Post Office Limited has announced that the post office branch within the former Jhoots Pharmacy store in Ratcliffe Drive, Stoke Gifford is to be modernised into what it calls a ‘main style’ branch. To allow work to be carried out, the branch will close on Saturday 11th June at 12.30pm and reopen on Monday 20th June at 1pm. Any unforeseen
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenager was the victim of an attempted robbery in Little Stoke. A 14-year-old boy was out walking his dog when he was approached from behind by a man. The man demanded the boy hand over his phone before hitting him several times in the face. The boy pushed the man over and he
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Stoke Gifford Taekwondo (TKD) student Phoebe Grandfield, 19, has been awarded the Bristol Young Sporting Hero title for 2016. Phoebe was nominated by her tutors at SGS College and her instructor at Stoke Gifford TKD, Miss Kerry Burridge. She has been training in taekwondo since the age of 5 and has faced many difficulties and obstacles including severe epilepsy, autism,
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Local resident, Brian Hawkins, told us of his struggle to keep the World War II pillbox that is likely to be demolished under the council’s Cribbs Patchway MetroBus Extension (CPME) plan. The pillbox is a brick structure that was constructed for defence purposes during the Second World War; there were two near the railway bridge on Gipsy Patch Lane, and
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A decision by Stoke Gifford Parish Council to insist on a financial contribution from the organisers of a popular free weekly run held in Little Stoke Park sparked a media frenzy last month, with the story featuring for several days in national newspapers and on TV news bulletins. One of hundreds of similar events that take place around the country
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A report on the results of the recent public consultation on preliminary designs for the Cribbs Patchway MetroBus Extension (CPME) is recommending that the scheme be progressed largely unaltered, despite scores of people registering objections to the proposed widening of Hatchet Road in Stoke Gifford, in order to accommodate a new bus lane. The proposals require a strip of land to be
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Housebuilder Crest Nicholson is to hold public events to consult with local residents on two planning applications that it is preparing for land at East of Harry Stoke (EoHS), a large greenfield site that has been allocated for development within South Gloucestershire’s adopted Core Strategy. The two planning applications will be submitted to the council later this spring to cover the land to the
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Little Stoke based group provides a much appreciated facility for families of children with additional needs. A parent-led group which provides twice-weekly play sessions for children with additional needs has celebrated its first birthday. Based at The Stokes Youth and Community Centre on Little Stoke Lane, next to Little Stoke Primary School, Safe Space offers ‘stay and play’ sessions every
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In spring 2013, Tim Hewer was approached by a friend who needed a spot of land on which to keep his beehive. Tim accepted and assisted in setting up a new apiary, “I was standing there, wearing a pair of Marigolds and holding 10,000 bees. Listening to the low buzz, I slowly began to relax. It was that sound that
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Little Stoke Primary School officially opened its new library area on Friday 19th February and celebrated the occasion with a day of literacy-related activities. Performance poet Ian Bland spent the day at the school, leading writing workshops, showing pupils how to write poems and giving tips on performing. During a short ceremony to mark the opening of the library, Year 6
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