Two Christmas cards found just across from Yankee Candle [Woodlands Lane] yesterday. Both had 1st class stamps on so I have dropped them in the post box for the unlucky person that thought they may have lost them. One going to a Bristol address and the other going to Hants (?) Stokeworker
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Wheatfield Primary School in Bradley Stoke launched its Active Ambassadors project on Tuesday (17th December), enrolling students and staff members to help promote sustainable travel. As part of an Active Travel to School project running throughout South Gloucestershire, all of the pupils at Wheatfield Primary School were given the chance to apply to become an Active Ambassador (pupil helper). One pupil
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Telecommunications firm BT has finally connected its first superfast broadband customers in ‘The Herbs’ area of Bradley Stoke, almost three years after announcing the upgrade of the Filton telephone exchange to provide fibre services. The area is the first part of the Bradley Stoke ‘digital ghetto’, consisting of around 4,000 homes in streets not served by Virgin Media’s cable network,
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Churches in Bradley Stoke are inviting everyone in the local community to join them for an open-air carol service at the Willow Brook Centre on Thursday (19th December). The event gets under way at 6pm, with a brass band playing in the town square and free refreshments for all. The carol service proper will start at 6.30pm and lasts until
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Bradley Stoke and Downend residents will be treated to Christmas carols with a difference this year, as members from Bridge Community Church adapt a classic Dickens story for a festive service open to all. On Saturday 21st December in Bradley Stoke and Sunday 22nd December in Downend, local families are invited to the humorous, yet poignant play ‘Bob knew Best’
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A decision by Bradley Stoke Town Council to potentially allow more than one food trader to operate in the car park of each of its three community centres has been criticised by a number of local residents and one of the existing pitch holders. Currently, there is one trader (Ozzy’s Kebabs) permitted to trade at the Brook Way Activity Centre
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Thomas is a two-year-old Tabby cat who has been missing from Ormonds Close for a week now. He was last seen on the 1st of December, wearing his red collar that has a name tag on it with a bell. He is terribly missed, and if you could check garages, sheds and bushes that would be highly appreciated. If you
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The group behind a plan to create a war memorial out of the two granite posts in the Town Square at the Willow Brook Centre has come up with an alternative proposal, five months after its original plan was ridiculed in the national press for being a “memorial for those yet to die”. Instead of using the existing gate posts,
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The owners of a house in Watch Elm Close, Bradley Stoke, are hoping their extravagant Christmas lights display will raise more than £1,000 for a locally-based medical research charity. Mike Checkley and Terry James have decorated the outside of their home with more than forty sets of lights, incorporating a total of around 15,000 individual bulbs, and are inviting people
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I have just moved into Bradley Stoke with my husband. We have found our new neighbours to be lovely and so far have been very happy living here. Unfortunately our new house is chilly! We have found that the original door lets in a lot of cold and also leads to a lot of condensation. We would like to have
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