The members, staff and Committee of the West of England MS Therapy Centre have announced that their new centre in Bradley Stoke will be officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal on Wednesday 31st October 2012. The West of England MS Therapy Centre is a centre of excellence for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) to receive therapies and support from
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Do you care about your community? Do you want to be heard and get things done? Then why not come along to the next Safer Stronger Community Group (SSCG) meeting for Bradley Stoke? SSCGs influence how services are delivered locally, establish longer-term plans to improve areas, help prevent future problems, and deal with current local issues. NEXT MEETING: Tuesday 14th August, 7pm
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A senior Post Office manager has reiterated the organisation’s stance that opening a branch at the Willow Brook Centre would affect the viability of other post offices in the area. The news was revealed at last week’s meeting of the Town Council’s Planning Committee, where the content of a letter from Tony Jones, Post Office Regional Network Manager (Wales &
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With the London 2012 Games now just three days away, there’s a chance to have your photo taken with an Olympic torchbearer at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre this afternoon. Maggie Glastonbury, who carried the Olympic flame through Bristol on 23rd May, will be bringing her Olympic Torch along between 12pm and 2pm. People will be able to have their
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A house fire in which two young boys died most likely started in a laundry basket, an inquest has heard. McKenzie Whitton, aged seven, and Charlie Whitton, five, were killed in the blaze at their home in Bradley Stoke’s Merryweather Close in the early hours of Saturday 19th March 2011. Assistant Deputy Coroner for Avon, Dr Simon Fox, said the
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) is relying on a massive increase in public transport patronage in order to save the North Fringe of Bristol from gridlock, it emerged at a public inquiry this week. The Council is proposing to allow the building of around 12,000 new homes in the North Fringe area over the next 15 years, with around 8,000 in
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Councillor urges Committee to go ahead with plan to close a major road through Patchway – despite being one of 4,137 signatories of a petition to keep it open. A local councillor has made an astonishing U-turn in his opinion on South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) plan to close Patchway’s Highwood Road to general traffic. Cllr Brian Hopkinson, a Town Councillor
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Levels of vandalism at Bradley Stoke’s play areas show no sign of abating, judging by the latest quarterly Health & Safety report published by the Town Council last week. Three silver birch trees at the Jubilee Green play park, the only ones remaining from the original planting following earlier vandalism, were snapped off at the end of May. At the
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Avon Fire and Rescue crews from Patchway, Southmead and Speedwell were called to St Mary’s RC Primary School on Webbs Wood Road, Bradley Stoke, yesterday afternoon following reports of smoke seen coming from the building. The incident occurred at 4pm, when pupils had gone home for the day but some staff remained on the premises. On arrival, crews found heavy
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The Almondsbury telephone exchange, which serves much of Bradley Stoke, has once again been overlooked in the latest round of superfast broadband upgrades announced by BT this week. Almondsbury failed to figure in a list of 98 exchanges that constitutes ‘phase 10’ of BT Openreach’s commercial rollout which promises to cover two thirds of the UK by 2014. With the
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