A new set of long-term roadworks at Aztec West gets under way today (Monday 16th May). The scheme, which involves widening the A38 southbound approach to the Aztec West Roundabout, widening the eastern side of the roundabout to provide four lanes, installing new light-controlled crossings for pedestrians and cyclists across three arms of the roundabout and widening the shared use footway/cycleway either side of the
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By Tomi Hernija & Mike Carr, 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group The Water Rats (a.k.a 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group’s water activity unit) are ready and kitted out for another exciting year of water activities. After a very positive start last year, we plan to get over 250 Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers “on the water” to experience traditional raft
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[Advertising Feature] The Bradley Stoke Journal is offering readers the chance to win a year’s free gym membership at Anytime Fitness Bradley Stoke in an exclusive prize draw that is open until 31st May 2016. Anytime Fitness is the world’s largest 24hr gym chain with over 3,000 sites worldwide. There are currently four sites in Bristol, one of them located in
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My wife and I sadly witnessed a mindless act of destruction yesterday on the big hill in the nature reserve. On our walk we saw several teenagers on the hill and 5 minutes later a fire broke out where they were standing which quickly grew out of control. We called the police and fire service to attend and confronted the
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The Olympus Academy Trust (OAT), which currently comprises four local schools, including founding member Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), has announced that it is in talks with four further schools about possibly joining the trust. The news comes just weeks after the government announced that all schools will be required to become academies by 2022, although OAT says it had
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By Katherine Robinson of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group. As regular readers will know, the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group was able to start its own marching band earlier this year, thanks to winning a Vodafone Community Connection Award that was promoted through The Journal. We are now very excited to be in a position to offer spaces to
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Bradley Stoke’s new skate park was officially opened by Mayor Roger Avenin on Saturday 23rd April. The new concrete park, in the grounds of Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, was commissioned by the town council at a cost now approaching £300,000. It is a replacement for a much smaller skate park on the same site that had reached the end of
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By Jim Aitken, community liaison officer at Alun Griffiths Ltd MetroBus contractor Alun Griffiths Ltd have been granted extended working hours by the planning department of South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). Where the construction programme will benefit, we shall make use of these extended working hours to expedite the delivery of critical areas of the construction. Extended working hours are only
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. First, our most ‘eggciting’ news – on 2nd April, Brooke our female swan (pen) laid her first egg! Our bird expert Rob Williams says: “Eggs are laid at roughly two day intervals and are brooded by both parents, who take it in turns to sit whilst the
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A popular car boot sale that takes place near Bradley Stoke is due to re-open for the 2016 season this weekend. The weekly Trench Lane Boot Sale, held on Sundays on a farmland site opposite the entrance to Woodlands Golf Club [BS32 4JZ, map], will open for the first time this year on Sunday 1st May. As in previous years, the
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