Staff and pupils at Stoke Lodge Primary School took part in a special assembly on Friday 9th September to mark joining the Olympus Academy Trust (OAT). Also attending the event was Dave Baker, CEO of the trust, who welcomed everyone to their “new school family”. Following a brief dialogue with the pupils about the origin of the trust’s name (it
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A report by Nathan Young, secretary of Bradley Stoke Judo Club. Firstly, we would like to congratulate the Thornbury judoka and friend of the club Sally Conway on her fantastic bronze at the Rio Olympics. Sally produced some fantastic judo and was very unlucky not to find herself in the gold medal fight. Sally is a true inspiration to our
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a daytime burglary in which a quantity of gold jewellery was stolen. It happened in Stanley Mead, Bradley Stoke, between 8.15am and 5.45pm on Tuesday 4th October. Thieves forced the rear doors to get into the house and also stole foreign currency including South African rand, US dollars, Singapore dollars and euros.
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… but before that, motorists will have to put up with a new ten-week lane closure on Bradley Stoke Way. MetroBus contractors Alun Griffiths say they are still hopeful of fully reopening the Bradley Stoke Way (BSW) / Woodlands Lane junction by Christmas, despite a series of delays caused by the discovery of further uncharted underground utilities. As reported in
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Our community herb garden has had a spruce up, as have our welcome planters. We had given up waiting for our planter at the Aztec Roundabout to be put back in place, so Andy and I did it ourselves, which was no mean feat. Even Andy wondered just
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Thwaites’ shire horses were at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre yesterday (Saturday 1st October) as staff at the Aztec Hotel & Spa celebrated winning a top hospitality award. The horses came down from Blackburn to deliver a celebration ale for people to enjoy after Thwaites won the AA award for Hotel Group of the Year. Aztec Hotel & Spa
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The MetroBus ‘rapid transit’ bus network currently being constructed in the Greater Bristol area, including the route through Bradley Stoke, still has no operators and may need to be subsidised once services begin, the BBC has reported. Local councils, who are funding the construction of the network with the help of government money, had planned that MetroBus services would be
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South Gloucestershire Council’s new healthy lifestyles programme, SportsPound, is now live and kicking! If you are currently doing less than 30 minutes of exercise per week and are aged 14+, SportsPound vouchers give you free entry to a range of new and exciting sports sessions in your community. If you are new to sport or are coming back to sport
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Users of First West of England’s 73 and X73 bus routes have complained that the services have become “utterly shocking” and “unreliable” since the latest timetable change on 4th September. Things got off to a poor start over the first couple of days when a failure of First’s IT system led to drivers on some routes in Bristol being unable to
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Staff from the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke are looking for suggestions for further community projects to get involved with after successfully completing their latest assignment, at Patchway Community Centre. Eleven members of staff took a day out from the store to brighten up the small hall at the centre by giving it a lick of paint. Dawn Richards,
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