A former member of the Bradley Stoke Neighbourhood Policing Team is now back on the beat thanks in part to funding from Bradley Stoke Town Council. PC Claire Fletcher has returned to the beat after having nine months off on maternity leave. The Town Council agreed in July to become the first town/parish authority in South Gloucestershire to contribute towards
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Police are appealing for information after three cars were damaged and a female was assaulted in Bradley Stoke in the early hours of Sunday 13th September. The incidents occurred at about 1.30am in Stevens Walk (off Hawkins Crescent), when a male could be heard behaving in a loud and abusive manner in the street. Police say that three cars –
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a man was assaulted at a pub in Bradley Stoke. The incident occurred on Friday 28th August 2009 at around 9.30pm at the Three Brooks Public House, Savages Wood Road (near Tesco Extra). Police say the victim heard a dispute at the bar and tried to intervene. He was then assaulted by
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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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A road traffic accident on the Winterbourne Road in the early hours of Saturday morning (22nd August) has left two men dead and three others injured. The accident happened at the junction of Winterbourne Road and Old Gloucester Road, close to where the Winterbourne Road passes under the M4 motorway. Avon and Somerset Police say a Mercedes collided with a
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An attack which saw a group of youths force a snake to bite their 14-year-old victim in Bradley Stoke has hit the national headlines. The story was broken by the Bristol Evening Post (BEP) at 10am on Sunday. Their report, titled “Teen attacked by Bristol gang ‘brandishing snake’“, said the incident had occurred in Merryweather Close, Bradley Stoke, on Saturday
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A 29-year-old man is fighting for his life in hospital after being assaulted in a Bradley Stoke street, according to a report from the Bristol Evening Post. The report says the attack happened at around 11pm on Saturday night (25th July) near the junction of Pye Croft [map] and Westfield Way in the north of the town. The paper quotes
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has agreed to meet half the cost of providing an additional part-time police officer in the town. Avon and Somerset Police had asked the Council to pay half the wages of former beat team manager Claire Fletcher when she returns from maternity leave in September. In return, the force promised that the officer would be considered
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A public meeting of the Bradley Stoke Safer & Stronger Community Group (SSCG) on Tuesday evening (21st July) will hear the latest news on the town’s planned sixth form development. Planning permission for the scheme, which also includes a dance studio and additional changing rooms, was granted by South Gloucestershire Council in September 2008. That opened the way for an
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The start of last Wednesday night’s meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council at the Jubilee Centre was delayed when a senior police officer attending the meeting was called into action to deal with a nuisance motorcyclist. Town Clerk David Chandler exclaimed (somewhat tongue in cheek): “Arrest that man!” – as the errant biker sped across Jubilee Green, in full view
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