Bristol Zoo’s last Wow! Gorilla (No. 62) has found its home at Dunkley’s Chartered Accountants in Bradley Stoke. No. 62 was the last unpainted full-sized Wow! Gorilla from Bristol Zoo’s Wow! Gorillas Campaign last year that raised well over £400,000 for vital gorilla conservation work and for the local Bristol charity Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Appeal. The gorilla sculpture was
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The Woods estate agency in Bradley Stoke has submitted a planning application to expand its premises. The branch, housed in the same building as Aldi (off Ferndene), would see its floorspace increased by a third – from 75sqm to 100sqm should the application get the go-ahead from planners. The extra space will be created by adding a 4.6m wide single-storey
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Bike theft, racial abuse and drugs are the main topics of local interest in the latest police newsletter for the Severnside, Stokes & Villages area. It is reported that fifteen suspects were arrested last year following a spate of bike thefts from outside leisure centres, youth clubs, schools. colleges and shops in Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke and Stoke Gifford during
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has moved to clear up confusion over the status of a number of consultations relating to proposed road safety improvement measures on Bradley Stoke Way. The Council had drawn criticism over the delay in publishing the results of its original consultation, held from 20th December 2011 to 8th January 2012, and the fact that it had
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Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School, recently put into ‘special measures’ by Ofsted, looks set to become an academy within the same trust that has operated Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) since the beginning of the year. Dave Baker, headteacher at BSCS, has been running Abbeywood since Ann Duff, the previous head, left suddenly in October last year. Since taking the
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Three former members of staff at a Bradley Stoke care home that was closed down after an undercover operation by a BBC TV programme have pleaded guilty to ill-treating vulnerable patients. Secretly filmed footage broadcast in a Panorama documentary on 31st May 2011 appeared to show vulnerable residents being pinned down, slapped, doused in water and taunted. Avon and Somerset
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The planned investment of nearly £3m of taxpayers’ money into broadband infrastructure within South Gloucestershire might still leave Bradley Stoke without superfast broadband in 2015, according to a report accepted by Councillors at a Cabinet meeting on Monday. South Gloucestershire Council’s Cabinet has agreed to add £2.2m of its own money to the £710k allocated by the Government’s Broadband Delivery
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The 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group has announced the formation of a new Explorer Scout Unit for young people aged 14 to 18. The unit held its first meeting on Friday 6th January and will now meet regularly on Friday nights from 7:30pm to 9:30pm at the Brook Way Activity Centre. Together with its two Beaver Colonies, two Cub Packs
Continue reading‘Snowball’ the gritting vehicle is on standby this weekend after weather forecasts showed an increased likelihood of snow through Saturday night and Sunday morning. The vehicle, one of eleven new gritting vehicles recently purchased by South Gloucestershire Council, was given its name by pupils at Baileys Court Primary School following a district-wide ‘name your gritter’ competition. The competition was staged
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A 30-year-old man from the Oaktree Crescent area of Bradley Stoke has appeared before Northavon Magistrates charged with indecent exposure and burglary in connection with offences in Mautravers Close and Courtlands on Friday 20th January 2012. He was released on court bail to live at an address outside of South Gloucestershire with conditions including an 18-hour curfew between 6pm and
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