Roadworks sign.

Second set of roadworks on Stoke Lane due to start this week

Motorists heading out of Bradley Stoke through Stoke Lodge look likely to find themselves having to negotiate two separate sets of temporary traffic lights on Stoke Lane for the next few weeks. Last week, South Gloucestershire Council began construction of a new zebra crossing on Stoke Lane south of the Painswick Avenue junction. A separate project on the same road due to start this week involves the

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Bradley Stoke Journal magazine covers: Six issues to January 2015.

Copy deadline for the February 2015 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine

We’re looking for contributions to the February 2015 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine. If you (or a group / organisation / business / school you are associated with) have something you think would be of interest, please email: info@bradleystokejournal.co.uk We’re looking for: feature articles, event reports, future events (what’s on), news in brief items, photos, readers’ letters etc. The copy deadline

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People queuing outside the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke after it was was closed due to problems with electrical equipment following a power cut.

Power surge shuts Bradley Stoke Tesco Extra store for six hours

An electrical “power surge” caused computer systems to crash at the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke today, resulting in the store being closed to customers for more than six hours. The Journal understands that tills and other electronic equipment at the store “went down” as a result of the power supply incident and subsequently failed to reset themselves correctly. Journal readers reported

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Almondsbury Roundabout on the A38 Gloucester Road.

More roadworks at M5 junction 16 (Almondsbury) due to start this week

Improvement work on the northbound exit slip road at junction 16 of the M5 (Almondsbury) is due to get under way this week. The Highways Agency is carrying out the work as part of the Government’s Pinch Point programme, which forms part of the growth initiative outlined during the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement in November 2011. According to the agency: “Pinch Points provides smaller scale improvements

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BT Openreach: Fibre broadband is here.

New Year cheer for hundreds still waiting for faster broadband

December finally brought some good news for scores of residents in central Bradley Stoke who had been waiting for months to be able to place an order for superfast broadband after their lines were re-routed into a new fibre-enabled street cabinet back in September. As reported in our December magazine, frustrated customers within the postcode areas said by South Gloucestershire

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