Costa Coffee is the latest firm to confirm it is looking at Bradley Stoke town centre as a potential location to open a new cafe, The Bradley Stoke Examiner can exclusively reveal.

This website has already confirmed that Reflections Hairdressing Salon is moving in and fast food firm KFC is considering opening a chain there.

A spokesperson for Costa’s parent firm, Whitbread, said: “We have no firm plans as yet but are currently examining Bradley Stoke for a possible site.”

Costa Coffee already has several cafes open in Bristol including one in The Mall at Cribbs Causeway and another off The Triange in Clifton.

For the latest town centre news check out The Bradley Stoke Examiner’s in-depth coverage.

A group of about 15 youths are making life a misery for residents near Bailey’s Court Activity Centre in Bradley Stoke, according to a resident.

The area has been the flashpoint for fights involving up to 100 people in the past year, and has been one of the causes of the recent police dispersal zone in the town.

But now, an anonymous resident has told The Bradley Stoke Examiner that the problems are beginning to resurface.

“There seem to be a hardcore 15 or so there every evening from around six until late, they are then joined by another 10-15 on at least every other evening,” the resident said.

“They make loads of noise. There is screaming from girls mainly. Their mates come down in cars and mopeds and bikes and are wheel spinning in the car park most nights.

“The noise has had many residents looking at their windows and shouting for them to shut up.”

The resident says the police have been contacted “at least” seven times in the past two weeks and is calling on officers to make more frequent visits to the area.

“I think that another dispersal order is needed urgently before the summer comes and it gets much worse,” our source told us.

Bradley Stoke’s new town centre is to be called The Brooks Centre, the Bradley Stoke Examiner can reveal.

The new name for the development slipped out through promotional brochures for potential tenants at the centre.

Tesco had intended to run a competition to name the centre but a spokesman for the firm said time had “overtaken” them. “We have settled on Brooks Centre,” he added.

What do you think of the new name? Hit the comments below and let us know.

Fast food firm KFC is in negotiations to open a chain in Bradley Stoke’s new town centre, the Examiner can exclusively reveal.

A spokesperson for the company told this website that they are “continuously looking for suitable locations to expand our portfolio”.

The spokesperson went on to say: “Due to popular demand in the area, we can confirm we are pursuing plans to develop a site in Bradley Stoke which will potentially create 15-20 jobs within the local community.”

The town centre is due to open in 2009 with 15 retail units which will include shops and restaurants.

The Bradley Stoke Examiner was first to reveal last week that a Reflections Hairdressing Salon would be moving in to the new town centre.

A woman from Bradley Stoke is among the survivors of the bus crash in Ecuador which left five British tourists dead.

Nicola Cox, who is 19, was on a gap year after leaving the Ridings School in Winterbourne in the summer of 2007.

It is thought Nicola banged her head during the crash but is not badly injured.

Nicola, a former member of the Bristol Old Vic Youth Theatre, is due to take up a place at Nottingham University in the summer to study medicine.

Friends of Nicola have left get well messages on her Facebook profile. One said: “Its great to hear your ok. I’m really sorry about what has happened to you.”

Another added: “Hey hun. I’m so sorry to hear about what happened. I’m so glad you are ok.”

Students Indira Swann, 18, Lizzie Pincock, 19, of Somerset, Rebecca Logie, 19, and Emily Sadler, 19, all died in the crash.

• Teenager survives fatal bus crash (BBC)
• Crash survivor ‘well looked after’ (Press Association)

A new route into the Bradley Stoke town centre development has opened meaning motorists must now drive around the edge of the building site to park at Tesco.

The new town square and shops are due to be built on the site of the original route into the car park which ran past the disused petrol station - due to be demolished soon.

Motorists will now enter from the roundabout on Savages Wood Road and will turn left alongside the new petrol station.

The route follows the new fence, which runs behind Manor Farm Crescent and Hedgerows, to a new mini roundabout and then into the old car park.

Bus users will also be affected by the changes with the town centre bus stop being moved to Savages Wood Road near the pedestrian crossing.

Shortly after the supermarket closed on Sunday the old route was blocked and new one opened.

An exhibition of plans for the busy Aztec West roundabout, which would see new bus lanes built, goes on show on Monday.

South Gloucestershire Council has launched a consultation on the plans which would also see extra traffic lanes added to the busy junction.

But, controversially, as part of the scheme the council wants to ban right turns from Bradley Stoke Way to Woodlands Lane (pictured) meaning local traffic would be diverted up residential streets such as Pear Tree Road.

The scheme is part of the Greater Bristol Bus Network which aims to offer faster public transport corridors into the city centre.

If you want to find out more about the plans then you can go to the Aztec West Centre in the business park between Monday, 14 and Friday, 18 April 2008.

There is also an active discussion on this website about the scheme here.