The Willow Brook Centre’s car park in Bradley Stoke has been awarded the ‘Park Mark‘ Safer Parking Award for the second year in a row. Park Mark is an initiative of Chief Police Officers aimed at reducing crime in public parking areas, a very welcome initiative as nationally, vehicle crime accounts for a high percentage of all crime (up to
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The Avon Coroner has delivered a verdict of accidental death in the case of a Bradley Stoke man who suffered a cardiac arrest while kayaking on the River Frome. Iain Woodcock, 33, was helping fellow kayakers across a weir when a log slammed into his boat and pushed him towards a swirling “cauldron” of water. Mr Woodcock, who had a
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A youth centre to which young people from Bradley Stoke were directed after the Brook Way youth club was closed down last year is facing closure from April 2013 as part of cost-cutting plans proposed by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). Interim measures put in place following Bradley Stoke Town Council’s decision to terminate its youth provision contract with Southern Brooks
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Jack Lopresti, MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, is bracing himself for a 26.2 mile challenge when he tackles the Virgin London Marathon this weekend. Mr Lopresti, who admits he is “not really built for running”, has been undergoing a gruelling training schedule since Christmas to gear up for Sunday’s race. The MP will be joining over 35,000 other runners
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Bradley Stoke councillors are stepping up their campaign against the town’s ‘bus drought’. The campaign is in response to next month’s (20th May) planned bus service cuts by Wessex Connect, which will leave the whole of the south of Bradley Stoke without a daytime bus service for six days of the week. South Gloucestershire Council’s Integrated Transport Unit (ITU) has
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Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Shopping Centre has launched a Facebook page to promote business and improve community interaction. The centre is managed by Bristol-based commercial property specialists Colliers International. Willow Brook Manager Scott Lahive said the page had already proved a big success celebrating Easter attractions – as well as promoting the best bargains. He said: “We have already had
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The West of England MS Therapy Centre will be opening the doors of its brand new centre in Bradley Stoke to local businesses on Monday 30th April. This exclusive event will be the first Open Evening at the Centre which opened in February 2012. Local businesses are being invited to come along between 4pm and 7pm for a chance to
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Bradley Stoke’s Council-owned cricket pitch at Baileys Court could be out of action for months following an unexplained incident in which weedkiller appears to have been applied across all ten wickets. The damage came to light just over four weeks ago, when staff noticed the grass was starting to die off, and experts brought in by the Council have since
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Local resident Mike Trevelyan has come up with a unique way of raising money for St Peter’s Hospice with a sponsored cycle ride taking in all 92 Football and Premier League clubs in England and Wales in just 92 days! Cycling fan fan Mike, 21, from Little Stoke, will be undertaking the trek from 2nd May to 1st August in
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A charity swimming event staged at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre by the local branch the Rotary Club in March has raised thousands of pounds for good causes. Seventy-five swimmers from fourteen teams were all out to challenge themselves in aid of Rotary charities such as Music Rules and charities or good causes of their own choosing by participating in the
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