Bradley Stoke Radio, which is gearing up to broadcast on FM over the Community Festival in June, is to stage a free training course in radio production this month. The hands-on course, run as three two-hour sessions held over a period of two weeks, will cover how to create features, jingles, adverts and how to produce a short radio show.
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The Town Council has announced that the Bradley Stoke farmers’ & artisans’ market has changed to the last Friday of every month, starting tomorrow (Friday 28th January 2011). The market was trialled on three Wednesdays in October, November and December last year and organisers have now decided to make it a permanent fixture. Held in the Town Square at the
Continue readingResidents in Bradley Stoke are being asked to be on the look out for a white and ginger cat that went missing on Saturday 22nd January from The Culvert. The owners write: Fred went missing around noon on the 22nd of January 2011. He is a housecat who hardly ever goes out, so we are really worried that he has
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A Bradley Stoke woman has written a book that she feels will give hope and ideas to other parents who are trying to connect with an autistic child. Renitha Tutin, who has lived locally since 1997, has written the book to share the experiences and strategies she and her husband have used to help their autistic son develop, understand and
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This really is getting beyond a joke: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4531-bt-announce-41-market-towns-to-benefit-from-super-fast-broadband.html How on Earth, in the South West, can they justify giving fibre to the cabinet to places like Westbury, Devizes, Dartmouth and Wimbourne before they properly complete the cities? Jack Lopresti should be asking some very serious questions about this now as it looks as if we’re not even likely to get
Continue readingResidents in Bradley Stoke are being asked to be on the look out for a 13-year-old striped ginger cat that went missing about a week ago from the Beaufort Crescent area of Stoke Gifford: The distraught owner writes: “My girls cry every night for him! He has a twin brother at home. We believe he may have wandered off due
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Journal reader Owen Richards reports: A dog was rescued from the lake in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, Bradley Stoke, earlier today (at about 4pm), having presumably gone on the ice and fallen through. A crew from Avon Fire & Rescue on scene broke through the ice and eventually used an inflatable boat to get to the dog (Morgan,
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The Almondsbury telephone exchange, which serves much of Bradley Stoke, has made it onto the leaderboard of a national competition designed to measure the demand for faster broadband connections. After attracting more than 1,000 votes from local residents and businesses, Almondsbury has joined a select group of (currently) 18 exchanges, out of 2,495 eligible, at the head of BT’s Race
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The Bristol Evening Post reports that firefighters were called to open land near Ellicks Close in Bradley Stoke yesterday afternoon to rescue a boy who had injured his leg at the bottom of a steep slope. The firefighters are said to have used rescue ropes and ladders to get to the 10-year-old boy, who was stranded on the far side
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Two local MPs were in town recently to take part in a debate about the Big Society with representatives from South Gloucestershire’s voluntary and community sector. MPs Jack Lopresti (Filton & Bradley Stoke) and Steve Webb (Thornbury & Yate) heard about the diversity and value of the work which is already being done in local communities by the voluntary and
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