A mobile coffee bar in the form of a vintage horsebox is set to be stationed in Stoke Gifford’s Meade Park for four days each week during August. The ‘Deja Brew’ trailer will be located on the grass close to the small visitor car park that is accessed from Hatchet Road. There will be no impact on the capacity of the car park.
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The post office in Ratcliffe Drive, Stoke Gifford is now under new management. A small celebration on Thursday 15th April marked the takeover of the popular facility by members of the Azad family, who have many years of experience within the Post Office business.
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The operator of a new café that is set to open soon within the confines of Little Stoke Park says she is planning to offer a “really great facility for the local community”. Hayley Mannion, who lives just across the road from the park, says she had previously approached the parish council about operating a refreshment kiosk at the site.
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Work has started on a new £100m, 160,000 sq ft corporate office development on Hunts Ground Road, opposite the park and ride site at the rear of Parkway Station. Developer Ashfield Land was granted planning permission for the scheme (now being marketed as ‘The Approach‘) by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) in June last year. Contractor ISG is carrying out the site clearance
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Japanese firm Hitachi is creating 150 jobs at its newly built train service depot in Stoke Gifford. The £80m facility, near Bristol Parkway Station, will maintain the new Intercity Express (ICE) trains which will run on the Great Western route. Recruitment for the 150 jobs is starting now to ensure the facility is ready ahead of arrival of the new
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Stoke Gifford’s newly-refurbished ‘main style’ post office in the former Jhoots Pharmacy store in Ratcliffe Drive is proving a hit with local residents and businesses. Following its reopening at the end of June, the post office now offers three serving positions: one screened, one open plan and a third at a retail counter at the front of the store. Services
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Network Rail is inviting young people and their families from across the West of England area to its state-of-the-art maintenance training centre in Stoke Gifford to experience life as a railway apprentice and meet the people and high-tech kit involved in keeping Britain’s rail network running. The company is seeking 50 new apprentices to join its ranks along the Western
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Almost 200 jobs are being created in Stoke Gifford with the opening of a call centre run by Harmoni, the country’s largest provider of urgent care services. Harmoni has been awarded the contract to run the new NHS 111 service by NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. NHS 111 is being introduced to make it easier for people to
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Handelsbanken, the fast-growing relationship bank with more than 140 branches in the UK, has chosen Eleven Hundred Parkway North in Stoke Gifford as its regional head office for the South West. Colliers International’s Bristol office negotiated the deal on behalf of the landlord, whilst the bank which has taken a ten year lease on the building was represented by the
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Jobs at public infrastructure group Mouchel, which has an office in Stoke Gifford, have been secured – despite the company being placed into administration last week. The company, which employs around 8,000 people around the UK, has been sold to a new organisation owned by its main lenders – RBS, Lloyds and Barclays – and Mouchel management. The sale to
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