[Advertising Feature] The UK’s leading retirement developer, McCarthy & Stone, is holding a special information day later this month, to offer anyone over the age of 60 the opportunity to find out more about its forthcoming Later Living development, Brook Court in Bradley Stoke. With construction already well underway at the Savages Wood Road site, McCarthy & Stone is inviting
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A girl from Bradley Stoke has been crowned a UK ‘memory champion’ in a competition contested by over 7,000 children from around the country. Niki Mehta, a Year 6 pupil at the Red Maids’ Junior School in Westbury-on-Trym, saw off competition from 15 other finalists to clinch the 2012 National Junior Memory Championship. She became the new national champion on
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A party of students from Bradley Stoke’s twin town of Champs-sur-Marne (France) visited Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) for a day earlier this month. The students were welcomed by members of the Bradley Stoke Twinning Association before going on to take part in a day of activities at the school, the Leisure Centre and the Willow Brook Centre. In the
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Local residents have been invited to have their say at a meeting to be held on the site of Bristol Rovers’ proposed new 21,700-seater stadium in Stoke Gifford. South Gloucestershire Council’s Development Control (West) Sites Inspection Sub-Committee is visiting the site this Friday (11th May) and supporters and objectors will be given the opportunity to address Councillors during the meeting.
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The female swan from the Three Brooks Nature Reserve lake was today found in distress by a dog walker, who thought the swan may have a broken leg. The RSPCA were called and were met at the lake by two committee members from the Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group (TBNCG), Sara Messenger and Gill Smith. The hen was, fortunately, not
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A survey conducted by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has confirmed a high level of demand for improved broadband speeds in Bradley Stoke. A report analysing the results of the survey, which was carried out from November 2011 to Febraury 2012, shows that the number of Bradley Stoke residents responding was the third highest of all towns and parishes in the
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The Avon Coroner has delivered a verdict of accidental death in the case of a Bradley Stoke man who suffered a cardiac arrest while kayaking on the River Frome. Iain Woodcock, 33, was helping fellow kayakers across a weir when a log slammed into his boat and pushed him towards a swirling “cauldron” of water. Mr Woodcock, who had a
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The West of England MS Therapy Centre will be opening the doors of its brand new centre in Bradley Stoke to local businesses on Monday 30th April. This exclusive event will be the first Open Evening at the Centre which opened in February 2012. Local businesses are being invited to come along between 4pm and 7pm for a chance to
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The Parish Council in Stoke Gifford has objected to Bristol Rovers’ plans to build a new 21,700 seater stadium on land owned by the University of the West of England (UWE). Councillors have joined residents of the nearby Cheswick Village housing development in expressing concern over the effect the stadium will potentially have on traffic congestion and parking issues. In
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A popular car boot sale that takes place near Bradley Stoke is to re-open for the 2012 season at the beginning of May. The Trench Lane Boot Sale, held on Sundays on a farmland site opposite the entrance to Woodlands Golf Club [map], will open for the first time this year on Sunday 6th May 2012. UPDATE: Re-opening postponed until
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