The 2012 Bradley Stoke Community Festival gets underway at 9:30am today (Friday 1st) with children’s entertainment at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. Traditionally held a week later, the festival has been moved, for this year only, to coincide with HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Today’s entertainment will be provided by the popular Professor Panic’s Circus and children will
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Detailed plans for a multi-million pound ‘rapid transit system’ that will connect Bradley Stoke with the centre of Bristol are on show today (Thursday 31st) at the Willow Brook Centre, between 3pm and 7pm. The scheme aims to provide a “fast and reliable” bus service between north and south Bristol – with modern vehicles and, in places, its own right
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A Bradley Stoke girl who finished second in last year’s Junior Search For a Star competition at the Fry’s club in Keynsham has secured a number of solo roles in an upcoming performance of Les Misérables. Emily Baker is set to appear in the Bristol Amateur Operatic Society Youth production at Bristol’s Regdgrave Theatre next week. Also appearing in the
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Jubilee Celebrations get under way in earnest on Friday this week with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque in Bradley Stoke. The town’s Jubilee Green has secured Fields in Trust status as part of the QEII Fields Challenge and will henceforth be known officially as ‘Queen Elizabeth II Field Jubilee Green’. The trust status, which was legally conferred on the
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Two Bradley Stoke Councillors yesterday defected to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in what appears to be a consequence of some nasty in-fighting within the local Conservative Party. Cllr Ben Walker, a former Bradley Stoke Mayor and District Councillor for the Bradley Stoke North ward, and Cllr Ed Rose, elected to the Town Council in May 2011, were welcomed into
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Bradley Stoke Town Football Club (BSTFC) has announced that last weekend’s charity match which saw the club field 16 squad players from all teams to face a celebrity and ex-pro ‘Mayor’s XI’, ended with £1,400 collected and donated to Heart Radio’s ‘Have A Heart‘ campaign (in association with Childline). BSTFC spokesman Rich Sears said: “There are so many thank yous,
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The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has been forced to change the venue of a public meeting in Bradley Stoke after the school where it was due to take place cancelled the hall booking. Flyers promoting the meeting, to be fronted by UKIP’s national leader Nigel Farage, have been widely distributed in the local area over the past few weeks. These
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Poundworld will be opening at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke in mid-June bringing up to 20 new jobs to the town. Poundworld will be stocking thousands of items, including well-known brands, at an unbeatable price – £1. The popular retailer will be located in the former 8,000 sq. ft. Peacocks unit facing the Willow Brook Centre car park
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The Simpson’s fish & chip shop at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke is to close tomorrow (Saturday 26th May) after nearly two years of trading. Simpson’s is a family-run fish & chip business, with one other outlet in Cheltenham. A decision has been made by the family to run a solo operation. Scott Lahive, Centre Manager for the
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The Mall at Cribbs Causeway is preparing to give away the last of the 10,000 FREE tickets available for its Bristol Jubilee Concert on Saturday 2nd June. The final weekend ticket giveaway will take place this Saturday and Sunday (26th/27th May) at 11am and 2pm from the Upper Level of The Mall, before the last batch of tickets goes on
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