South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has announced the signing of a deal that will bring improved internet speeds to at least 9.4% of premises across the district. The Council, in partnership with Wiltshire Council, has agreed the £35.6 million project with BT, who were announced as the preferred bidder for the project last November. £4.6 million of the money will come
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There’s little New Year cheer for consumers suffering from appalling internet connection speeds in Bradley Stoke with the news that both South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) and BT have slipped key dates on broadband improvement projects. SGC announced in November 2012 that BT had been chosen as its preferred supplier for it £2.2 million project to bring superfast broadband to 90%
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Above inflation price increases have been introduced at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre following a 12-week consultation in which customers were asked to choose between a range of options for adjusting prices in response to reduced funding from South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). Circadian Trust, the non-profit company that operates leisure services on behalf of SGC, has introduced an across-the-board increase for
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None of the roads in Bradley Stoke warrant being considered for repair, according to a report presented to last week’s meeting of the Southern Brooks Area Forum. Councillors on the Forum, which covers Bradley Stoke, Filton, Frenchay, Stoke Park, Patchway, Stoke Gifford and Winterbourne, were given £60,000 to allocate to highway maintenance schemes in the area and they were asked
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Schoolchildren from Bradley Stoke had a rare chance to get behind the wheel of a council gritter during a special visit to The Mall at Cribbs Causeway earlier this week. Against the backdrop of The Mall’s ‘Winter Wonderland’ visitor attraction the pupils from Baileys Court Primary School were shown around vehicles from the council’s 11-strong gritter fleet. The vehicles have
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National telecoms firm BT has been chosen as the preferred bidder for South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) state-aided broadband improvement project which promises to bring superfast connection speeds to 90% of the district by 2015. BT was selected in preference to the only other bidder, Fujitsu, a firm which has yet to win any of the contracts being offered by Councils
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The organisation that runs Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre is staging a ‘drop-in’ session next Monday (24th September) as part of a public consultation on a range of options for increasing prices in response to reduced funding from South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). Circadian Trust, the not-for-profit social enterprise company that took over the running of the Council’s Leisure Centres in 2005,
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Councillors in Bradley Stoke are fighting to keep youth centres across South Gloucestershire open – despite voting to close their town’s only youth club just fourteen months ago. Under proposals published earlier this year, South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) said it was planning to transfer control of all its youth centres to locally-based organisations. Any youth centres that failed to attract
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A meeting of the Southern Brooks Area Forum in Patchway this evening (Tuesday 4th September) will discuss grant applications from two Bradley Stoke organisations. Area Forums, organised by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), give local people the opportunity to talk about issues and concerns that affect their neighbourhoods. They champion local needs and aspirations and gather the views of residents about
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The police beat team in Bradley Stoke is currently two officers under strength due to a series of resignations within the Filton neighbourhood area. For the last two years, the Bradley Stoke team has consisted of one full-time beat manager, one part-time-beat manager and three Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs). But a series of resignations in the local team and
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