Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre kicks off a busy programme of holiday events tomorrow (Thursday 5th) with an Easter Fun Day from 11am to 4pm, featuring animals from St Werburghs City Farm. Chicks, lambs and bunnies will be there together with some more exotic creatures including a tarantula, scorpion and giant stick insects from Bristol Zoo’s outreach project. The Easter
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BT accepting orders for 0117 superfast broadband in Bradley Stoke
BT Openreach has announced that subscribers served by the Filton telephone exchange are now able to place orders for superfast fibre broaband but there remains doubt as to how many homes in Bradley Stoke on 0117 lines will be able to benefit from the new technology. The company announced in April last year that Filton would be upgraded in 2012
Continue readingTraffic chaos as petrol pumps start to run dry
Traffic congestion built up around the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke this lunchtime as motorists fearing petrol shortages queued to fill up at the Tesco garage. The queue of vehicles waiting to enter the filling station stretched back to the Three Brooks Roundabout and traffic leaving the centre slowed to a crawl as Tesco staff battled to control the
Continue reading[Forum] Troubled by noisey neighbours in Hornbeam Close?
Anyone else having trouble with the noise coming from a first floor flat as you enter Hornbeam Close on the right? We live opposite and can hear their shouting and music blaring until dawn. Complete lack of respect for anyone. Cheers, HC1
Continue readingLast chance to catch fashion show at The Mall
Mark Heyes and Andrew Barton returned to the Mall at Cribbs Causeway this week for 18 live catwalk shows staged as part of Bristol Fashion Week (BFW). Spread across five days, from 21st – 25th March, BFW allows fashion lovers to indulge in fashion, style and pampering. Guests can sample the delights of an Marks and Spencer 50’s style champagne
Continue readingTown Council’s first-ever litter picker moves to pastures new
A familiar sight on the highways and byways of Bradley Stoke will be seen for the last time today when Dave Dace, the Town Council’s first-ever litter picker, works his final day in the job. The position of Mobile Cleansing Operative (MCO), to give the job its official title, was launched with great fanfare in April 2009 after the Town
Continue readingNeighbourhood Watch group complains about Wheatfield School parking
Inconsiderate parking around a primary school in Bradley Stoke has led to a complaint from a local Neighbourhood Watch group concerned about access for emergency vehicles. Wheatfield Primary School has received a formal letter of complaint from the Harvest Close Neighbourhood Watch group highlighting problems residents are experiencing as a result of “Wheatfield parents/carers parking inconsiderately in and around the
Continue readingGolf course agrees to clean up its act following mud complaints
A local golf course has agreed to implement a set of measures designed to reduce the amount of mud deposited on a busy Bradley Stoke road by construction vehicles visiting the site. A number of local residents had complained about mud covering almost the entire stretch of Woodlands Lane, which was being made worse during periods of wet weather. The
Continue readingScouts get a helping hand from UWE students
Occupational Therapy students from the University of the West of England (UWE) spent two days last week at the Brook Way Activity Centre helping the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group check through its camping equipment. The Town Council has allowed the scouts to site a storage container alongside the centre and the group’s outdoor equipment was recently transferred there from
Continue readingNew MS Therapy Centre up and running
The newly-built West of England Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Therapy Centre opened its doors to patients for the first time last week, following years of fundraising and planning. Construction on the £1.13 million state-of-the-art treatment centre began in June last year and contractors Elliott UK officially handed over the building earlier this month. Situated between Wheatfield Primary School and Bradley Stoke
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