Town councillors have given the go-ahead for this year’s Bradley Stoke fireworks display, despite lingering concerns relating to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Taking place on Sunday 7th November at the Jubilee Centre, the event will, for the first time in its history, feature specially selected ‘low noise’ fireworks.
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Bradley Stoke Women’s Institute is back to holding monthly meetings at the Jubilee Centre after many, many months’ absence. Our first ‘face-to-face’ get together was on Wednesday 11th August with an indoor and outdoor picnic. It was lovely to see so many friendly faces back again…
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Students from a local dance school have finally managed to stage the annual show they had planned for 2020 after it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The ‘All the World’s a Stage’ show by Sharon Phillips School of Dancing was originally scheduled to take place in April 2020.
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Stokes Singers are recruiting new members in January 2020, so why not come along and give us a try? asks choir member Gillian Rowles. Rehearsals are lots of fun and members get a real uplifting feel from singing with the group. We are a 3/4 part harmony group singing a wide range of music from swing, gospel, pop, show and
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Members of Bradley Stoke’s popular Young at Heart Club gathered at Christ the King Church on Thursday 22nd August for a party to celebrate the group’s 20th anniversary. In this article, club members Josie Hadden and Brenda Capel look back at the history of one of the town’s oldest institutions… In March 1999, Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre placed an advertisement
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Advertising Feature The Bradley Stoke Journal is offering readers the chance to win a year’s free gym membership at Anytime Fitness Bradley Stoke in an exclusive prize draw that is open until 4th June 2019. Anytime Fitness is the world’s largest 24-hour gym network with over 4,500 sites worldwide and 160 currently open in the UK. There are four sites in
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A chance encounter between Susan Hartry of the Stokes Art Group (SAG) and Sara Messenger of the Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group (TBNCG) last spring sparked an idea for an art project. Sara explained that just as the River Severn has Sabrina Goddess of the River, the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve has a God called Trolletheus – named
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This year’s Bradley Stoke Town Council fireworks display was again a great success, raising over £2,800 for the mayor’s charities. Numbers attending the free event were estimated to be down on last year, most likely due to a forecast of poor weather, which in reality failed to materialise.
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Advertising Feature The Bradley Stoke Journal is offering readers the chance to win a year’s free gym membership at Anytime Fitness Bradley Stoke in an exclusive prize draw that is open until 5th June 2018. Anytime Fitness is the world’s largest 24hr gym chain with 4,200 sites worldwide. There are currently four sites in Bristol, one of them located in the
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This year’s Bradley Stoke Town Council fireworks display was again a great success. Numbers attending the free event were up on last year and this was reflected in a healthy increase in voluntary charity donations. This year, a total of £4,119 was raised for the mayor’s charities through donations, with £3,629 of the total coming from bucket collections and the remaining
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