To mark the Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB) group’s first six months, there will be a public meeting at the Jubilee Centre on Tuesday (26th November), starting at 7.30pm. As well as sharing mince pies and non-alcoholic mulled wine, the group will be sharing their progress to date and their (ambitious) plans for the future. There will also be an
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Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB) is going from strength to strength with two recent big achievements, write group members Geoff Roach and Sara Messenger. We are taking part in the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) ‘In Your Neighbourhood’ scheme, which provides smaller volunteer-led community groups, such as ourselves, the opportunity to get involved with the wider Britain in Bloom initiative (which celebrates
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Hopes that people living in one of Bradley Stoke’s broadband ‘slow spots’ might be able to subscribe to new superfast (24Mbps+) services in time for Christmas have been dashed after BT quietly put back the ‘first order’ date to the end of the year. The telecommunications giant announced in April 2011 that it would be upgrading its Filton telephone exchange
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I took my daughter to Bradley Stoke Library today (Saturday 9th November) and it was closed – the staff were sat outside on strike. My daughter needed a book for her homework. What kind of message are we sending out to our youth? If the employees of the library are unhappy, why don’t they exercise their rights to vote with
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Two-year-old from Bradley Stoke completes challenge despite undergoing chemotherapy. In the August edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine, we wrote about Jessica Abrahams’ sponsored challenge to visit all 80 sculptures in the Gromit Unleashed public art exhibition. Here, Jessica’s mum Melissa has written to tell us how she got on. I’m pleased to say that Jessica completed her Gromit
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I am contacting you today to try and reach out to any childminders who may be able to help me. Me and my partner, Joanna, are struggling to find anyone able to help out with picking up our child Jack from Meadowbrook Primary School and looking after him for an hour. We were caught out with after school club because
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Our cat seems to be either lost, or even stolen, from Great Meadow Road in Bradley Stoke. She is a light grey cat with white stripes (grey & white tabby). She did have a red collar on with a ID clip with our name and telephone number on it. She has been missing now for over a month. This is
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has announced that Bradley Stoke Library will be closed tomorrow (Saturday 28th September) as a result of industrial action by staff. Members of the UNISON union have voted for a one-day strike in response to changes to council policies on enhancements and allowances paid to staff, which are being introduced on 1st October. From that date,
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Bristol Fashion Week (BFW) Autumn/Winter 2013 was launched at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway yesterday (Wednesday 25th September), hosted by Mark Heyes, dressed in a tartan kilt, and Andrew Barton sporting a tartan tie, and supported by John Lewis and Marks & Spencer. The audience enjoyed an exclusive catwalk show previewing an hour’s worth of this season’s latest fashion, all available
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The 1st Little Stoke Scout Group are inviting members of the public to join them climbing the wall which will be at the Willow Brook shopping centre in Bradey Stoke, and find out more about modern Scouting in north Bristol They will be there from 2pm until 5pm on Saturday 28th September, allowing shoppers to climb the wall under the
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