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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New primary school on BSCS site already over budget by £750k
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
Continue readingOlympian to inspire young swimmers at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre
Olympian and Team GB breaststroke swimmer Adam Whitehead will inspire South Gloucestershire youngsters at a swimming campaign hosted by Australian swimwear brand Zoggs on Friday 1st August. As part of Zoggs’ national Oceans of Fun Day campaign, the Active Leisure Centres in Bradley Stoke and Yate will be hosting a unique event for 7-14 year olds to experience different aquatic
Continue readingGromits to be reunited at Wheatfield Primary School’s summer fayre
Gromberry and Butterfly, two Gromit sculptures that featured in last year’s massively popular Gromit Unleashed trail, are the star attractions at Wheatfield Primary School’s summer fayre, which takes place on Saturday (5th July), from 12 noon to 3pm. There will be refreshments, craft activities, tombolas, a Gromit figurine raffle, inflatables, strawberries and cream, penalty shoot-out and much more. There will also
Continue readingDiscover wildlife on your doorstep at the Three Brooks BioBlitz event
The Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve will be hosting a real-life wildlife expedition, searching for and documenting all of the site’s weird and wonderful species on Friday and Saturday 4th/5th July. Families will have the opportunity to become wildlife scientists for the day and discover all the amazing creatures that live here in Bradley Stoke. The event, called BioBlitz, is
Continue readingTravellers begin second week of occupation
Travellers at an illegal encampment alongside Bradley Stoke Way have today begun their second week of occupation, despite being given 24 hours to leave the site on Tuesday last week. Four caravans and a number of other vehicles moved onto the roadside verge near Primrose Bridge last Monday morning. They were joined by a fifth caravan a few days later.
Continue readingHilton team brightens up children’s playground
The Hilton Bristol hotel team recently spent three days cleaning-up, preparing and painting the children’s playground in Paddock Close, Bradley Stoke. This children’s playground was last refurbished seven years ago and recently had new soft-padded carpet installed around the play equipment by the town council. In partnership with the council, the Hilton Bristol purchased special paint and equipment to rejuvenate
Continue readingLocal church to launch money advice course
A local Church has joined forces with a debt advice charity and its local Costa Coffee branch to offer money management skills to people in Bradley Stoke. Bridge Community Church, which meets on Sunday mornings at Bradley Stoke Community School, will be running a free personal finance course, set up by charity Christians Against Poverty (CAP), to provide free help to
Continue readingWork starts on bringing faster broadband to central Bradley Stoke
Hundreds of people in the broadband ‘slowspot’ of central Bradley Stoke could soon be able to order new ‘superfast’ services after work began to install a new fibre-enabled telephone cabinet on the corner of Brook Way and Savages Wood Road. Roads served from this cabinet (no. 34) include Crystal Way, Diana Gardens, Kemperleye Way, Penrose Drive, Snowberry Close, The Spinney
Continue readingGetting to know the new mayor: John Ashe
Councillor John Ashe was elected as the new mayor of Bradley Stoke on Wednesday 21st May, and he kindly found some time to answer a few of our questions, so that readers of The Journal could get to know him better. John recalls moving to Bradley Stoke back in 1992, following the birth of his twin boys. He says the
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