency CAFOD’s ‘Give it Up’
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