News from an allotment holder at Hortham Farm, Almondsbury It’s been quite a busy time on the allotment with clearing and composting to be done. I have been pleasantly surprised at how long summer vegetables have continued to be productive, I certainly didn’t expect to be picking summer purple sprouting in December! The shallots, onions and garlic I planted in
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Carol Baker reports on the progress of the town’s new community choir. In September 2012, members of the public attended a singing event at Bradley Stoke Community School where they learnt four songs and then presented a concert. The event went so well, it was suggested they start up their own Bradley Stoke community choir. Chairperson Carol Baker and Membership
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Residents of Bradley Stoke and Stoke Gifford say they were troubled by a strange high pitched noise in the area last night (Thursday/Friday 13/14th Decemebr). Reports on Twitter described the noise as “really high pitched” and likened it to “drilling” and “blending”, with many authors complaining that they were unable to get to sleep because of it. Further comments on
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A survey launched this week aims to find out how people feel about living in Bradley Stoke, whether residents are satisfied with existing community facilities/activities and whether there is a need for any new community groups or activities to be developed for the town. The consultation is being carried out by Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP) on behalf of Bradley
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Bradley Stoke residents of all ages are being invited to help design the town’s own fully-playable community video game during a 48-hour ‘game-jam’ at the Willow Brook Centre this weekend. The ‘VGM-a-thon’ is being organised by the team behind Bradley Stoke Radio’s VGM Awesome show, broadcast weekly on Monday nights between 8pm and 10pm, which focuses on the music tracks
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St Mary’s Old Boys RFC’s Under-15s have been crowned champions of the Bristol Junior Combination Cup. They played the final against Nailsea and Backwell on Sunday at a neutral venue in Bristol. They won the game 27-8, showing a fantastic team performance. Head Coach, Mike Reed said he was very proud of the team: “It was a good whole squad
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The car park of the Willow Brook shopping centre in Bradley Stoke became the focus of bird watchers from across the west over the weekend, all eager to witness an invasion by a rare visitor to this part of the country. Since they were first spotted on Friday afternoon, a flock of up to 45 waxwings that has chosen the
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Numerous Christmas fairs being held at local schools this weekend mark the start of the build up to the festive season for families in Bradley Stoke. Wheatfield Primary School gets the action underway with its Christmas Fayre from 5pm this afternoon, closely followed by Baileys Court Primary School, whose Christmas Fair runs from 5:30pm to 8pm. Earlier in the afternoon,
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The Bradley Stoke Journal was paid a remarkable tribute by Google earlier this week when our stories occupied all ten of the top ten Google News search results for the term “Bradley Stoke“. Google News is a news aggregator service that brings together stories from selected news sources around the world. Only a limited number of respected websites have their
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None of the roads in Bradley Stoke warrant being considered for repair, according to a report presented to last week’s meeting of the Southern Brooks Area Forum. Councillors on the Forum, which covers Bradley Stoke, Filton, Frenchay, Stoke Park, Patchway, Stoke Gifford and Winterbourne, were given £60,000 to allocate to highway maintenance schemes in the area and they were asked
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