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• Wealthy benefactor has been Peter's salvation

  TWO years ago this week, profoundly deaf schoolboy Peter Schofield feared he would have to struggle along in a mainstream school - until Harrods' boss and multi-millionaire Mohammed Al Fayed and TV dream-maker Esther Rantzen stepped in. read more

• Film-makers plot a summer murder

  STROUD movie makers are plotting to film a murder next summer. read more

• Okworo powers his way to Stroud Half glory

  KENYAN international runner George Okworo was in a league of his own as he won the 20th Puma Stroud half-marathon last Sunday. read more

• Bus plans are 'second rate'

  STROUD'S plans for a temporary bus station have been condemned as second rate and worthy of nothing but a bunch of laughs. read more

• Fountain venue still uncertain

  PLANS to move Nailsworth's historic fountain are going ahead but the new venue is still uncertain. A cost feasibility study to restore the town's crumbling monument was carried out in 1997. read more

• Stroud forced to take defeat on the Chin-nor

  Chinnor 40, Stroud 15 read more

• Lift off for new netball club

  TRADITIONALLY netball is the number one team sport played by women, but the opportunities to learn and develop the sport outside of constricted PE lessons are hard to come by within Stroud. read more

• Christmas comes early for church

  BEAUTIFULLY painted panels dating back to the 1900s have been uncovered in a Stroud church. read more

• Howey uses his head to good effect

  Fisher Athletic 1, Forest Green Rovers 3 read more

• Making real improvements

  CALLOWELL School has come on leaps and bounds since its devastating Ofsted report in February last year. read more

• Fireworks go off with a bang

  EBLEY Fireworks went off with a bang on Monday night, shaking Stroud with a magnificent display in pyrotechnics. read more

• Legally Blonde

  LEGALLY BLONDE (12) read more

• Festival should be a real blast

  THERE'S an explosive new multimedia festival coming to Gloucester this November in the shape of Blast 2001. read more

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