A Bradley Stoke restaurant has announced a ten-day temporary closure due to staff shortages resulting from a Covid-19 ‘close contact’ notification. The closure of the Harvester restaurant at the town’s Willow Brook shopping centre was announced last Wednesday and it is currently foreseen that the venue will reopen on Saturday 28th August.
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In light of the planned further easing of Covid-19 lockdown measures, local bus operator First West of England has announced that it will be altering the timetables of some of its services from Sunday (11th April 2021).
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With coronavirus restrictions set to be gradually eased in the coming weeks, the staging of the 2021 Bradley Stoke Community Festival, due to take place on the weekend of 11th-13th June, is hanging in the balance. A final ‘go / no go’ decision is likely to be made by town councillors on 21st April.
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Bradley Stoke Bowls Club has already arranged a full season of fixtures in the hope that bowling could resume as normal or in a Covid-safe way from around mid-April, subject to the government’s roadmap out of the coronavirus lockdown being achieved.
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Thousands of residents in parts of Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke and Patchway are being asked to take part in a week-long programme of Covid-19 community testing following the identification of two cases of a ‘variant of concern’ in the area.
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Secondary-age students at Bradley Stoke Community School who have been remote learning since the beginning of the third Covid-19 lockdown in early January will recommence in-school learning on Monday 15th March 2021.
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Bus timetables for the M1 MetroBus and no. 73 services which serve Bradley Stoke are to be revised from Sunday 24th January 2021. First West of England says the adjustments reflect reduced customer demand during the current Covid-19 lockdown.
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Residents of the Stokes will be able to book a rapid Covid-19 test from Monday (18th January 2021) when a ‘pop up’ testing unit opens at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre. The purpose of rapid testing (also known as community testing) is to find residents who have Covid-19 but are not displaying symptoms.
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A Bradley Stoke primary school with just 420 children on roll saw a total of 43 pupils and 19 staff test positive for Covid-19 over the two-week period leading up to the end of the autumn term on Thursday 17th December.
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With the Covid-19 seven-day case rate in Bradley Stoke standing at almost 600 per 100,000 – higher than any other area in the West of England – a local councillor has recorded a video message urging residents to “try to do even more to stop infection rates increasing in our community”.
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