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 [...]

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We are delighted to announce that The Bradley Stoke Examiner has been nominated for Website of the Year in the prestigious EDF Energy South West Media Awards.
Previous winners of this catagory have included thisiswiltshire.co.uk and thisisexeter.co.uk from The Express and Echo newspaper.
The winner is due to be announced at an awards ceremony at the Steam [...]

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The forum area of the website is back up-and-running - but you’ll need to sign up again to chat.
Unfortunately we were unable to retrieve the posts and usernames from the previous setup - which we apologise for.
But it has given us the opportunity to upgrade the forum software to make it a bit more spam-proof: [...]

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If you can read this then you’re reading The Bradley Stoke Examiner on our brand new server - which we’re hoping will resolve some of the technical issues we’ve been having.
We’re still moving all the content over so if there are bits that aren’t working then leave a comment on this post and we’ll check [...]

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You might have noticed a few new features around the website - including improved search facilities and our new fancy mailing list.
If you want to search for a specific item we’ve published cast your eyes top right for that.
Subscribing will mean you are notified as soon as a new article is published. We promise we’ll [...]

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We’ve made some improvements to the Bradley Stoke Examiner - and we’d love to hear what you think.
We have ditched the more ‘traditional’ newspaper layout and taken on an easier-to-read blog style.
Now you can read all the latest news on one page or narrow down your interest by using the ‘tag cloud’.
We’ve made it easier [...]

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Find out about advertising on The Bradley Stoke Examiner - the town’s longest-running community website.

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