Residents in south Bradley Stoke, plus others in Little Stoke and Stoke Gifford, have been informed that their water supplies will be cut for up to 12 hours on Thursday night and Friday morning (15th/16th May), due to “essential work” being carried out by Bristol Water. The utility company says the work will be undertaken between 7pm on Thursday and
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Bradley Stoke residents who recently complained about a spate of overflowing dog waste bins around the town have reacted angrily to the sight of council workers removing a large number of the receptacles. Several emails about overflowing bins were received by The Journal over the Christmas holidays and there was another surge in activity during March, with several readers providing
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Just out of interest, is anyone living adjacent to the Willow Brook Centre noticing a significant increase in rats? I’ve had poison down since January and although it is eaten, and I put new down, it keeps going… My neighbours are reporting a lot of rats in their gardens as well. It’s been reported to the Willow Brook Centre manager,
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In this article first published in our May magazine, Derrick Powell, Bradley Stoke Community Speed Watch Coordinator (pictured above, left), describes how the group operates and what its objectives are. We organise teams comprised of a minimum of three volunteers to conduct speed watches on the roads in and around Bradley Stoke. We work in conjunction with the police and are
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A dramatic incident which saw a herd of cows escape from an overturned trailer and run loose through the streets of Bradley Stoke for over two hours hit the national headlines over the bank holiday weekend. The drama started when a trailer transporting the cattle overturned at ‘Rabbit Roundabout’ (junction of Bradley Stoke Way and Winterbourne Road) at around 12.15pm
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Bradley Stoke Mayor Brian Hopkinson’s plan to see multiple food traders in the car parks of the town council’s three community centres suffered a serious setback during April after two key votes went against him. Cllr Hopkinson has been strongly promoting the idea since it was first raised at the council’s Strategic Planning Meeting last September and it was unanimously
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The opening day of the Trench Lane Car Boot Sale for the 2014 season has been put back by a week due to wet conditions at the site. The popular car boot sale that takes place just over the motorway bridge from Bradley Stoke [map] was due to start again on Sunday (4th May), but the organisers have postponed the
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Students from two local schools will be staging a unique dance performance at the Willow Brook shopping centre in Bradley Stoke on Monday afternoon (28th April). The student dancers, from Meadowbrook Primary School and Patchway Community College, will be wearing colourful costumes and performing fun, contemporary dances with a retro 60s teenager theme. The performance lasts around 10 minutes and will be staged
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Students and staff at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) have raised more that £1,400 for a charity that promotes organ donation and post-transplant activities. The money was raised in memory of Sarah Port, a BSCS student who sadly passed away last summer whilst on holiday with her family. Kevin Mashford, a representative of Transplant Sport, attended a Year 9 assembly
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has been successful in obtaining £200,000 from South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) towards the cost of building a replacement skate park at a new location within the grounds of Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre. The council favours an ‘in situ spray concrete’ design for the new park, which is said to have greatly reduced repair and maintenance costs
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