The shutters stayed down at the Phones 4u store in Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre today (Monday 15th September) after it was announced that the mobile phone retailer had been put into administration. The picture was the same at more than 550 other Phones 4u stores across the country, leaving a total of 5,595 employees (including those at concessions
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People power appears to have won a reprieve for a popular ‘fruit & veg’ business that had reportedly been told it would have to quit the Willow Brook shopping centre due to objections from the Tesco Extra store within the same development. Ronnie’s Fruit & Veg began trading in the town square at the centre on 4th June and had
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A new ‘fruit & veg’ stall has begun trading in the town square at the Willow Brook Centre. Ronnie’s Fruit, Veg & Salad opened last Wednesday (4th June) and has been doing brisk trade, particularly on fine days. Run by Warren Shepherd, the operation offers products that are purchased “fresh every day” from a local wholesaler. The stall trades on Mondays,
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The new manager of Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre, Andy Wynn, says he has enjoyed meeting representatives of the local community since his arrival in the town back in February, when he took over from Scott Lahive, who had been in post since the centre first opened its doors in October 2008. Andy, 34, who commutes daily from Swindon,
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Scott Lahive, manager of the Willow Brook Centre (Bradley Stoke’s “shopping and town centre”) since it opened in October 2008, has moved on to pastures new after six years in the job. Journal editor Stephen Horton caught up with Mr Lahive in mid-January, as he prepared to hand over the reins to his successor in early February. When did you
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Bradley Stoke’s only banking facility, the Santander agency branch at the Willow Brook Centre, is to close “within six months”, The Journal has learned. A reader with an account at the branch contacted us yesterday (Thursday 13th February) to say she had received a letter stating that the Bradley Stoke branch would be closing “later this year”. The news was
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The Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke is set to launch a Click & Collect service next week, enabling customers to collect pre-ordered groceries from a ‘pod’ (kiosk) in the car park of the Willow Brook Centre. The pod has been constructed over the last few weeks at a location on the northern edge of the car park, to the
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The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke has won a Green Apple Environment Award in the national campaign to find Britain’s greenest companies, councils and communities. It competed against more than 500 other nominations and Centre Manager Scott Lahive and Joy Souch, Centre Administrator, were presented with the award at a glittering ceremony in the House of Commons on Monday
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Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre stages it Christmas lights switch-on event tomorrow (Saturday 16th November) between 2pm and 6.15pm. Star attraction is the popular children’s TV character Mike the Knight, who will be making appearances at intervals between 2pm and 5.30pm. Santa will be arriving in the square at 2pm in a vintage Morgan replica (weather permitting), rather than
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The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke has been shortlisted for a CIWM Environmental Excellence Award. The CIWM Awards recognise and reward performance and achievement in waste and resource management, both within the waste industry and in relevant commercial sectors, such as facilities management, retail and construction. Hosted by wildlife television presenter, Michaela Strachan, the awards ceremony will take place
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