I’m trying my luck and posting on the forum as our cat has gone missing from the Palmers Leaze area, and has been missing for at least three weeks. Her name is Gabby and she is black and white, predominately black back and white legs, but one of her front legs as a black spot on it. She also has
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A Bradley Stoke resident has been announced as one of around 40 recipients of a medal issued to mark a century of Sikh presence in the east African country of Uganda. Dr Harmandar Singh Gupta, 72, a resident of the Bluebell Gardens retirement home in Savages Wood Road, is planning to return to the country of his birth in September,
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We’re looking for contributions to the August 2014 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine. If you (or a group / organisation / business / school you are associated with) have something to say, please get in touch. Of interest are: News articles, event reports, details of upcoming events (3rd Aug to 7th Sep), news in brief items, photos, etc.
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People power appears to have won a reprieve for a popular ‘fruit & veg’ business that had reportedly been told it would have to quit the Willow Brook shopping centre due to objections from the Tesco Extra store within the same development. Ronnie’s Fruit & Veg began trading in the town square at the centre on 4th June and had
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As most of you will already know, the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group and Willow Brook Centre successfully completed a long-term project to create a war memorial for our town, which was installed earlier this year in the town square. We are now very proud to invite you all to attend the official memorial dedication ceremony and our very first
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With the 2014 Bradley Stoke Carnival now less than six weeks away, residents are invited to attend a Carnival Open Meeting at 7pm tonight (Tuesday 15th July) in the Oak Hall at the Jubilee Centre, where they can find out more about this year’s event. This year’s ‘International’ themed Community Carnival is on Saturday 23rd August and is shaping up to
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A ‘drop in’ public consultation event at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre on Tuesday (15th July) will give residents a chance to express their views on how Bradley Stoke and other parishes across South Gloucestershire should be developed, protected and improved over the next 13 years. The event focuses on South Gloucestershire Council’s recently-published draft Policies, Sites and Places Plan, which
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The Olympus Academy Trust (OAT) has vacancies for community governors at its two academy schools, Bradley Stoke Community School and Abbeywood Community School. A news item published on the OAT website explains: “Community governors play an important role on the Local Governing Bodies (LGBs) of our schools. The role of governors is crucial for the effective leadership and management of
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Councillors have been told that the project to construct a new primary phase building on the Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) site is over-budget by an estimated £750k, before the first brick has even been laid. A paper presented to a meeting of South Gloucestershire Council’s Children and Young people Committee on 18th June reported that “further scheme development has
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Town councillors are to review a controversial new policy that potentially allows more than one mobile food trader to operate in the car parks of each of Bradley Stoke’s three council-run activity centres, following a series of seemingly contradictory decisions that have led to two potential new operators withdrawing their street trading licence applications. The town council’s Finance Committee agreed
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