Sign displayed in the car park of the Brook Way Activity Centre.

Parking easier after surgery brings in disciplinary measures for staff

The car parking situation at Bradley Stoke Surgery has improved significantly after staff at the doctors’ practice were told, in January, that it would become a “disciplinary offence” to park on the site, a meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Planning Committee has heard. Patients of the surgery had complained that they were finding it impossible to find a parking

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BT Openreach: Fibre broadband is here.

Superfast broadband upgrade: ‘Exchange only’ subscribers must wait longer

A “considerable number” of Bradley Stoke homes that are due to be connected to superfast fibre broadband through a state-aided investment programme will have to wait longer to receive the new service because they are on ‘exchange only’ (EO) lines, The Journal has learned. The majority of phone lines are connected to a telephone exchange (in this case, Almondsbury) via

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Work at BT Cabinet no. 35 on Webbs Wood Road, Bradley Stoke.

Work under way to bring faster broadband to 01454 numbers in Bradley Stoke

Work is finally under way to bring faster broadband services to the first of around 3,500 homes in Bradley Stoke that are connected to the Almondsbury telephone exchange (serving 01454 numbers) and have no access to the Virgin Media cable network. The homes that will benefit lie within ‘intervention areas’ in which BT, Virgin Media and other prospective network providers

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Brook Court residents David Tovey (left) and Roger Grimshaw.

Brook Court residents appeal to council for help in solving parking crisis

Residents of an apartment complex in Bradley Stoke, who claim they have been provided with only half the number of car parking spaces than are actually needed, have appealed to the town council for help. Representatives of the residents’ association at Brook Court, a 50-unit ‘later living’ development recently constructed on Savages Wood Road, near the Three Brooks public house,

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