The unexplained incident that resulted in Bradley Stoke’s Baileys Court cricket square being damaged by weedkiller has cost local taxpayers more than £13k, according to the minutes of Town Council meetings. The damage came to light in March, when staff noticed the grass was starting to die off, and experts brought in by the Council later confirmed that a “readily
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Bradley Stoke’s Council-owned cricket pitch at Baileys Court could be out of action for months following an unexplained incident in which weedkiller appears to have been applied across all ten wickets. The damage came to light just over four weeks ago, when staff noticed the grass was starting to die off, and experts brought in by the Council have since
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McCarthy & Stone, the UK’s leading retirement builder, has donated specialist fencing from its new development in Bradley Stoke to the town’s Cricket Club so they can safely secure their cricket practice facilities. Bradley Stoke Cricket Club was in desperate need of some fencing to secure the new cricket nets the club had recently purchased. When Mark Wilson, Chairman of
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Bradley Stoke Cricket Club (BSCC) is looking for new players of all ages and abilities for the coming season. The club, based at the Baileys Court Activity Centre, says it will have seven adult teams playing on Saturdays and Sundays. Games are also staged on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, when teams from six local companies compete in a round robin
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Local police have named Bradley Stoke’s new Council-funded Police Community Support Officer as Paul Baxter, who currently works on the Filton beat. PCSO Baxter, who has been with the force for two years, will join the Bradley Stoke beat team in September. Bradley Stoke is one of five neighbourhood police teams being strengthened by the addition of a PCSO funded
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The U15 team of Bradley Stoke Cricket Club has received a youth team kit bag from cricketing charity The Lord’s Taverners. The organisation provides grants of over £750,000 p.a. to encourage participation in cricket by young people. Hard ball equipment bags with enough items to equip a full team are awarded to a limited number of applicants, who must be
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The Bradley Stoke Community Festival six-a-side Cricket Tournament, held at Baileys Court on Sunday (14th June), saw Holy Trinity defeat the Indian 1st X1 in the final by 43 runs to 41 with just one ball remaining. A total of five teams contested the tournament, with Mayor’s Maidens, Bradley Bruisers and hosts Bradley Stoke Cricket Club completing the starting line-up.
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On Friday (18th April) representatives of Bradley Stoke Cricket Club signed on a new rental agreement with Bradley Stoke Town Council, bringing months of often acrimonious negotiations to an end. The deal is reported to secure the club’s future at the Baileys Court cricket ground for the next forty years. Bradley Stoke Town Council issued a press release about the
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