A few years ago some work was done on the roundabout at the junction of Winterbourne Road, Great Stoke Way, and Bradley Stoke Way. This work resulted in the significant narrowing of the entry to, and exit from, Great Stoke Way [map]. I infer that there had been a record of “traffic incidents” at this spot, and that the work
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[Advertising Feature] The UK’s leading retirement developer, McCarthy & Stone, is holding a special information day later this month, to offer anyone over the age of 60 the opportunity to find out more about its forthcoming Later Living development, Brook Court in Bradley Stoke. With construction already well underway at the Savages Wood Road site, McCarthy & Stone is inviting
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A girl from Bradley Stoke has been crowned a UK ‘memory champion’ in a competition contested by over 7,000 children from around the country. Niki Mehta, a Year 6 pupil at the Red Maids’ Junior School in Westbury-on-Trym, saw off competition from 15 other finalists to clinch the 2012 National Junior Memory Championship. She became the new national champion on
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Police are appealing for help to trace a man missing since Tuesday 12th June. Simon Bressington, 27, of Bradley Stoke, has not been since Tuesday evening and failed to turn up for work. Simon (pictured) is described as being white, 5ft 7ins tall, slim but with a tubby stomach. He has very long dark brown hair and a long beard
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Family-owned single price retailer Poundworld opens its new store in Bradley Stoke at 10am today (Thursday 14th June), a day earlier than previously planned. The new Poundworld store at the Willow Brook Centre will help cost conscious shoppers beat the recession by offering a ‘value’ alternative to other high street retailers. With massive savings on leading brands such as Cadbury’s,
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Police are appealing for witnesses following an assault in Bradley Stoke over the Community Festival weekend. The incident occurred at around 4:45pm on Saturday 2nd June, in the vicinity of the Jubilee Centre, where the town’s annual Community Fair was taking place. A 15-year-old teenager was walking along a path near to Merryweather Close in the direction of the Jubilee
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Work is underway to install a new light-controlled pedestrian crossing at the site of two recent accidents on Bradley Stoke Way, close to the Willow Brook Centre. The crossing is part of a scheme of measures being implemented in response to a public petition signed by more than 3,900 people, following a serious accident in September last year in which
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Greggs at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke have been confirmed a top company fundraiser for the 2011 Children in Need appeal – raising a fantastic £6,145. 1,500 of the UK’s leading bakery retailer’s outlets took part in the fundraising effort. Greggs in Bradley Stoke came 5th nationally, but were number one in the South West, outperforming over 200
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A record field of 475 contested today’s Bradley Stoke 10k Run in drizzly weather on the final day of the 2012 Bradley Stoke Community Festival. The new Bradley Stoke Mayor Cllr Charlotte Walker sounded the horn to get the race underway from the Jubilee Centre at 9:30am, sending the contestants off on a six-and-a-quarter mile route along the roads and
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Bradley Stoke’s annual Community Festival attracted another big crowd to the Jubilee Centre today. Although not sunny, the weather was once again kind, with the forecast rain holding off until the last band had finished playing shortly after 6pm. The action got underway at 10:30am when the first matches in the Schools Football Tournament kicked off on the upper
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