Bradley Stoke’s entry on Wikipedia was vandlised on Wednesday with an anonymous edit accusing residents of being “very impatient, selfish, self-indulgent”.

The edit, under the culture section, added that “many of the male inhabitants are alcoholic” and that the women living in the town “appear to have unpleasant aspirations to be Victoria Beckham”.

The edited information goes on to talk of behind-closed-door antics in the town and says youths have a “limited” IQ.

Another edit says: “Bradley Stoke is known to be “soulless” as unlike many other towns it has no history. In truth, you are far more likely to find more of a community spirit, in a nearby graveyard.”

We’ve included the edit, which has been on the site for more than 24 hours, in full below - we’ve starred out the bad language.

The town generally has a very impatient, selfish, self-indulgent culture about it. Generally rudeness and nastiness are normal traits of this town. Motorists appear to be incapable of using indicators at appropriate times.

Many of the male inhabitants are alcoholic (often illiterate) ‘Bob the builder’ types and their female companions appear to have unpleasant aspirations to be Victoria Beckham / Desperate Housewives, with a “shop till you drop, I’m a celebrity, get out my way” mentality.

Due to the high level of swinging and public indecency associated with the town, many of the males are c******. Their “Desperate Housewives” being too busy shopping to install moral values in their family, further contributes to the lack of taste, sophistication and moral corruption about the town.

The resulting offspring have limited IQ resulting in de-capacity to do anything of constructive value and whose verbal diction consists of dribbling. As they are not house trained, teenage offspring congregate outside convenience stores to urinate and attract fellow females.

A concrete roller has been used to damage safety netting at Bailey’s Court in a series of vandalism incidents, The Bradley Stoke Examiner has learned.

The 11mx7m netting was put up to protect people and cars in the play area and car park but vandals have repeatedly tried to pull it down.

The netting was put up shortly after the Bailey’s Court extension was complete but “as soon as the ropes were put on, they were just as soon pulled down again by those less keen on our good intentions”, a cricket club spokesman told us.

Bradley Stoke Cricket Club then tried to tie the netting half way up the posts but vandals struck again when they tied the ropes to trees and attempted to burn other ropes.

But the most shocking incident saw vandals unhook some the ropes and try to pull the netting down with a concrete roller.

“One morning we found that again someone had climbed up a number of the posts to untie the ropes and this time wanted to pull all the netting down.

“As it seems they had insufficient strength to do this themselves, they tied a number of the ropes to a concrete roller and then pushed this into the middle of the pitch, tearing down a number of the brackets and netting.”

So far, the repairs have cost the club £400 and is “money that [the club] can ill afford and would much rather spend on progress”.

A faster broadband service at the Almondsbury telephone exchange has been activated meaning customers could see faster web browsing and downloads.

BT’s Wholesale Broadband Connect can, in theory, run at twice as fast as current services but most customers are more likely to see a much more modest increase in speed.

So far, no providers have announced they will support the service, which launched at 82 exchanges around the country and is due to be rolled out nationwide during the next few years.

Much of the northern part of Bradley Stoke is covered by the Almondsbury exchange with Filton covering the rest. Some homes, in cabled areas, can also get internet services from Virgin Media.

More information on this story from Think Broadband.

New traffic lights on Winterbourne Road have been turned on after several months of roadworks to improve access to the Vantage Business Park.

The work has seen new lights installed on either side of Old Gloucester Road and underneath the motorway bridge on Winterbourne Road.

The new lights mean that traffic heading from Frenchay direction now do not have to wait for gaps in the traffic to turn out of the junction which has previously caused long queues.

The work got underway at the start of February and is expected to be complete in May.

The Bradley Stoke Examiner would like to apologise for the recent downtime - a problem with our website hosting company was to blame.

On Monday evening, a hard drive failed in our server and unfortunately it could not be repaired meaning the whole website went offline.

We switched to backup servers which carried a message saying there was a technical issue.

Unfortunately the data centre involved did not make a whole site backup which meant we had to rely on several old backups of the site.

Any stories and comments posted since last Thursday have been lost and you might notice a few pictures from the past month missing.

We are working to restore the photos and forums sections which we hope will be back before the end of the week.

Once again, we’re very sorry for the outage and hope that you will continue to visit Bradley Stoke’s number one news website.

Wednesday update: Webcam, forum and photos still offline. We’re hoping to restore the forum this evening.

Wednesday evening update: The forum is now back up-and-running …

Wednesday evening update two: The webcam is also back …

Thursday: Photos are back which means the whole site is now available!

Permission to fell several trees which had become rotten during building work in Bradley Stoke have been given the green light.

As we reported in February, seven trees off Woodlands Road which we the subject of a Tree Preservation Order, faced either the chop or felling.

The trees, at Woodlands Court, had taken a “battering during development of the site, and work needed to be carried out to save them.

Two cherry trees will be thinned with dead wood removed to encourage growth while another will be cut down.

Multi-stemmed ash trees will be cut back while a lime will be reduced to allow more light into a nearby house.

The planning consent stipulates that the trees which are cut down must be replaced by new ones that are approved by Bradley Stoke Town Council.