Children aged between seven and ten can join young life savers at St John Ambulance’s Little Stoke Badgers. The charity’s Badger Sett leader, Kat Ellison said: “We provide a safe and enjoyable meeting night for children. They have lots of fun, learn first aid and gain recognition for all kinds of activities as they work towards the ultimate goal of
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The Stoke Gifford branch of The Royal British Legion (RBL) launched its 2015/16 Poppy Appeal with a ceremony in the foyer of Bristol Parkway Station this afternoon (Friday 23rd October). The branch was pleased to welcome a special guest, Chelsea Pensioner Brian Cummings MBE, who cut a ceremonial ribbon to mark the start of the local appeal. Mr Cummings retired from
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A popular Stoke Gifford pub has made it into the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide for the first time, making it one of only two establishments in the north Bristol area to currently hold the prestigious status. The Beaufort Arms, in North Road, joins around 4,500 of the best real ale pubs in the country listed in
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Construction work on the Stoke Gifford By-Pass, which forms part of the North Fringe to Hengrove MetroBus route and will provide a new link for general traffic between Bradley Stoke and the A4174 (Avon Ring Road), is now under way at Parkway North. The Stoke Gifford Transport Link (as the by-pass is officially known) is a single carriageway highway which
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was punched and had his car keys stolen following an apparent ‘road rage’ incident on the Winterbourne Road in Stoke Gifford. The incident happened at approximately 12.30pm on Monday 21st September. The victim was driving on a section of the road which sees two lanes merge into one from the direction of Winterbourne
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The Tesco Express store in Ratcliffe Drive, Stoke Gifford has temporarily closed today (23rd August) for a period of around six months, to allow redevelopment of the site. According to plans approved by South Gloucestershire Council, the existing Tesco store will be increased in size by around 16% (adding 52sqm of floorspace ) and a new 106sqm retail unit will
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Post-16 students and staff are celebrating positive outcomes at Abbeywood Community School this week, with more students than ever gaining grades to be accepted onto university courses. The school has seen a slight dip in headline figures compared with previous years but has once again seen huge successes in BTEC and vocational outcomes. Most students who were seeking places on
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Popular weekly event in Little Stoke Park celebrates first anniversary. Sunday used to be my one day of the week to have a lie-in, until just over a year ago, when I took on the role of Event Director of the brand new Little Stoke junior parkrun. As an enthusiastic runner and big fan of parkrun (the more established, free,
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Plans to redevelop a site close to Parkway Station to provide a new office building are set to be revealed at a public exhibition in Stoke Gifford on Thursday (16th July). Ashfield Land, the company behind the project, is in the early stages of the design process and would like to hear local residents’ thoughts on potential design ideas for the building. Members of
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Bristol’s first University Technical College, the Bristol Technology and Engineering (BTE) Academy in New Road, Stoke Gifford, has been rated as ‘good’ following its inaugural Ofsted inspection. Inspectors who visited the BTE Academy in April commended its principal Rhian Priest and other senior staff for providing “strong leadership, so that the academy has clear strengths less than two years after opening”. They
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