The Bradley Stoke in Bloom group has announced details of its Best Front Garden competition for 2022. The competition entry form is available to download from the Bradley Stoke Town Council website. Paper copies may be picked up from the town council office. Entries close at 4pm on Thursday 21st July.
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Members of Bradley Stoke Sew and Sos have produced 36 quilts for Project Linus, an organisation which aims to provide a sense of security and comfort to sick and traumatised babies, children and teenagers through the provision of new homemade patchwork quilts and knitted blankets.
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Customers and staff were evacuated from Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre yesterday (Monday 27th June) after the premises were affected by a fire that started in bushes outside the building. Avon Fire & Rescue Service crews from Patchway and Southmead attended the incident following a call to the emergency services at 5.42pm.
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has announced that the greatly delayed new play area at Baileys Court Activity Centre will be opened for public use on Saturday 2nd July. The £105,000 project to redevelop the facility was originally supposed to be completed by the end of August 2021, but setbacks including a failure to obtain planning permission…
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A decorative ‘topper’ that has appeared on the Royal Mail post box in the foyer of Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre is the work of a newly formed group of local ‘yarn bombers’, the Journal can reveal. Post box toppers first became popular in 2020, during the first Covid-19 lockdown, as a way of thanking NHS staff and putting a small on people’s faces…
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Work on Bradley Stoke Town Council’s troubled £105,000 scheme to “refresh” the play area at Baileys Court Activity Centre finally resumed on Monday 23rd May. The council now says it expects the new-look play area to be completed and open to the public by “the end of June”, barring any further unforeseen issues.
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Youth workers and local young people are delighted to once again be hosting a popular two-day package at this year’s Community Festival. The mix of skate park skills and creative arts will include competitions, demonstrations, and ‘have-a-go’ sessions spread over the main festival site at the Jubilee Centre and at the skate park.
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Bradley Stoke Town Council is to stage a beacon lighting event on Thursday 2nd June to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The Bradley Stoke beacon will be one of more than 2,000 lit throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories…
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A popular car boot sale that takes place near Bradley Stoke will reopen for the 2022 season on Easter Sunday (17th April), organisers have told the Journal. The weekly Trench Lane Boot Sale usually runs until the end of October. Fields at the site were mown today (Friday 15th April) in preparation for Sunday’s reopening.
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Bradley Stoke Town Council’s troubled £105,000 project to “refresh” the play area at Baileys Court Activity Centre has suffered another embarrassing setback. The latest delay has been caused by the contractors making a “surveying error”, meaning that some items of new play equipment won’t be able to fit in their approved positions.
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