There was a welcome return to sunny conditions for the Bradley Stoke 10k Run today, following two rainy years in 2011 and 2012. A record field of 567 runners set out from the Jubilee Centre at 9.30am, beating the previous record turn out by almost a hundred. First home after completing the six-and-a-quarter mile course that takes in the Three
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Fine weather once again drew a big crowd to Bradley Stoke’s Jubilee Centre for the main day of the annual Community Festival. The action got under way at 11.30am when the first matches in the Schools Football Tournament kicked off on the upper pitch. Youngsters from local schools battled it out in a competition where marks for fair play were
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The Journal is pleased to announce that Leanne Robinson is the lucky winner of our exclusive prize draw to win a year’s free membership at the Anytime Fitness gym in Bradley Stoke. Leanne’s entry was drawn out of the hat by Scott Lahive, manager of the Willow Brook Centre, where the local Anytime Fitness gym is based. The free prize
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The 2013 Bradley Stoke Community Festival gets under way at 9.30am today (Friday 7th) with children’s entertainment at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. Professor Panic presents his range of circus skills in the Big Top, alongside Steve the Bubbleman and a bouncy castle. Refreshments will be served alongside a range of local craft and community stalls. The Friends
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Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre officially opened its doors to SOHO Coffee Co. this week. It is the first time that the outlet, which offers fresh food and organic fair trade coffee, has been located in a leisure centre and its opening celebrates the culmination of a larger programme of investment by Active Leisure Centre operator Circadian Trust. Trustees Sid Ralphs
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Avon and Somerset Police say they have made an arrest following reports from people living in Patchway and Bradley Stoke about a man acting suspiciously in gardens, looking into homes. A number of people called the police on Sunday afternoon, 2nd June, with two families challenging a man at their open back doors. A 44-year-old man of no fixed abode
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has been reviewed under a new Ofsted framework and received an overall rating of ‘good’ by the inspectors. The school scored better than it did in 2009, although the overall score given in 2009 was ‘outstanding’ because the assessment criteria were slightly different. We spoke to the Executive Head Teacher, Dave Baker, in order to
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[Advertising Feature] There’s still time to enter the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine’s exclusive free prize draw to win a year’s free gym membership at Anytime Fitness, Bradley Stoke. Anytime Fitness is the world’s largest 24-hour gym chain with over 2,000 sites worldwide. There are currently three sites in Bristol, one of them located in the Willow Brook Centre at the
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Two fearless members of staff from a Bradley Stoke opticians recently took to the skies to raise money for Bristol Eye Hospital. Emma Norris and Sania Mohammed from Specsavers in the Willow Brook Centre bravely took part in a sky dive on Sunday 19th May to raise money for Above & Beyond. They each raised £135 to do the jump
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A Bradley Stoke town councillor has quit the Conservatives and become independent after refusing to allow herself to be associated with what she describes as “politically induced child’s play”. Cllr Charlotte Walker, who has just stood down following her year’s term as Mayor of Bradley Stoke, has dropped the local Conservative Party and become an independent member of the town
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