Residents of the Stokes who use Gipsy Patch Lane to access employment, shopping and leisure facilities to the west of the railway line are being encouraged to plan ahead for an eight-month full closure of the road that is due to start on Thursday 5th March. The road closure is needed so that a new, much-wider railway bridge can be
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The 1st Little Stoke Scout Group is looking forward to welcoming new members, both adults and young people, at a special Open Event being held on Thursday 5th March, writes group leader Tony Edmonds. The group has been providing activities for boys and girls in Little Stoke and surrounding areas since 1952. We are a family focused group and place
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Stoke Gifford’s three district councillors have welcomed the news that sports facilities in Little Stoke Park are set to benefit from more than £120,000 worth of improvements, through funding that South Gloucestershire Council has secured from local developments. The grants are part of a package of more than £310,000 that is being invested across South Gloucestershire, thanks to funding secured
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…asks local history enthusiast Adrian Kerton. Conservationists are worried that the UK is losing much of its wildlife through loss of habitat and that certainly seems to be the case in Stoke Gifford ‘village’. In the past, builders filled in inconvenient ponds, though today, the new Harry Stoke development has had to cater for the protected great crested newt colonies.
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Ahead of the planned full closure of Gipsy Patch Lane from early March, Trading Standards and the police will be undertaking two joint operations a week, checking that vehicles are not breaching the weight limit on Braydon Avenue, Little Stoke. These operations will be targeted at times and places when/where intelligence suggests infringements are most likely to take place. Initially
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The Stoke Gifford branch of the Royal British Legion (RBL) is having another good year with the Poppy Appeal, reports branch press officer Tony Peters. So far this year (2019/20), we have raised over £45,000. If we include Cribbs Causeway and Almondsbury – new areas in which we helped out – it is over £65,000! Our branch chairman Ian Harrison,
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By Emma Creasey, secretary of The Gifford Ensemble. Do you like playing classical music and live in the Filton and Bradley Stoke area? If so then The Gifford Ensemble might be for you! We started up in September 2018, when local residents, realising there was no local orchestra for the Stokes area, decided they’d better start one. We gave our
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The project to dismantle the narrow railway bridge on Gipsy Patch Lane and replace it with a much wider concrete structure is still on track to meet the looming deadline of a programmed nine-day closure of the railway line over Easter, according to Network Rail. Piling work to create 24-metre deep foundations to support the four corners of the replacement
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Mobile camera units used to periodically enforce the controversial 30mph speed limit on the Stoke Gifford By-Pass detected more than 1,200 offences over a 12-month period, the Journal can reveal. With the speed cameras being deployed for just 30 hours and 15 minutes over the period, the average detection rate works out at 41.95 offences per hour of enforcement, the
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Friday 15th November 2019 is likely to stay in the memory of pupils at Little Stoke Primary School for quite some time – as the day they came within touching distance of a real-life space rocket! As part of a programme to promote science, engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM), the school had arranged a visit from Steve Bennett of UK
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