Young fighters from Bradley Stoke Judo Club finished off a remarkable year of achievement with Louis Arsac, Pete Miles and Stephanie Walker winning two Gold medals and one Bronze medal at the British National Judo Championships for 12 to 18-year-olds in Sheffield [full results]. Their outstanding success brings the club’s haul of national medals won this year to ten –
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Ticket sales for a big top circus performance at a Bradley Stoke school this coming weekend are said to be going well but people are being advised to book in advance to guarantee entry. The grounds of Bowsland Green Primary School in Ellicks Close will be open from 1.15pm on Saturday (9th October) with the performance starting at 2pm and
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Entries have opened for the 2011 Outstanding Women’s Awards, organised by Southern Brooks Community Partnership. Awards will be made in the following categories: Community Award Personal Achievement Award Young Woman Award Winners will receive a certificate and a prize. Persons nominated must live in: Bradley Stoke, Patchway, Filton or Stoke Gifford For nomination forms and further information please visit your
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Athletes from Bradley Stoke Judo Club proved they were amongst the best in the country by winning two silver and one bronze medals at the British National Judo Championships on Sunday 19th September. The event, held at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London, saw the best 10 and 11-year-olds in Britain compete for Judo medals in their respective
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Thrifty buyers will be flocking to the Trench Lane Car Boot Sale, near Bradley Stoke, for the last time in 2010 tomorrow (Sunday 26th September). The immensely popular sale, which attracts hundreds of sellers and thousands of buyers, runs from May to September at the Trench Lane site [map], opposite the entrance to Woodlands Golf & Country Club. With fine
Continue readingHorfield Theatre Company are presenting the West of England Amateur Première of “Bad Girls – the Musical” at the Olympus Theatre, WISE Campus, Stoke Gifford, Bristol from Tuesday 26th to Saturday 30th October (performances start at 7:30pm). Based on the cult TV series we are transported to Larkhall Women’s Prison where tragedy and revenge are very close neighbours! Tickets £10
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Bradley Stoke residents are being given the chance to enjoy a performance by local comedy star Paul Burling and at the same time raise funds for a local schoolgirl’s educational expedition to Southern India. The Britain’s Got Talent finalist, famed for his impressions of Harry Hill, has agreed to perform at a fund raising evening on Saturday 2nd October 2010,
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There are plently of opportunities to visit interesting properties in Bristol and South Gloucestershire this weekend – and it won’t cost you a penny. Heritage Open Days celebrate England’s fantastic architecture and culture by offering free access to properties that are usually closed to the public or normally charge for admission. Some 26 properties in South Gloucestershire are opening their
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Bradley Stoke Twinning Association is to hold a General Meeting on Tuesday 31st August at the Jubilee Centre (7:30pm start). Anyone interested in getting involved in the Twinning Association is invited to attend. Local organisations, including The Stokes Cycling Club, St Mary’s Rugby Club, Bradley Stoke Judo Club, Black & Blues Netball Club, Bradley Stoke Youth FC, Bradley Stoke Community
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Bradley Stoke Library is inviting residents to a “murder mystery with a difference” event on the evening of Wednesday 15th September. When poet Colonel Kipling’s reading at the Poetry Festival is interrupted by a murder, it falls to the audience to decide ‘whodunit?’ by following the plot and solving the clues in an intriguing murder mystery by poet Sara-Jane Arbury,
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