By Katherine Robinson of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group. Members of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group are busy preparing for the town’s annual Remembrance parade and ceremony on Sunday 10th November. We are expecting record numbers of parade participants again this year with ten other local youth groups joining us. Our own Scout group will, of course, have all
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A development company’s promotion of Woodlands Golf Course as a potential site for up to 2,000 new homes could be given renewed impetus following the news that a strategic housing plan has effectively been thrown out by government inspectors. South West Strategic Developments Ltd (SWSD) put forward the Trench Lane site as a candidate for large-scale housing development when the
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The team from Aztec Hotel & Spa joined forces with local Bristol charity Street Life on Saturday 14th September to serve a delicious meal to the homeless community in the city. This marked the seventh time the hotel has worked with the charity since 2017 and the third time they have provided the food as well as serving the meals.
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) is one of the most popular schools in South Gloucestershire and it consistently attracts significantly more 1st-preference applications for Year 7 entry than there are places available. Hence the perennial question we hear around this time of year as parents are making secondary school applications for their offspring: How close do you have to live
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The U12 girls at Bradley Stoke Youth FC are now dressed for success thanks to sponsorship from local building firm LNJ Construction Services Ltd. Lewis Colling, director at LNJ, whose youngest step-daughter plays for the team, contacted manager/coach Lee Lawson when he heard the team were looking for a kit sponsor. A conversation about the team and how LNJ could
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A masterplan that defines the strategy for delivering 105,000 new homes across the West of England by 2036 lies in tatters after government inspectors recommended that it should be rewritten from the ground up. The Joint Spatial Plan (JSP) was worked on by the councils of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire over a
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Work on a £2.9 million scheme to increase capacity and improve safety at Great Stoke Roundabout (a.k.a. Rabbit Roundabout) will start this autumn and is scheduled to take 12 months to complete, South Gloucestershire Council has announced. The work will require lane closures as well as some full road closures (when deemed essential for safe working). The timing of the
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Bradley Stoke Wise Owls after school and holiday club enjoyed a fun-packed summer holiday programme and as part of ‘Heroes Week’ welcomed some special visitors from Avon and Somerset Constabulary. PC Leanne Weeks and Special Sergeant Harry Gregory came along to the club in their riot van! They answered questions from the children and demonstrated some of their equipment, whilst
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Work to create 20 new parking spaces at Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Brook Way Activity Centre site could finally get under way in October, more than six years after redevelopment proposals were first put forward. The future of the dilapidated hard court area at the centre has been the subject of much controversy, not least when, in September 2013, the
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By Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Although we were delighted to welcome some newbies to our team (Kamil, Kelly, Suzanne, Stevie and Tom), as soon as they started we entered the holiday season and we all took some well earned time off. We haven’t been completely slacking off though, as in one week we managed to take part
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