The owners of a property in the old hamlet of Harry Stoke are opening their garden to the public for two days this month to raise funds for a number of charities. The event forms part of the National Garden Scheme, which this year will see over 3,500 gardens opening on selected dates to benefit numerous good causes.
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The Stoke Gifford Trust Committee has announced that the 2022 Village Fête will take place on Friday 3rd June. This is the Friday of the extended Spring Bank Holiday and Platinum Jubilee weekend. The event will take place from 2pm to 5pm at the Trust Grounds, North Road BS34 8PE.
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“How about coming to our choir?” asks Emma Smallwood. We are the Stoke Gifford Gospel choir, part of the Bristol choir Gospel Generation Community Choir (GGCC). We meet fortnightly on Tuesday evenings from 7.30pm to 9pm in the St Michael’s Centre, North Road.
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Avon and Somerset Police say they have charged a 26-year-old man with 24 counts of arson following a series of arson attacks on vehicles in north Bristol earlier this month. The attacks happened in the Stoke Gifford, Little Stoke, Patchway and Bradley Stoke areas in the early hours of Sunday 3rd April.
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A main road in north Bristol that has been subject to traffic management measures for over two years was fully reopened this morning (Sunday 24th April). Motor vehicles can now pass along the full length of Gipsy Patch Lane in both directions – westbound towards the A38 Gloucester Road, and eastbound towards Little Stoke, Stoke Gifford and Bradley Stoke.
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Police are investigating a robbery in which a teenager had his electric bike stolen in Stoke Gifford. The victim, a 16-year-old boy, had advertised his bike for sale and arranged to meet up with someone who wanted to buy it. On meeting the ‘buyer’, he was assaulted and robbed of the bike
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A new vehicular access point directly off Hatchet Road could soon be created into the site of the former Co-operative food store near Parkway Station after a planning inspector allowed an appeal against a council committee’s decision to refuse permission. [Editor’s note: This is an extended version of an earlier website article that was published on the day of the inspector’s decision.]
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Dramatic scenes in Bush Avenue, Little Stoke, on Sunday night (10th April) saw a mother and two children escape from a blazing semi-detached house. Approximately 30 firefighters from Patchway, Avonmouth, Southmead, Temple, Kingswood and Yate attended the incident, which was first reported to the emergency services at 8.25pm.
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Detectives investigating a series of vehicle fires in north Bristol last weekend have made two arrests. A 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of arson yesterday (Friday 8th April), while a 14-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of the same offence this afternoon (Saturday 9th April). Around 25 vehicles were damaged in just over 3 hours.
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The plan for a community garden has not been forgotten, but to be entrusted with a piece of land large enough for one we first had to show we could gather volunteers and organise small projects, writes Rev. Tania Vaughan. So Little Stoke Baptist Church sourced, emptied and refilled two large planters and placed one at the church and another at the entrance to Little Stoke Park.
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