Local school pupil Ed Franklin, 13, has been named as a young correspondent at BBC Radio Bristol.

Ed beat off competition from hundreds of applicants to land the place.

He will join three others who will supply stories to the station giving them a youth-oriented slant.

The other winners were pupils from St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, Fairfield High School and Bristol Cathedral School.

The Bradley Stoke Examiner’s in pictures section, this website’s FlickR-style facility, now has more than 100 images of the town.

The 100th image was posted on Tuesday night following a shoot by Examiner staff at the weekend.

The gallery features 20 photographs submitted by the public as well as images of Bradley Stoke Town’s cup final appearance.

Editor Chris Kelly said: “We want to show Bradley Stoke in a positive light and what better way than to let users submit their own pictures!

“We’d love to see more photos of your favourite part of the town so get digging through your collection!”

With just over a week to go before the local elections things seem to have gone strangely quiet in Bradley Stoke.

South Gloucestershire was named the country’s most boring election area by the BBC’s Politics Show - and the Examiner is beginning to wonder if they’re correct.

Here at HQ we have not had a single caller from any of the political parties in the past two months and no leaflets for more than two weeks.

Despite a slight rumpus over the community school, there does not seem to have been any other campaigns of note.

Now, we ask have you seen any representatives from any of the political parties on the streets of Bradley Stoke?

Fill in the form below if you spot any of them!

The Southern Brooks Partnership has been awarded a £50,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to run a history project with schools in Bradley Stoke and Patchway.

Conservation groups will work with the children to identify historically important buildings and discover more about the past.

They will then work with a potter to create permanent markers on stone and ceramic at these sites which should be in place before summer 2008.

Some of the effort of the project will also look at what Bradley Stoke was like before the town was built 20 years ago.

The grant will provide a full time member of staff to co-ordinate the project.

The Southern Brooks group will meet on Monday, 30 April at 12.30pm to discuss how to take the project forward. The open meeting will take place at Patchway Town Council Office on Rodway Road, Patchway.

The team behind Bradley Stoke Matters has launched a new website to compliment their free magazine.

The website features lots of useful new information including what’s ons, a business directory for the town and listings for groups and clubs.

Jaci and Alison from ‘Matters’ told the Examiner: “We are both really excited to launch www.bradleystokematters.co.uk as an enhancement and online support to the Bradley Stoke Matters magazine.

“We hope everyone out there will find it a really useful source of community information and log on regularly to keep in touch with what’s going on in our town.”

The pair added that the website, as well as providing a download of the latest magazine, would also act as an extension to the publication: “There is always so much happening in Bradley Stoke that the magazine often doesn’t have space to fit it all in!

“We have therefore designed the website to show a four week calendar of upcoming events, to expand on some of the community articles covered in the magazine, and to provide an online directory of local services available as well as an online source of regular community groups and activities. We really hope you like it!”

You can check out the new website here: www.bradleystokematters.co.uk

The headteacher of Bradley Stoke Community School says expanding the number of pupils would “be to the detriment of local secondary schools”.

The Evening Post reports that Dave Baker sent a letter home to parents in a bid to distance the school from the current political fight to expand it.

The letter said: “We would like to distance ourselves from suggestions that the school should increase its capacity for 11- to 16-year-olds, which would undermine the infrastructure within the school to provide a coherent experience for our students.

“It would hamper the possible provision of a post-16 centre and would be to the detriment of local secondary schools.”

Liberal Democrat councillor Jon Williams has called for an expansion to the school despite an all-party agreement to limit numbers to 900.

The Conservatives have been fighting for a post-16 centre to be based alongside the school.

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Attendees at the Bradley Stoke Small Business Forum’s third meeting were given a fascinating insight into accounting and tax.

Kath Docherty from local firm C & M Services answered a wide range of questions on sole trading and limited companies.

Delegates also discussed progress on a new website for the group.

The next meeting is planned for May 14 at the Pitman Training Centre in Pear Tree Road.

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