Police are inviting local residents to attend the next Neighbourhood Watch meeting on Tuesday 5th March, from 7:30pm, at the Jubilee Centre. The neighbourhood team will be there to explain more about the scheme and how you can get involved. The meeting is also a chance for current Neighbourhood Watch coordinators and volunteers to meet up. According to the police,
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The Panasonic store at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre has ceased trading in mysterious circumstances. The consumer electronics shop located near the Town Square entrance to the mall closed on Sunday for what was advertised as a two-day period of “stock taking and refurbishment” but has failed to re-open this week. Investigations by The Journal have revealed that references
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Entries have now opened for the 2013 renewal of the Bradley Stoke 10k Run, to be held on Sunday 9th June as part of the town’s Community Festival. Organised by local ladies-only running club Sole Sisters, the race starts and finishes at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. where there will also be free car parking, showers, toilets and
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Local MP Jack Lopresti has welcomed Bradley Stoke’s first-ever residents on a visit to the Houses of Parliament. Mr Lopresti invited Brenda and Roland Cowley, of Stean Bridge Road, for Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQ), a tour of the Palace of Westminster and lunch after reading in a recent newspaper report that they were the first family to move into the
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A Bradley Stoke toddler died as a result of a minor bump to the head sustained in the kitchen of her home, reports the Bristol Post. Flax Bourton Coroner’s Court heard that 16-month Keira Gumeringer fell and hit her head on a fridge at the property in The Valls. When the child began gasping and having trouble breathing, paramedics were
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There was some fantastic football on show down at the Jubilee Field on Saturday afternoon as Bradley Stoke Town FC’s First Team turned the tables on Portville Warriors in a successful game that was won 2-0. This was always going to be a close game as last time the two sides met, Portville came away 2-1 winners. The first half
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A large number of Bradley Stoke transport and community projects stand to benefit from decisions due to be made at a meeting of South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) Southern Brooks Area Forum this week. The forum has £100k to allocate to local transport capital schemes and four of the twelve schemes to be considered for implementation are in Bradley Stoke. In
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Bristol Aztec Rotary Club is gearing up for two major charity events in the coming months. Firstly there is the popular Swimathon from which 40% of the money raised goes to support Rotary Charities and 60% to nominated good causes of the swimmers’ choosing. The Swimathon takes place at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre’s swimming pool on Saturday 9th March from
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Is there any way people from Bradley Stoke can petition or anything about sorting out the roundabout by Hatchet Road and Gypsy Patch Lane? In the morning it will take me 30 minutes just to go straight across the roundabout. It gets jammed packed no one will let anyone out meaning lots of beeping and frustration. It needs to be
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A resident’s suggestion for a picnic area to be created within the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve has been given a cautious welcome by the voluntary group that helps maintain it. The Journal understands the suggestion was made at a recent Town Councillor Surgery event (held monthly at the Willow Brook Centre) and it was passed to local nature expert
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